Dr Kevin Chew
College
Gonville and Caius
Supervisor
Dr Laura McMahon
About
I successfully defended my PhD thesis, entitled ‘A Place Called Slaughter Race’: Spectres of conflict in contemporary Disney animation, in October 2020. My research interests encompass critical theory, animal studies, ecocriticism and the interplay between military history and cinema.
Research
Political conflict in recent Disney animation
Scholarships/Prizes
Gates Cambridge Scholar
Teaching
CS6: European Film (University of Cambridge).
Previously taught a module on Theorising Spectatorship at Anglia Ruskin University.
Conference papers
‘“Fish pee in you”: An oceanic politics in Disney’s Moana’, at the Screen Studies Conference, Glasgow, 28 – 30 June 2019
‘From the Bronze Age to Bambi: animal and material agencies in processes of conceptualization through illustration’, with Joanna Lawrence, at the Theoretical Archaeology Group Annual Conference, Chester, 17–19 December 2018
‘On War and Cuteness: The utopian politics of Disney’s Zootopia’, at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Toronto, 14 – 18 March 2018
Publications
‘“Humanity rising from the depths of brine”: An oceanic politics in Disney’s Moana’, forthcoming in The New Review of Film and Television Studies
‘On War and Cuteness: The utopian politics of Disney’s Zootopia’, in Screen, Volume 60, Issue 4 (Winter 2019)
