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Beard, David
University of Minnesota Duluth (USA)
Research interests: History of Rhetoric, Literacy and Oral Communication Pedagogy. Disciplinarity.
Birinci, Meral
Research interests: Comics, Graphic Novels, Porn Studies, Culture Studies, History of Comics, Comics and Criticism
Czerwiec, MK
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL (USA)
Research interests: The intersection of medicine and comics, narrative medicine, oral history and comics, visual representations of natural death, the use of audio content in association with comics and learning.
Davies, Dominic
Univesity of Oxford, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Research interests: postcolonial comics, urban studies and urban comix, zine cultures, comics in the Global South, architecture and infrastructure in comics
Davies-Stofka, Beth
Excelsior College (USA)
Research interests: Comparative Religions and Theologies, Grassroots Resistance, Human Rights, Social Justice
Earle, Harriet
Birkbeck College, University of London, Department of English (UK)
Research interests: Representations of conflict and trauma in comics, representations of mental health, the Franco-Belgian comic tradition, graphic journalism, graphic memoir.
Edwards, Andrew
Glyndwr University (UK)
Research interests: Comics of all kinds, but particularly the work of Alan Moore and his collaborators.
El Refaie, Elisabeth
Cardiff University, Language and Communication (UK)
Research interests: My main research interests are in visual / multimodal forms of narrative in comics (especially autobiographical comics) and cartoons. I am also interested in visual metaphor, humour, multimodality, audience research, and media representations of cultural identity.
Gibson, Mel
University of Northumbria (UK)
Research interests: Audiences, gender, British girls’ comics, libraries and sequential art, children’s comics, graphic novels, formats, comics in education
Giddens, Thomas
St Mary’s University College (UK)
Research interests: Graphic Justice, law and comics
Grady, William
University of Dundee (UK)
Research interests: The Western, Comics, Film
Gray, Brenna Clarke
Douglas College (Canada)
Research interests: Canadian comics / graphic novels, twenty-first century North American literature, visual culture, September 11 studies, pop culture studies.
Gray, Maggie
Research interests: Alan Moore; British comics of the 1980s and early 1990s, riot grrrl, zines, underground comix, self-publishing and independent media, radical illustration, comics and fine art, Marxist aesthetics, feminism, anarchism, anti-capitalism/alter-globalisation, radical environmentalism, art activism.
Grennan, Simon
University of Chester (UK)
Research interests: visual narratology, participatory arts practice
Groenewald, Leorita
University of South Africa (South Africa)
Research interests: Graphic Narratives / Novels, Philosophy / Literary Theory (New Aestheticism), Photography
Grove, Laurence
University of Glasgow (UK)
Research interests: Historical approach to text/image forms
Hague, Ian
University of Chichester (UK)
Research interests: comics, graphic novels, materiality, media, senses, technology.
Harrison, Michael
Monmouth College (USA)
Research interests: 20th / 21st Century Peninsular Spanish Comics, Popular Culture/Media Studies (comics, television), Spanish Cultural Studies, Film Studies / Spanish Film, Queer Theory / Gender Theory , Superhero Studies
in ‘t Veld, Laurike
University of Chichester, Department of History & Politics, Department of Film & Media
Research interests: non-fictional comics, the representation of mass violence and genocide in popular culture, (Holo)kitsch
Kuhlman, Martha
Bryant University (USA)
Research interests: Central European Literature, Literary Theory, Graphic Novels
Laycock, Emily
Lancaster University (UK)
Research interests: religion, comics, graphic novels, popular culture, apocalypse, science fiction
Madill, Anna
University of Leeds (UK)
Research interests: Anna Madill is a critical social and health psychologist whose research is broadly in the area of ‘well-being’. Her current projects include British Academy funded research on Boys’ Love manga.
Miller, Ann
University of Leicester (UK)
Research interests: French-language comics, particularly those dealing with political, postcolonial and gender themes.
Murray, Chris
University of Dundee (UK)
Research interests: British Comics, Comics Theory, Film. Grant Morrison and Alan Moore
O’Neill, Christopher
Aston University (UK)
Research interests: Bande Dessinée in general, political cartooning, caricature, war in comics, representations of political figures in comics, France in the inter-war period.
