Dona Pursall is a Ph.D. student of cultural studies, currently embraced within a wider European project seeking to piece together an intercultural history of children in comics: https://www.comics.ugent.be. Her research explores the history of humorous comics within contexts, interrogating themes of children, childhood, imagination and culture through an era of social unrest and political change. She is specifically investigating the relationship between the British ‘funnies’ from the 1930s to the 1960s and the experiences and development of child readers. As a teacher with over fifteen years of classroom experience, she is especially interested in children’s reading experience. Her master’s degree explored young adult readers and notions of identity and consumerism within vampire fiction.
Contact: COMICS, Ghent University, Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Gent, Belgium.
