Anandha Lekshmi is a PhD student at The University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Radio-Television-Film. She completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s (Silver Medalist) in English Literature from St. Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad, India. Her research interests include animation studies with a special focus on Indian animation. Anandha Lekshmi believes in democratizing access to higher education for everyone, especially individuals from marginalized communities in India, so feel free to email her for guidance and support on applying to MA and PhD programs. She also has a cat named Mani.

Kelly Daniela Norris is a doctoral student in the Radio-Television-Film department at The University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on silent serial stuntwomen from the 1910s, with attention to the fantastical, death-defiance of the female body alongside the momentum of First Wave Feminism and the Suffragette Movement. Her other interests include: Post-colonialism and guerrilla cinemas, arthouse cinema, and the avant-garde. In tandem with her academic work, Daniela is also an independent filmmaker. In 2017, she was selected for Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 Faces of Independent Filmmaking”, and her second narrative feature, NAKOM, premiered at Berlinale, and was nominated for the ‘John Cassavetes Award’ at the Independent Spirit Awards. She earned her M.A. in Film and Media from the University of California - Berkeley, and holds a B.A. in Film Studies and Psychology (double major) from Columbia University in the City of New York.