UTD Mercury Profiles Crispin Freeman
Humberto Saabedra
The UTD Mercury collegiate student newspaper has published an in-depth profile on noted voice actor Crispin Freeman and his growing body of scholastic work regarding the study of anime as an art form.
The voice actor was also a guest lecturer for the class “The Anime Fantasy of Hayao Miyazaki” which is taught by Marc Hairston, who teaches the Miyazaki course with Arts & Humanities associate professor Pamela Gossin at the University of Texas Dallas.
The voice actor recently conducted a lecture on April 14th titled “Mystics, Priestesses and Warrior Women,” which dealt with gender roles in Japan and America as reflected through anime and manga while pondering the significance of certain roles which are consistently the domain of female characters, such as the priestess and the magical girl while examining the significance of such roles in terms of mythology.
