Casey Riffel
	Program	PhD candidate (entered 2006)
	Education	BA Interdisciplinary Humanities (Stanford) MA Sociology (Stanford)
	Dissertation	A Line of Escape: Animals, Animation, Modernity
	Advisor(s)	Akira Lippit (Chair)
	Interests	animal studies; history & theory of animation; critical theory; visual studies; history & theory of technology; early and proto-cinema
	Website	usc.academia.edu/CaseyRiffel