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Anne Magnussen
Anne Magnussen is an associate professor at the Department of History, University of Southern Denmark and holds a Ph.D. degree from University of Copenhagen (2001). Her research interests include the US–Mexican border, ethnicity and power from the late nineteenth century to the present, as well as (primarily) Latinx, Mexican and Spanish popular culture, with a specific focus on comics in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She has edited three books about comics, latest Spanish Comics: Historical and Cultural Perspectives (New York: Berghahn Books 2020) and three special journal issues about comics, and written a series of peer-reviewed articles on the topic. Magnussen is part of international comics research networks and has been participating in many comics seminars and conferences. She was a co-founder of NNCORE, Nordic Network for Comics Research (funded by FKK 2011–13), and latest a member of the research network, Comics and the Latin American City (CLAC), funded by the Leverhulme Trust (2016–19). Together with Ann Miller and Laurence Grove, Anne Magnussen co-edits the peer-reviewed comics research journal, European Comic Art (Berghahn Publishers).
Contact: Department of History, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5230, Odense M, Denmark.