Lisa Buchegger

Lisa Buchegger is currently a PhD student (English and American studies) at Graz University, Austria, working as a pre-doc assistant at the Department of American Studies. Her main research interests are (American) film studies, children’s entertainment (e.g., animation and fairy tales), as well as gender and minority studies. Her bachelor’s thesis had the title “It’s Good to Be Bad: The Performance of Villainy in Disney’s Frozen and Zootopia,” while her master’s thesis, titled “The Fairest One of All: Appearance and Body Images in Disney’s Feature Films,” tackled beauty ideals through the lens of Disney productions. It came out, in a revised and enhanced version, in the form of a book in 2023. For her PhD project, she is working on the construction of villains in American film and television. Outside academia, her biggest passions are singing and acting.