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Ahmed, Maaheen
Ghent University
maaheen.ahmed@ugent.be
Research Interests: comics studies, comics history, comics memory, comics magazines, children, childhood, childishness and comics
https://research.flw.ugent.be/en/maaheen.ahmed
@COMICSUGent

Anderson, Brianna
University of Florida
brianna.anderson@ufl.edu
Research Interests: Children’s and young adult comics, ecocriticism, narrative theory, picture books, digital humanities

Anderson, Patricia F
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
PFA@UMICH.EDU
Research Interests: Graphic medicine; disability representation; visual literacy; comics peer review for academic and scholarly publication in the sciences; design thinking and rapid prototyping for comics storytelling in teaching
http://about.me/pfanderson
@pfanderson

Antola, Laura
University of Turku, Finland
lahean@utu.fi
Research Interests: Superherores, adaptation, fan studies, comics and society
https://comicsandsociety.wordpress.com/
@LauraAntola

Aramburu Villavisencio, Andrea
University of Cambridge
aa2056@cam.ac.uk
Research Interests: Women’s and non binary Latin American comics; Affect theory; New Materialism; Posthumanism; Theories of intimacy and care
@andreabcdeffff

Austin, Hailey
University of Dundee
h.z.austin@dundee.ac.uk
Research Interests: Anthropomorphism, animal comics, and trauma; Female agency (especially with Jane Foster’s Thor); Music in comics (Blacksad); Transmedia
@HaileyJayAustin

Ayres, Andrea
Freelance journalist
afayres@gmail.com
Research Interests: Visual rhetoric, narrative immersion, history of comics
https://ayres-deets.com
@missafayres

Babb, Tiffany
The New School, PanelxPanel, The MNT
tbabb0621@gmail.com
Research Interests: Constraints and structure of ongoing serials, circular narratives, character/IP-centric storytelling, superhero comics
http://www.tiffanybabb.com
@explodingarrow

Blank, Juliane
Saarland University, Germany
juliane.blank@uni-saarland.de
Research Interests: Adaptation, comics and visual arts, comparative comics studies, history of the term “graphic novel”, representations of power and gender hierarchies, visual narratology
https://jueblank.wordpress.com/
@jul_blank

Blenk, Jenny
Independent scholar/Dark Horse Comics
blenkjr@gmail.com
Research Interests: comics studies; graphic medicine; disability studies; queer studies; feminist studies
@JennyBlenk

Bumatay, Michelle
Florida State University
mbumatay@fsu.edu
Research Interests: My research focuses on bandes dessinées (French-language comics) by cartoonists from Africa and the Diaspora and investigates the verbal-visual strategies at work in such bandes dessinées
https://mbumatay.com/
@M_Bumatay

Burdock, Maureen
University of California, Davis
mburdock@ucdavis.edu
Research Interests: Autographics/autobiographical comics; comics and memory; comics in response to war, trauma, and migration; women in comics; graphic medicine
http://www.maureenburdock.com
@BurdockArt

Caroccio Maldonado, Jennifer
Rutgers University-Newark
j.caroccio@rutgers.edu
Research Interests: I research US Latinx graphic memoirs and comic biographies. I look at how personal/individual stores can be used as counter-narratives that contest official histories
https://jennifercaroccio.com
@jcaroccio

Cauich Maldonado, Lenny M.
Ohio University
lc451514@ohio.edu
Research Interests: Artivism, feminism, political cartoons, cultural production, social media analytics, Latin American studies, journalism, mass communication

Cedeira Serrantes, Lucia
University of Western Ontario
lcedeir@uwo.ca
Research Interests: Comics readers, reading, and readership; comics and libraries/librarianship; comics culture, international comics
https://www.fims.uwo.ca/people/profiles/lucia_cedeira_serantes.html
@youthreading

Chivington, Lauren
lilchivi@gmail.com
Research Interests: Comics, LGBTQIA+, disability, trauma, theory
@laurenchivingt1

