Maureen Furniss, Ph.D.

Adjunct Faculty

213.740.3986
mfurniss@calarts.edu
LPB 200

Dr. Maureen Furniss is founding editor of Animation Journal, the first peer-reviewed scholarly journal devoted to animation history, theory, and criticism. She teaches animation students about the world of visual effects at USC.

She is author of Art in Motion: Animation Aesthetics (John Libbey, 1998) and the forthcoming  Art of Animating, from Flipbooks to Flash (Harry N. Abrams, 2008), and she has edited other animation-related books. She has been invited to lecture on animation internationally and her essays appear in many animation-related anthologies.

Dr. Furniss holds degrees in film production as well as a Ph.D. in Critical Studies from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. She is also on the faculty of the School of Film and Video at California Institute of the Arts.