Kara Lynn Andersen

With expertise in the areas of animation history and theory, video game studies and American film, Kara Lynn Andersen brings an interdisciplinary and academic approach to cinema studies. 

Credentials

• Assistant Professor at the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at Brooklyn College, 2015-19
• Assistant Professor at Brooklyn College CUNY, 2010-19
• Faculty at Pittsburgh Filmmakers, 2006-07
• Dissertation: Immaterial Materiality: Collecting in Live-Action Film, Animation and Digital Games. Director: Lucy Fischer. Readers: Marcia Landy, Adam Lowenstein, Randall Halle.

Publications

• “The Lego® Movies, A Lego® Collector, and the Problem with Representations of Collecting in Film.” Recollecting Collecting: A Film and Media Perspective. Lucy Fischer, ed. Wayne State UP. 2023.
• "European Horror Games: Little Red Riding Hood's Zombie BBQ and the European Game Industry." Kara Lynn Andersen and Karra Shimabukuro. Fragmented Nightmares: Transnational Horror Across Visual Media. Eds. Dana Och and Kirsten Strayer. New York: Routledge, 2013.
• “My Stockings. Lip Them”: Consuming Japan Through Film and Video Games. Post Script Special Issue: Japanese Popular Culture in Films, Spring/Winter 2009.
• “Harry Potter and the Susceptible Child Audience,” published in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture. Vol. 7.2, 2005.
• “The Sims Series.” Encyclopedia of Video Games: The Culture, Technology, and Art of Gaming, 2nd edition. Ed. Mark J.P. Wolf. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group. 2021.
• Girls’ Games.” Encyclopedia of Video Games: The Culture, Technology, and Art of Gaming, 2nd edition. Ed. Mark J.P. Wolf. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group. 2012 (1st edition) & 2021 (revision for 2nd edition).
• “Animal Crossing.” Encyclopedia of Video Games: The Culture, Technology, and Art of Gaming, 2nd edition. Ed. Mark J.P. Wolf. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group. 2012 (1st edition) & 2021 (revision for 2nd edition).
• “Girls’ Games.” Encyclopedia of Video Games: The Culture, Technology, and Art of Gaming. Ed. Mark J.P. Wolf. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group. 2012.
• “Animal Crossing.” Encyclopedia of Video Games: The Culture, Technology, and Art of Gaming. Ed. Mark J.P. Wolf. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group. 2012.

Presentations

• “Uncomfortable Spaces: Niki Lindroth von Bahr and Environmental Psychology.” Society for Animation Studies Conference. Rowan University (June 13, 2023).
• “Shhhhhhh!: The Circulation of Among Us-Themed Fan Animation in 2020.” Society for Animation Studies Conference, (June 15, 2021, online).
• “’You're Not that Kind of Predator’: Racialized Voice Acting and Transracial Voice Casting in Animation.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Seattle, Washington (March 14, 2019).
• “‘Take This Cage of Snakes and Throw It at Her’: Cartoon Aesthetics in the films of Stephen Chow.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Toronto, Canada (March 17, 2018).

Organizations

• Society for Animation Studies
• Society for Cinema and Media Studies