Chung, Erika
Ryerson University and York University
erika.chung@ryerson.ca
Research Interests: Fan studies, comic studies, popular culture, critical race theory, feminism and gender studies
@erikachung182

Cocca, Carolyn
State University of New York at Old Westbury
coccac@oldwestbury.edu
Research Interests: superheroes, feminist theories, women’s and gender studies, politics, activism, social justice
@carolyncocca

Coody, Elizabeth
Morningside College
coodye@morningside.edu
Research Interests: Religion and Comics, including especially relationships of comics to Bible, broadly and in particular the gospels; gender, including everyone; religious uses of comics; and cultural studies/ literary theory/ close reading techniques as applied to comics
http://www.elizabethcoody.com
@ecoody

Cortsen, Rikke Platz
University of Texas, Austin
rpcortsen@austin.utexas.edu
Research Interests: time and space in comics, Nordic comics, women, identity and representation in comics, immigration and comics, metal music and comics, theory and practice in comics
http://rpcortsen.com/
@rpcortsen

Crist-Wagner, Keri
Clemson University
kjcristwagner@gmail.com
Research Interests: Comic books in college classrooms, critical pedagogy, intersectionality, queer comics, queer WoC comics
@devil_longbtm

Cruz, Rachelle
University of California, Riverside
rachelle.a.cruz@gmail.com
Research Interests: poetry comics; non-fiction manga; Filipinx comics production; webcomics; queer comics; Filipinx and Asian American representation in comics
https://www.rachellecruz.com/
@rawqeli

Dallacqua, Ashley K.
University of New Mexico
adallacqua@unm.edu
Research Interests: literacy, comics, working and researching in local high schools, co-planning and co-teaching with comics and other unconventional “academic” texts, integrating these texts into regular curricula. I’m interested in the ways comics and support, but also challenge learning spaces. I am also very interested in representation in comics, particular in terms of gender

Davis, Jonita
Independent Scholar
bylinesbyjo@gmail.com
Research Interests: Afrofuturism, narrative, transmedia storytelling, fandoms
http://jonitadavis.com
@JonitaLDavis

DeRoss, Jennifer
Lane Community College
jennifer.deross@yahoo.com
Research Interests: Comic Studies, Biographical Studies, Multi-platform Storytelling, Queer Studies, and Fandom Studies
@JenniferDeRoss

Domoney-Lyttle, Zanne
University of Glasgow
zanne.domoney-lyttle@glasgow.ac.uk
Research interests: Bible, religion and comics; identity, representation and comics; gender and comics
@zannedlyttle

Earle, Monalesia
Independent Researcher
soho2paris@gmail.com
Research Interests: queer, gender, black and latinx studies, literary fiction, graphic narratives, afro-futurism, gothic.
@MonalesiaE

Eggert, Barbara “Eggy”
University for Art and Design, Linz, Austria
barbara-margarethe.eggert@ufg.at
Research Interests: comics theory // comic museums & comic exhibitions // comics as art // transspecies communication in comics // comics that feature San Francisco// Barbarella // comics in educational contexts // comics on dance-related issues // comics & textiles
https://www.ufg.at/Barbara-Margarethe-Eggert.15253+M54a708de802.0.htmhttps://www.ufg.at/Barbara-Margarethe-Eggert.15253+M54a708de802.0.html;%20anteater-comic.net
@BarbaraMEggert1

Fabricius, Charlotte Johanne
University of Southern Denmark
cjf@sdu.dk
Research Interests: The politics of identity and representation; girls in superhero comics; comics and critical theory; affect and aesthetics.
@CharlotteJFab

Figueiredo, Camila
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil
camilafig1@gmail.com
Research Interests: Intermediality, transmedia, adaptations, publishing, literature, comic books, graphic novels, cinema, TV series, telenovelas
@camilahfig

