Laurence Grove

Dr Laurence Grove

Reader in French, University of Glasgow

Director, Stirling Maxwell Centre for the Study of Text/Image Cultures, University of Glasgow

Contact Details

Email: Laurence.grove@glasgow.ac.uk

Telephone: 0044 141 330 6350

Postal Address: Hetherington Building, Bute Gardens, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QR, Scotland

Website: http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/mlc/staff/laurencegrove/ (university staff page)

Biography and Research Interests

Laurence Grove is Reader and Director of Programmes in French and Director of the Stirling Maxwell Centre for the Study of Text/Image Cultures at the University of Glasgow.  His research focuses on historical aspects of text/image forms, and in particular bande dessinée.  He is President of the International Bande Dessinée Society (‘www.arts.gla.ac.uk/ibds’).  As well as serving on the consultative committees of a number of journals, he is general editor of Glasgow Emblem Studies, and co-editor of European Comic Art.  Laurence Grove has authored (in full, jointly or as editor) nine books and approximately forty chapters or articles.

Research Interests: Historical approach to text/image forms

Publications

http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/mlc/staff/laurencegrove/