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Sandra Annett serves as Associate Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies within the Faculty of Arts at Wilfrid Laurier University, where she has been the Film Studies Program's resident specialist in digital and new media studies since 2011.
Her academic credentials include:
- PhD in English and Film Studies, University of Manitoba (2011)
- MA in English, Queen's University (2006)
- BA in Honours English, Dalhousie University (2004)
Dr. Annett's research examines how visual media technologies from celluloid to social networks shape audience interpretation, creative production, and cross-cultural connections. Her expertise spans digital new media, animated film, anime/manga studies, transcultural fan communities, Japanese popular culture, and postcolonial media theory. She is author of the seminal work Anime Fan Communities: Transcultural Flows and Frictions (2014), which analyzes global anime fandom dynamics.
She teaches core courses in Animated Film, Digital New Media, and Japanese Film while supervising graduate research. Fluent in English, French, and Japanese, she maintains regular office hours for student consultation. No scientific awards are documented in the source material, though her scholarship significantly advances interdisciplinary media and cultural studies.
