Hannah Frank teaches courses on the history of animation, Russian and Soviet cinema, and special effects. She is at work on a book manuscript on the visual aesthetics of popular American animated cartoons of the mid-20th century. Her other research interests include films and videos that reside at the intersection of documentary, the avant-garde, and animation, particularly those that make use of found footage and optical effects; Sergei Eisenstein’s film theory and film practice, but especially his drawings; the philosophical pragmatism of Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey; and the theory (and theology) of media and technology. She is also an experimental animator.
