Books

Affect and Embodied Meaning in Animation: Becoming Animated. New York: Routledge 2018.

Edited Volumes

Guest editor. Special Issue Modes of Existence, Mechademia Second Arc 15.1 (Dec 2022)

Guest editor. Special Issue Animating Space and Scalar Travels animation: an interdisciplinary journal 9.2 (July 2014)

Refereed Journal Articles

“Scalar Travel Documentaries: Animating the Limits of the Body and Life.” animation: an interdisciplinary journal 9.2 (July 2014): 138-158.

“Cinema and the Two Cultures: Robert Lepage’s La face cachée de la lune.” New Review of Film and Television Studies 8.4 (December 2010): 372-395.

“Historical Interculturalism in Robert Lepage’s Elsinore.” Contemporary Theatre Review 20.1 (April 2010): 40-55.

“Cyborg Brains in Robert Lepage’s Possible Worlds.” Screen 50.4 (December 2009): 392-410.

“La théâtralité cinématographique engagée.” [Committed Filmic Theatricality.] Nouvelles «vues» sur le cinéma québécois 8 (Winter 2008): 1-29.

“La dualité sexuelle d’Hamlet et ses représentations.” [Hamlet’s Sexual Duality and its Representations.] Dire: La revue des cycles supérieurs de l’Université de Montréal 14.3 (Spring 2005): 42-45.

Book Chapters

“Le cinéma de Denis Villeneuve et les figures du double.” [The Cinema of Denis Villeneuve and the motif of the double.] Regards croisés sur Incendies. Du théâtre de Mouawad au cinéma de Villeneuve. Eds. Sébastien Fevry, Serge Goriely and Arnaud Join-Lambert. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2016.

“Committed Theatricality.” Stages of Reality: Theatricality in Cinema. Eds. André Loiselle and Jeremy Maron. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.

“Adaptation as Confession in Robert Lepage’s Le confessionnal.” From Camera Lens to Critical Lens: A Collection of Best Essays on Film Adaptation. Ed. Rebecca Housel. London: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006. 73-90.

Book Reviews

“Freda Chapple et Chiel Kattenbelt (dir.), Intermediality in Theatre and Performance.” L’Annuaire théâtral 45 (Spring 2010): 201-206.

“Aleksandar Dundjerovic. The Cinema of Robert Lepage: The Poetics of Memory.” Nouvelles «vues» sur le cinéma québécois 2 (Fall 2004): 1-5.

Other Publications

“Introduction to the Special Issue: Animating Space and Scalar Travels.” animation: an interdisciplinary journal 9.2 (July 2014): 117-123.

“Québec / USA, culture de substitution: les tournages étrangers au Québec.” [Quebec/USA, Substitution Culture: Foreign Films Made in Quebec. ] Nouvelles «vues» sur le cinéma québécois 3 (Winter 2005): 1-12.

“Dualités poétiques de Robert Lepage.” [Poetic Dualities of Robert Lepage.] La Revue de la Cinémathèque 89 (Sept-Dec 2007): 19.

Interview

Interview. Nicoud, Anabelle. “Cinq questions à… Sylvie Bissonnette. Critique de cinéma et spécialiste de Robert Lepage.” [Five Questions To… Sylvie Bissonnette. Cinema Critic and Specialist of Robert Lepage.] La Presse, Montreal, November 24, 2007, Cinéma, p.14.

Selected Conference Participations

Panels Organized

“Playing with Life in Video Games”, The Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA), September 28, 2012. (Panel co-organizer with Olivia Banner: Nonhuman Animation and the Digital Danse Macabre)

“Scalar Travels: Animating the Limits of the Body and Life”, The Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Boston, March 22, 2012. (Panel organizer: Animating Space and Scalar Travels)

“Hybrid Citizens in Cyberpunk Animation”, The Society for Cinema and Media Studies, New Orleans, March 10, 2011. (Panel organizer: “Animated Citizenship”)

“Posthumanist Resistance: Documenting the Conquest of Outer Space and Inner Space”, The Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA), Charlotte, North Carolina, November 15, 2008. (Panel co-organizer with Colin Milburn: “Posthuman Mediations”)

“Double Identity: Cross-casting in Robert Lepage’s Nô”, Film Studies Association of Canada (FSAC), Vancouver, Ontario, June 3, 2008. (Panel organizer: “Cinema and Its Double: Robert Lepage’s Stages and Screens”)

Papers Presented

“Character Engagement, Storytelling, and Uncanny Effects in Animation”, SCSMI, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, June 13, 2014.

“Remediating Lightning Sketch Films: From Early Animation to Recent Multimedia
Performances”, The Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, March 2013.

“Translation and Remediation in Contemporary Intermedial Theatre”, Association of Comparative Literature of America, Vancouver, April 1, 2011.

“Life and Posthuman Metamorphoses in Animation”, The Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA), Indianapolis, October 29, 2010.

“The Two Cultures in Robert Lepage’s La face cachée de la lune (Far Side of the Moon)”, The Western Canadian Studies Association: Canadian Studies: On the Edge, Davis, February 20, 2009.

“Magic and Adaptation: The Illusionist and The Prestige”, 2008 Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations (PCA/ACA), San Francisco, March 21, 2008.

“Poetic Vision of Complexity in Robert Lepage’s Films”, Quebec Cinema Conference, Glasgow, March 22, 2007.

“Fiction in Local Films Shot in Quebec in 1908”, Avènement du cinéma en Amérique du Nord (1893-1909), Godin Hotel, Montreal, November 28, 2006.

“Historical Interculturalism in Robert Lepage’s Elsinore”, First International Conference on Robert Lepage, Canada House, London, June 2, 2006.