Shannon Brownlee is an Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies/Gender and Women’s Studies at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, where she is the Associate Director of the Cinema and Media Studies program. Her research specialties are animation and adaptation. Publications on animation include work on LEGO stop-motion animation in Film Criticism (Special Issue ed. Stephen Groening, 2016) and Cultural Studies of LEGO: More Than Just Bricks (eds. Rebecca Hains and Sharon Mazzarella, 2019). She also works actively in public outreach, delivering talks to non-academic audiences and serving on festival boards such as that of the Animation Festival of Halifax.