Animation, Collectibles, Graphic Design, Illustration, Pop Culture, Science Fiction
With past clients including Warner Brothers, D.C. Comics, Marvel, Disney and others, as well as writing and illustrating four children's books to his name, Rich Hilliard has experience in all areas of illustration and animation. He has also aided in the creation and study of collectibles. His interests lie in pop culture, science fiction, horror culture and historic space flight.
Past clients: Warner Bros. Studios, Ford Motor Co., Universal Studios, DC Comics, Lucasfilm Ltd. Licensed Products, Paramount Pictures, Marvel Comics.
He recieved his master's of fine arts from the University of Hartford Art School, his master's from Syracuse University, and his bachelor's of fine arts from Pratt Institute.
Animal Studies, Science Fiction, Semantic
Holly Yanacek is associate professor of German at JMU. Her research focuses on 19th- to 21st-century Germanophone literature and culture, emotion studies, narrative theory, gender studies, and posthumanism. Yanacek co-edited the interdisciplinary volume (DeGruyter, 2021), which examines the affective relationships between humans and non-human animals, robots, and machines in modern German cultural history. She is a member of the Keywords Project () and, together with Colin MacCabe, co-edited the collaborative book published by Oxford University Press in 2018.
Yanacek is currently finishing the manuscript for a monograph on the renegotiation of social and moral emotions in fin-de-siècle German literature. She is also working on an English translation of Ich bin dein Mensch (2019), a novella by award-winning contemporary German author , whose work served as the inspiration for Maria Schrader’s 2021 prize-winning film .
Yanacek earned her doctorate and master's in German studies at the University of Pittsburgh and her bachelor's in German at Heidelberg University. She also studied in Germany as a DAAD Undergraduate Scholar at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and as a Fulbright Graduate Research Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin.