Dr Dan Torre is Senior Lecturer in Animation in the School of Design at RMIT, where he teaches and researches in the areas of art and design; animation studies (animation practice, history, theory and philosophy); literature; media (digital media, comics, games, radio, film); new technologies, historic technologies; philosophical inquiry, process philosophy and ecological philosophy; plant studies and plant humanities; plant sciences; posthumanities; creative environmental and regenerative studies.

Dan has published numerous books, chapters and peer-reviewed articles across a range of fields. His recent authored and co-authored books include The History and Theory of Cut-out Animation (Bloomsbury, forthcoming); Orchid (Reaktion Books, 2023), Grendel Grendel Grendel – Animating Beowulf (Bloomsbury 2021), Carnivorous Plants (Reaktion Books, 2019), Australian Animation – An International History (Palgrave, 2018), Cactus (Reaktion Books, 2017), Animation – Process, Cognition and Actuality (Bloomsbury, 2017).