History and Politics in French-Language Comics and Graphic Novels

Contributors

Contributors Baru teaches at the Ecole supérieure d’art de Metz métropole (France).As a cartoonist, he has published over fifteen bande dessinée books in French. Two of his comics were published in translation by Raw magazine; and his Road to America (with Jean-Marc Thévenet and Daniel Ledran) was published by Drawn and Quarterly (2002). Among the honors that he has received are the prize for “meilleur album” at the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée in Angoulême, France, for Le chemin de l’Amérique (1991) and L’autoroute du soleil (1996); and the grand prize in 2006 at the BD Boum festival in Blois, France. His art was the subject of the exhibition “Ritals, Polaks, Métèques, Racaille: Le populo en bandes dessinées,” in Charleroi, Belgium (2007). Bart Beaty is Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of Calgary (Canada). His recent publications include Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture (UP of Mississippi, 2005), Unpopular Culture: Transforming the European Comic Book in the 1990s (Toronto UP, 2006), and, with Nick Nguyen, he is the translator of Thierry Groensteen’s The System of Comics (UP of Mississippi, 2007). Cécile Vernier Danehy is Associate Professor of French at Wheaton College (Massachusetts, U.S.A.). She is a member of the Executive Committee of the yearly International Comic Arts Forum and is its Academic Program Coordinator. She has taught courses on French bandes dessinées. Her recent publications include Racine à rebours: Une lecture de la rime (Peter Lang, 2003), and “Le bar du vieux Français ou la question de l’Autre,” in Etudes Francophones (Spring 2005). 277 278 Contributors Hugo Frey is Principal Lecturer and Head of History at the University of Chichester (U.K.). He is the author of Louis Malle (Manchester UP, 2004) and has coedited (with Benjamin Noys) special issues of Rethinking History (on “History in the Graphic Novel”; vol. 6, no. 3, 2002) and the Journal of European Studies (on“Reactionary Times”; vol. 37, nos. 3–4, 2007). A work that he wrote with Professor Christopher Flood, on the French extreme-right wing, was reprinted in James D.Le Sueur (ed.) Decolonization: A Reader (2003), a volume of the “Routledge Reader” series. Currently, Frey is writing Filming France (Reaktion Books, forthcoming 2010). Pascal Lefèvre is a docent at Sint-Lukas Brussels University College of Art and Design (Belgium), where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in comics and other visual media (film, anime). Selected publications are Pour une lecture moderne de la bande dessinée (with Jan Baetens) and The Comic Strip in the Nineteenth Century (coedited with Charles Dierick). He is a member of the international editorial board of the International Journal of Comic Art, SIGNS, and the online journal Image [&] Narrative. Fabrice Leroy is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (U.S.A.), where he chairs the Department of Modern Languages and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on modern French and Belgian francophone literature, as well as comics and graphic novels. He is the editor of Etudes Francophones, a refereed journal established in 1986. He coedited a special issue of that journal, with Adelaide Russo, on La bande dessinée belge (vol. 20, no. 1, 2005). Amanda Macdonald is a researcher in representation studies, currently preparing a manuscript on representational politics in contemporary New Caledonia. Having recently held an Australian Research Council fellowship in French at the University of Queensland, she presently occupies a visiting position in the Department of English at the University of Chicago (U.S.A.), where she teaches undergraduate and master’s courses in French cultural criticism and representation theory. She is also an editor for the journal Postcolonial Studies. Mark McKinney is Associate Professor of French at Miami University (Ohio, U.S.A.), where he teaches courses on bande dessinée, French and francophone literatures and cultures, and French language. He is coeditor, with Alec G. Hargreaves, of Post-Colonial Cultures in France (Routledge, 1997), and has 279 Contributors published on bandes dessinées in Contemporary French and Francophone Studies , Expressions maghrébines, and Modern and Contemporary France. He is a joint editor of the journal European Comic Art. He is completing a book manuscript on “Redrawing Empire: Imperialism and Colonialism in French Comics and Graphic Novels.” Ann Miller is Director of Studies for French at...