Galvan, Margaret
University of Florida
margaretgalvan@ufl.edu
Research Interests: 1980s, anthologies, archives, comics in periodicals, cultural & media studies, digital humanities, feminisms, gender & queer theory, grassroots periodicals, riot grrrl, social movement studies, underground comix, visual culture, zines
http://www.margaretgalvan.org
@magdor

Gangnes, Madeline B.
University of Florida
mbgangnes@ufl.edu
Research Interests: comics studies, illustration, adaptation, British literature, digital humanities, periodicals and serialization, book history and print culture, new media studies, film and television, science fiction, climate fiction
http://mbgangnes.com
@maddohere

Gibson, Mel
University of Northumbria
mel.gibson@northumbria.ac.uk
Research Interests: Childhood comics and childhood in comics, memory and comics, object elicitation, British comics for girls, contemporary comics (Ms Marvel, Lumberjanes etc.), children’s literature.
@dr_mel_comics

Gordon, Erin
University of Florida’s Harn Museum of Art
egordon@harn.ufl.edu
Research Interests: My formal background in fine-art, art history, and museum studies informs my research, which interrogates pop culture and visual rhetoric, and explores gender roles, feminism, fan studies, and representations of women in across various forms of popular media.
@fandomfeminism

Heifler, Sydney
The Ohio State University
sydneyheifler@gmail.com
Research Interests: Romance comics, women and gender, sexuality, Cold War, post war, history, historiography
https://sydneyheifler.com/
@romancecomicbks

Hong, Caroline Kyungah
Queens College, CUNY
caroline.hong@qc.cuny.edu
Research Interests: multiethnic comics/graphic narratives; Asian American literature and culture; comedy and humor studies; race and popular culture; critical ethnic studies
http://english.qc.cuny.edu/quick-links/caroline-kyungah-hong/
@chonkeyhong

Hong, Tiffany
Earlham College
hongti@earlham.edu
Research Interests: Narratology; superhero comics; multiverses; manga; reader response; representations of violence; canonicity
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=list_works&authuser=1&gmla=AJsN-F64cwL-oQWUg5vAHqkla2hxIc1ABgqXJm1SkRA04GrIkXHeFXdcGtBwruTA2KxfeiMPgRX4ulkbD7h2TqBF73b6nXCBJQ&user=UHf2aiMAAAAJ

Hosein, Safiyya
Ryerson University and York University
shosein30@gmail.com
Research Interests: Muslim superheroes and Muslim audiences
http://www.safiyyahosein.com
@safibelle30

in ‘t Veld, Laurike
Erasmus University Rotterdam
laurikeveld@gmail.com
Research Interests: Comics studies, Holocaust and genocide studies, popular culture, non-fiction comics, genocide representation, kitsch
@Drinthefield

Jackson, Cia
l.jackson@gsa.ac.uk
Research Interests: female superheroes, fan studies, gender, sexuality, representation of women in comics, DC Comics, feminist theory, disability studies
@dr_ciakate

Kelp-Stebbins, Kate
University of Oregon
kkelp@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: comics and graphic narratives, visual studies, media, postcolonial and anti-colonial scholarship, translation, world literature, feminism and gender studies, sports media
https://katherinekelpstebbins.com/

Kent, Miriam
Independent
miriam.kent@outlook.com
Research Interests: Marvel superheroes, feminist media studies, critical race theory, queer theory, gender studies, media representation, comics form and genre, adaptation, arts-based research and creative arts enquiry
https://www.linkedin.com/in/miriam-kent/
@drmarvel_

Khan, Rakshanda
Toronto Art Therapy Institute
rakshanda.k@gmail.com
Research Interests: Comics as a therapeutic modality, web comics
@mettahealer

Knopf, Christina
SUNY Cortland
christina.knopf@cortland.edu
Research Interests: popular culture/comics and politics, popular culture/comics and war, military cartoons, ideology in comics, representation, rhetoric
https://cmknopf.wixsite.com/precis
@knopfcm

