Nichola Dobson / Independent Scholar

Nichola Dobson is an independent scholar based in Scotland. She received her PhD from Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh in 2004 where she also lectured in Media Studies. Her thesis was on “The Fall and Rise of the Anicom: the Sitcom Genre in U.S. TV Animation (1960 – 2003)”. She is currently lecturing at Glasgow Caledonian University on Discourse and Ideology and researching and writing a book on animation in her spare time. She is the editor of the Society for Animation Studies’ peer reviewed online journal Animation Studies and is starting to follow up her PhD research on TV animation. Other research interests include film and television genre, film and television comedy, media studies, digital media and crime fiction. She has published articles in several journals and recently contributed to an edited collection, The CSI Effect: Television, Crime and Critical Theory (forthcoming, Lexington).