Jacqueline Ristola is a Lecturer in the Department of Film and Television in the School of Arts. She received her PhD in Film and Moving Image Studies from Concordia University, Montréal. Her research areas include animation/anime studies, media industry studies, and queer representation.

She has published journal articles and book chapters in film and media studies, with an emphasis on animation across both content and platforms. Jacqueline’s scholarship has appeared in Digital Society, Television and New Media, Kinephanos: Journal of Media Studies and Pop Culture, Con A de animación, and Animation Studies Online Journal, where she was awarded the inaugural Maureen Furniss Student Essay Award. She also co-edited special issues on Studio and Ghibli and LGBTQ Animation for Mechademia: Second Arc and Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies, respectively, and has chapters in edited collections on Steven Universe, Bojack Horseman, and Barbie media.


Jacqueline is an editorial board member for Animation Studies and Bloomsbury’s Animation: Key Films/Filmmakers book series, and is asked regularly to peer-review manuscripts for leading journals and academic presses. She has delivered papers and workshops, as well as a keynote talk, at a range of academic conferences.

Jacqueline supervises a number of PhDs, and welcomes inquiries from prospective PhD students on topics relating to her research interests.