Koch, Christina Maria
Phillipps University Marburg, Germany
christina.koch@uni-marburg.de
Research Interests: Graphic Medicine, comics narratology, feminist approaches to comics
@christinamkoch

Kunert-Graf, Rachel
Antioch University, Seattle
rachgraf@gmail.com
Research Interests: comics theory, historical epistemology, visual culture; My articles and conference papers have focused on violence and discrimination ranging from lynching to mental illness. All of my work argues that reading comics hones necessary strategies to engage with the ugliness of the world.
http://rachel.kunertgraf.com/
@r_graf

Langsdale, Sam
University of North Texas
samantha.langsdale@unt.edu
Research Interests: comics, superheroes, popular culture, feminist philosophies, contemporary critical theory, monster studies
http://samanthalangsdale.blogspot.com/
@s_langsdale

Lauer, Emily
Suffolk County Community College
lauere@sunysuffolk.edu
Research Interests: adaptation theory, superheroes, YA, SFF, children’s books and media, theater, social justice, intersectional feminism
@ProfessorEmily

Law, Jennie
Georgia State University
jlaw@gsu.edu
Research Interests: Intersectional comics history, nonfiction comics, and Wonder Woman

Lyn, Francesca P
Virginia Commonwealth University
lynfp@vcu.edu
Research Interests: autobiographical comics, critical race studies, graphic medicine, gender and women’s studies, feminist studies
http://www.francescalyn.com/
@francescalyn

Mardell, Sean(ie) Rachel
Texas State University
srm155@txstate.edu
Research Interests: Rhetoric, media studies, multimodal composition/design, public memory, and cultural studies
@SeanieRachel

Martin, Isabelle
University of Illinois at Chicago
isabelle5.martin5@gmail.com
Research Interests: Photography, refugee studies, graphic memoir, fan culture, representations of race and identity in contemporary art
@bellehooks

McClancy, Kathleen
Texas State University
kmcclancy@txstate.edu
Research Interests: Nostalgia; time; media studies

Meier, Samantha “Sam”
Independent Scholar/Archivist at Northern Arizona University
sameier12@post.harvard.edu
Research Interests: women’s underground comix, feminist comix anthologies
https://samameier.com/

Michael, Olga
UCLan Cyprus
omichael@uclan.ac.uk
Research Interests: graphic medicine, refugee and migration comics, human rights and comics 
women’s graphic memoirs, (sexual) violence in graphic life narratives, queer trauma and queer subjectivities in graphic life narratives, graphic life narratives as testimony

Millanzi, Riziki
University of Sussex
R.millanzi@sussex.ac.uk
Research Interests: Representation in Comics, Activism and Comics, Speculative Fiction, Intersectionality and Comics, Feminism, Black Girl Magic, Superheroes, Race in Comics
https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p376224-riziki-millanzi
@ItsRiziki

Miller, Ann
University of Leicester
ann.miller@le.ac.uk
Research Interests: French-language comics, gender and politics
@blacknwhitecat

Milne, Leah
University of Indianapolis
milnel@uindy.edu
Research Interests: race and ethnicity in comics, multicultural American and postcolonial literature, young adult literature, Afrofuturism, pedagogy
http://www.leahmilne.com
@DrMLovesLit

Misemer, Leah
Georgia Institute of Technology
lsmisemer@gmail.com
Research Interests: Community building through comics, multimodal composition, civic engagement, print culture, webcomics, comics and mental illness, graphic medicine
@lsmisemer

Olinger, Jay
Portland Community College, Portland State University
Jay.Olinger@gmail.com
Research Interests: Adaptation studies, Formalism, Pedagogy, Erotica, Abstract Comics, Graphic Medicine, Production, Publishing
http://www.olingerillustration.com/
@Jay_Olinger

Orbán, Katalin
ELTE University, Budapest
orban.katalin@btk.elte.hu
Research Interests: Comics studies, media studies, especially: embodiment, comics and memory/trauma, comics journalism, documentary comics, graphic medicine, disability studies, new literacies, reading practices.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/katalin-orban-87932a87/

