Kirsten Moana Thompson

About Kirsten

Kirsten Moana Thompson is Professor of Film and Media and former Chair at Seattle University. Previously, she Chaired the Departments of Film at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand and Wayne State University in Detroit. She teaches and writes on the history of animation and useful animation; color studies; New Zealand and Pacific studies; classical Hollywood cinema and German cinema.

She is the co-editor with Malcolm Cook of Animation and Advertising (2019, Palgrave), and author of Crime Films: Investigating the Scene (Wallflower, 2007); Apocalyptic Dread: American Cinema at the Turn of the Millennium (SUNY Press, 2007); and with Terri Ginsberg, coeditor of Perspectives on German Cinema (GK Hall: NY, 1996). She is currently working on several new books including Animated America: Intermedial Promotion from Times Square to Walt Disney and Color, Visual Culture and Animation.

Qualifications

PhD, Cinema Studies
New York University

MA (First Class Honors), English Literature
University of Auckland

BA, English Literature and History
University of Auckland