Oksman, Tahneer
Marymount Manhattan College (USA)
Research interests: Comics and graphic novels; autobiography studies; women’s literature; visual culture; visual rhetoric; and writing pedagogy.
Pellegrin, Annick
University of Mauritius (Republic of Mauritius)
Research interests: Bandes dessinées (Franco-Belgian comics) and historietas (Latin American comics)
Priego, Ernesto
University College London (UK)
Research interests: comics scholarship, scholarly communications, electronic publishing, digital humanities, print culture, Latin American studies, media studies, digital engagement, citizen journalism, poetry.
Pylyser, Charlotte
Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium)
Research interests: The Flemish graphic novel in particular and issues of culture and context with regard to comics in general.
Rose, Tony
University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Sequoyah National Research Center (USA)
Research interests: Images of Native Americans in comics, the Cold War in comics, Arkansas history
Round, Julia
Bournemouth University (UK)
Research interests: Comics, gothic, fantastic, sf, children’s literature, adaptation, online reading
Sabeti, Shari
School of Education, University of Edinburgh
Research interests: Visual cultures, text, practices of reading and writing and pedagogies both inside and outside of formal educational institutions
Sabin, Roger
Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, University of the Arts London (UK)
Research interests: Comics of all kinds, but especially 19th century British comics.
Sanders, Joe Sutliff
Kansas State University (USA)
Research interests: Comics, graphic novels, manga, Hergé, Urasawa, critical engagement, fantasy, science fiction, girls’ fiction, picture books.
Scott, Cord
Loyola University Chicago & Triton College (River Grove IL) (USA)
Research interests: Military history – specifically armed forces cartoons for the services, American culture
Shamoon, Deborah
National University of Singapore, Department of Japanese Studies (Singapore)
Research interests: Modern Japanese literature and film, Japanese manga (comics) and anime (animation), romance comics, illustration, gender studies, pedagogy of popular culture
Smith, Matt
Department of Communication, Wittenberg University (USA)
Research interests: Fan studies; Auteur theory (including focuses on Alan Moore, Geoff Johns, and John Byrne); Comics history
Sommers, Joseph Michael
Central Michigan University (USA)
Research interests: Children’s and Young Adult Literature, British and American Late-Nineteenth through Twenty First-Century Literature and Culture, Bakhtinian /Narrative Theory, Comic and Pop Cultural Studies
Spanjers, Rik
Research interests: Comic book studies, Manga studies, Philosophy, Narratology, Historiography, Intermediality
de Syon, Guillaume
Albright College (USA)
Research interests: cultural history of aviation, comics and history, Europe in the World Wars
Tannahill, Lise
Stirling Maxwell Centre for the Study of Text/Image Cultures, University of Glasgow
Research interests: Bande dessinée in general, Brittany, Corsica, gender issues in comics, war in comics, Bécassine, minority identity issues.
Turnes, Pablo
Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Research interests: Comics and Aesthetics, Art Philosophy, History.
Valente, Alex
University of East Anglia (UK)
Research interests: multimodality, translation studies, literary translation, comics studies, comparative comics studies, comparative literature
Wilkins, Peter
Douglas College (Canada)
Research interests: Comics and Skills Training, Comics and Aesthetics, Apocalyptic Narratives, Narratives of Masculinity, Technology.
Williams, Paul
University of Exeter (UK)
Research interests: The graphic novel of the 1970s and early 1980s; comics and literary respectability; theories of race, ethnicity, and representation; critical theories of the Cold War and the War on Terror; politics and American hip-hop, 2001 to 2008; science fiction film and literature, especially future-war fiction and post-apocalyptic fiction.
Worcester, Kent
Marymount Manhattan College (USA)
Research interests: The politics of popular culture; representations of 9/11; intellectuals and popular culture.
Wright, David N.
Douglas College (Canada)
Research interests: Modernism, Comics, Digital Humanities, Other cultural, artistic, historical stuff
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