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Elizabeth Nijdam
Elizabeth ‘Biz’ Nijdam is a lecturer in the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. She is also a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo, working on her forthcoming book manuscript Graphic Historiography: East German Memory Discourses in Comics and Graphic Novels (Ohio State University Press, 2022). Biz’s research and teaching interests include the representation of history in comics, comics and new media on forced migration, exploring intersections between Indigenous studies and German and European studies, and feminist methodologies in the graphic arts, which the subject of her second book project (under contract with Routledge). Biz also sits on the Executive Committee of the International Comic Arts Forum and the Executive Board of the Comics Studies Society. Her recent publications include a Special Issue of Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, entitled ‘The social justice work of German comics and graphic literature’ and co-edited with Charlotte Schallié as well as articles in ImageText, the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, World Literature Today and International Journal of Comic Art and chapters in the edited volumes Class, Please Open Your Comics (McFarland Press, 2015); Comics of the New Europe: Intersections and Reflections (University of Leuven Press, 2020) and The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies (Routledge, 2020).
Contact: Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Campus, Vancouver, Canada.