Isabel Galwey is a writer and researcher currently based in Oxford, UK. She has a foundation diploma in art and design from Leeds Arts University, a BA in Chinese studies, and an MPhil in film and animation studies from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. After working as a software developer for a few years, in 2025 Isabel began her PhD thanks to a Clarendon Scholarship from the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on disrupted boundaries between the human and non-human in contemporary Chinese literature and visual culture. Her academic work includes a chapter on Hong Kong independent animation in Chinese Animation: Multiplicities in Motion (Harvard University Press, 2025), contributing translation of essays by Chinese animators in Chinese Animation and Socialism: from Animators' Perspectives (Brill, 2022) and a forthcoming section in the Bloomsbury encyclopaedia of animation studies.
