Laura Pontieri Author

Laura Pontieri (Ph.D. Yale University, 2006) taught Soviet cinema and European animation at the University of Toronto for many years, appeared as a speaker at various events, and published several articles and reviews on Russian and Czech animation in North American and European journals. She is the editor of the Russian animation section of Directory of World Cinema: Russia 2 (Intellect, 2015) and the author of the book Soviet Animation and the Thaw of the 1960s. Not Only for Children (John Libbey Publishing, 2012).