Jana Rogoff teaches animation studies and eco-media theory at the Charles University in Prague. In her research, she develops ecocritical and ecomaterialist perspectives on animation (especially in connection to the perspective of blue humanities) and addresses issues of sustainability in the animation industry. She defended her doctoral thesis on early film sound in Soviet cinematography at Humboldt University in Berlin. From 2018 to 2024, she was the principal investigator of a DFG research project focused on animation in the former socialist bloc, with an emphasis on issues of space and the environment. In 2023, she co-organized the interdisciplinary conference Hydropoetics: Ecocritical Perspectives on Eastern European Arts (1960s-1990s). The outcomes are being prepared for publication by Berlin-based Transcript publishing. As a guest professor at the Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, Rogoff focused on Eastern European animation as a medium of environmental communication and co-organized the conference Animation, Green Storytelling, and Sustainable Production. Her texts have been published in a number of international anthologies and peer-reviewed journals, including Apparatus, Iluminace, Animation Studies Journal, and International Journal for Film and Media Art. She has taught at universities in Germany, US, and the Czech Republic. In 2017, she became a member of the Society for Animation Studies. Since 2023, she has been a member of the Research Group for Environmental Humanities at Charles University.
janarogoff@gmail.com
