Nic Sammond

Nic Sammond is the author of Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation (Duke University Press, 2015) and Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930-1960 (Duke University Press, 2005). Nic’s current project, on abjection and resistance, includes the volume Abjection Incorporated (Duke University Press, 2019), edited with Maggie Hennefeld, and the forthcoming monograph Fluid Resistance, which explores the practices and performances and of abjection in Cold War vernacular media, including animation and comics/comix. He has published widely, including in Feminist Media Histories, Film History, Camera Obscura and WSQ.