Peppard, Anna F.
Brock University
annafpeppard@gmail.com
Research Interests: superheroes, embodiment, gender, sexuality, race, fandom
https://brocku.academia.edu/AnnaPeppard

Pfeiffer, Elisabeth
Trent University
elisabethpfeiffer@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Feminist dystopias and utopias in the graphic narrative, queer studies, critical race theories, prison industrial complex, prison abolition, intersectional feminism and gender studies, decolonialism, comic books, Bitch Planet, satire, paratext and the connection to the fandom
@_Georgethecat

Piepmeier, Olivia
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
olivia.piepmeier@umassd.edu
Research Interests: Comics librarianship; critical librarianship; feminist pedagogy; comics in higher ed. classrooms

Poletti, Anna
Utrecht University
a.l.poletti@uu.nl
Research Interests: the intersection of autobiography and comics; autographics; self-publishing; graphic medicine; diy youth culture
https://www.uu.nl/staff/ALPoletti
@poletti_anna

Postema, Barbara
Massey University
b.postema@massey.ac.nz
Research Interests: Silent comics, comics theory, narrative in comics, form, Canadian comics, New Zealand comics
http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=417450
@barpos

Resha, Adrienne
The College of William & Mary
aresha@wm.edu
Research Interests: Arab and Muslim representation in American popular media, the superhero genre, and (new) media theory
adrienneresha.com
@AdrienneResha

Richards D’Arcy-Reed, Kelly
University of York
kdar500@york.ac.uk
Research Interests: Comics studies, cultural studies, thanatology, visual sociology
https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/our-staff/students/kelly-richards-d’arcy-reed/
@imkellyrichards

Rifkind, Candida
University of Winnipeg
c.rifkind@uwinnipeg.ca
Research Interests: Autobio comics, migrant and refugee comics, Indigenous comics, Canadian comics, comics journalism, documentary comics, graphic novels
http://www.candidarifkind.com/
@CandidaRifkind

Saguisag, Lara
City University of New York-College of Staten Island
lara.saguisag@csi.cuny.edu
Research Interests: comics studies, children’s literature studies, childhood studies, komiks (Philippine comics), climate change, extractivism, petrofiction

Sakal Froese, Jocelyn
Wilfrid Laurier University
jsakalfroese@gmail.com
Research Interests: queer and feminist theory, auto-bio comics, trauma, phenomenology, aging and gender in comics, political comics/comics as politics, journalism comics
@fandacam

Sartain, Marie
University of Tulsa
marie-sartain@utulsa.edu
Research Interests: comic studies, visual culture, collaboration studies, multiple authorship, fan studies, convergence culture, superhero comics, transatlantic modernism, contemporary American literature
@marie__sartain

Serles, Katharina
University of Vienna
katharina.serles@univie.ac.at
Research Interests: Comics, Image Theory & Visual Arts, Visualities of Gender, Poetics of the Gutter, German-language Comics
http://www.katharinaserles.com
@nichtkatharina

Sfadj, Clémence
Fordham University
csfadj@fordham.edu
Research Interests: Early newspaper comic strips and cartoons, especially by artists from minority communities. American studies. Print culture. Comics theory, semiotics, and formalist approaches.
@clemencesfadj

Sina, Véronique
University of Cologne
veronique.sina@uni-koeln.de
Research Interests: comics studies; media studies; intersectionality; disability studies; gender studies; queer studies; Jewish studies; Holocaust studies
https://veronique-sina.de/ueber/
@vesin9

Sohini, Kay
Stony Brook University
sohini.kumar@stonybrook.edu
Research Interests: Comic Studies, but especially Diaspora/Transcultural comics, Queer comics, Ecocritical comics (cli-fi), Disability comics, etc. In general, in both my scholarly and creative work I focus on comics about geographical/cultural/environmental displacement and/or comics that are by and about marginalized communities. I am also interested in the intersection of comics and digital humanities in the form of interactive webcomics
https://kaysohini.hcommons.org/
@KaySohini

