Sylvie Bissonnette researches the boundaries between humans and nonhumans and the cultural relations between science and cinema. She writes widely on animation, film adaptation, and Quebec cinema. She has also created multimedia performances.
Sylvie published the book Affect and Embodied Meaning in Animation: Becoming Animated with Routledge. She is currently working on a book project on insect affect and ecology in animation. A second book in progress draws on microperformativity and Bruno Latour’s concept of modes of existence to analyze viewer engagement with science in cinema.
Work published includes articles in animation: an interdisciplinary journal, Screen, The New Review of Film and Television Studies, The Contemporary Theatre Review, and NVCQ. Sylvie guest edited the issue 15.1 Modes of Existence published in 2022 in of Mechademia Second Arc and the special issue on “Animating Space and Scalar Travels” published in Spring 2014 in animation: an interdisciplinary journal. A book chapter on theatricality in filmic adaptations of Quebec plays appeared in Stages of Reality and a chapter on film adaptation as confession was published in From Camera Lens to Critical Lens. In addition, her book chapter on the films of Denis Villeneuve is part of the edited collection Regards croisés sur Incendies.