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Carmen Hannibal is a researcher and scholar affiliated with the Royal College of Art (RCA), School of Communication. Her work focuses on metaphorical dimensions in experimental animation, blending animation studies with hermeneutics, philosophy, and media theory. She holds an MA in Animation Production from Arts University Bournemouth (2014) and a BA in Character Animation from The Animation Workshop (2013).
Her research explores how metaphor functions in animated films to create new meaning, drawing on interdisciplinary methods from phenomenology and Ricoeurian hermeneutics. Key areas include the intersection of metaphor, metamorphosis, and animation aesthetics, with analyses of works like Conner Griffith’s Auto (2016). She emphasizes methodological innovation in interpreting animated shorts through a lens that bridges visual imagery and philosophical inquiry.
In 2020, she founded the Society for Animation Studies’ FMM-Animation SIG, dedicated to figurative meaning and metamorphosis in animation. This initiative supports interdisciplinary dialogue on symbolism, metaphor, and linguistic tropes in animation.
Her publications span peer-reviewed journals (Animation Studies Online Journal), edited blog series (animationstudies 2.0), and cultural criticism (Fantasy/Animation). She collaborates with leading scholars like Professors Suzanne Buchan and Clive Cazeaux as part of her PhD research, which aims to establish a theoretical framework for analyzing metaphor in experimental animation.