Stefkova, Radmila Lale
University of California, Santa Barbara
stefkova@ucsb.edu
Research Interests: Hispanic graphic narrative, documentary comics, nonfiction comics, graphic art and social justice, memory in comics, Mexican popular culture, Latin American fiction

St. Onge, Ruth-Ellen
Rare Book School at the University of Virginia
ruthellen.stonge@virginia.edu
Research Interests: Approaching comic books and graphic novels via book history, bibliography, publishing history, printing history, & sociology of literature.

Swartz-Levine, Jennifer
Lake Erie College
jswartz@lec.edu
Research Interests: Comics, gender and comics, female superheroes, gender and independent/creator owned comics
@JenniferSwartz2

Szép, Eszter
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design
eszterszep@gmail.com
Research Interests: drawing, comics and violence, non-fiction comics, comics journalism, comics and the body, comics memoirs
https://www.eszterszep.com
@eszterlikesrain

Tanski, Kate
WWAC (Women Write About Comics)
katewritesaboutcomics@gmail.com
Research Interests: Public-facing scholarship, independent scholarship, alt ac scholarship, publishing, mentoring
https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/tag/comics-diary-academia/
@metakate

Thomas, Tracey
York University & Mohawk College
tracey.holzhueter@gmail.com
Research Interests: Comic studies, adaptation studies, tv/film studies, the CW “Arrow” verse, Arrow, the Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, Supergirl, nostalgia studies, nostalgia in comics, close analysis of character, setting, plot

Tilley, Carol
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ctilley@illinois.edu
Research Interests: Comics readers, reading, and readership; censorship; comics and libraries/librarianship; archival research; children and comics; US comics history; graphic medicine
http://www.caroltilley.net
@AnUncivilPhD

Tullis, Brittany
St. Ambrose University
TullisBrittanyN@sau.edu
Research Interests: Latin/x American comics and cultural studies, feminist theory, representations of women and girls in comics, smashing the patriarchy.
@kittycampqueen

Tuszyńska, Kamila
kamila.tuszynska@gmail.com
Research Interests: literary, linguistics, culture and media studies; I am a narratologist, comics and picture book theorist, media researcher, visual communication and visual literacy expert and visual artist
https://en.kamilatuszynska.com/

Ustundag, Ebru
Brock University, Department of Geography
eustundag@brocku.ca
Research Interests: Graphic medicine, Graphic justice
@nomadic_ebru

Veith, Natalie
University of Stuttgart
natalie.veith@ilw.uni-stuttgart.de
Research Interests: British literature and culture (mostly 19th to 21st century), Visual and pluricodal media (photography, comic books, illustration, film, etc.), Postclassical Narratology, Gender Studies, Discourse analysis
https://www.ilw.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute/team/Veith/

Wathare, Jaya
University of Mumbai, India
jayawathare08@gmail.com
Research Interests: graphic narratives, popular culture, narratology, transmedia, platform studies
http://chicclutter.wordpress.com/
@JWathare

Wildfeuer, Janina
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
j.wildfeuer@rug.nl
Research Interests: multimodality, semiotics, semantics of comics, text and discourse linguistic analysis of comics, logics and formal approaches, rhetorics and multimodal argumentation; instruction comics
http://janinawildfeuer.com
@neous

Woock, Elizabeth
Palacky University, Czech Republic
elizabethallyn.woock@upol.cz
Research Interests: Medievalism, medieval history, horror, comics and graphic novels, visual narrative grammar
http://www.eallynwoock.com
@eallyn_woock

Wright, Amie
Concordia University Dept. of History/American Library Association Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table
aedwright@gmail.com
Research Interests: Comics in History, Comics in Libraries & Archives, Comics & Historical Memory
@librarylandia