Contributors
- Contributors
Benjamin Bigelow is an Assistant Professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Minnesota, where he teaches courses on Scandinavian culture, literature, and media. His research areas include film history, crime fiction, horror cinema, memory studies, and material ecocriticism. He is currently finishing a book manuscript on ecology and the uncanny in Scandinavian cinema.
Jenny Blenk (she/her) is an independent comics scholar whose work centers on queer and disability studies. She is currently an Assistant Editor at Dark Horse Comics and a former Member at Large on the Comics Studies Society's Executive Board. She currently lives in Portland, Oregon.
Julia Ludewig is an Assistant Professor of German in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Allegheny College, where she teaches all levels of language, literature, and culture. Her research interests focus on multimodal storytelling, language pedagogy, and environmental studies. Most recently, she has co-edited a special issue on German comics from a transnational perspective in the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics.
Ning Ma is an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at University of Minnesota. She is the author of The Age of Silver: The Rise of the Novel East and West (Oxford University Press, 2016). Her research focuses on early modern Chinese vernacular novels, comparative early modernity, and cultural globalization. She is currently working on a project that investigates evolving cultural and literary works related to The Journey to the West in past and present contexts of cultural globalization.
Elizabeth "Biz" Nijdam is an Assistant Professor in German Studies in the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies at the University of British. Her research interests include the representation of history in comics, comics and media on migration, and comics as a feminist methodology. Her recent publications include articles in The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, ImageText, World Literature Today, and International Journal of Comic Art, as well as chapters in the edited volumes Class, Please Open Your Comics (2015), Comics of the New Europe (2020), The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies (forthcoming), and Comic Art and Feminism in the Baltic Sea Region: Transnational Perspectives (forthcoming). Biz is also currently co-editing a special issue of the Canadian German Studies journal Seminar on German comics and social justice.
Adrienne Resha is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of American Studies at the College of William & Mary. Her research interests include Arab and Muslim representation in American popular media, the superhero genre, and media theory. She serves on the Executive Board of the Comics Studies Society's Graduate Student Caucus and is the author of "The Blue Age of Comic Books."
Candida Rifkind is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Winnipeg, where she specializes in comics and graphic narratives, life writing, and Canadian literature and culture. In addition to numerous publications in Canadian Studies and Comics Studies, she is the co-editor of Canadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2016), Documenting Trauma in Comics (Palgrave, 2020) and a special issue of a|b: Auto|Biography Studies on "Migration, Exile, and Diaspora in Graphic Life Narratives" (Spring 2020). She serves on the Executive Board of the Comics Studies Society, the advisory boards for INKS and Studies in Canadian Literature, and is co-editor of the Wilfrid Laurier UP book series Crossing the Lines: Transcultural/Transnational Comics Studies.
Agnès Schaffauser is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Minnesota, specializing in Francophone postcolonial literature with an emphasis on Maghrebi literature. Her article "'The Toxic Father' and 'the Healing Daughter' in Marie NDiaye's Three Strong Women" appeared in The French Review (2017) and her first book, a collective volume on French-Algerian writer Salim Bachi was published by L'Harmattan (2019).
Rüdiger Singer has been a Visiting Associate Professor of German in the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic and Dutch at the University of Minnesota since 2015, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses on contemporary Germany, cultural periods in the nineteenth century, fairy tales, film adaptations, and graphic novels. Research interests include enlightenment literature, theater theory, ekphrasis...
