Laura Pontieri

Laura PontieriLaura Pontieri (Ph.D. Yale University) is a researcher on Russian cinema and European animation. She taught Soviet cinema and animation at the University of Toronto for many years, and she is currently working on a monograph on the renown Russian director Fedor Khitruk. She is the author of the book Soviet Animation and The Thaw of the 1960s. Not Only for Children (2012), as well as several articles on Russian and Czech animation.