The Centre for American Studies invites you to a research seminar on Wednesday 22nd March from 4-6pm in Eliot Lecture Theatre 2 (ELT2).
All postgraduate students and staff are welcome at this event – for further information, please contact Jacqueline Basquil j.m.basquil@kent.ac.uk
Wednesday 22 March, 4-6pm in Eliot Lecture Theatre
2Comics and Anarchism
Dr Frederik Byrn Køhlert, Lecturer in American Studies, UEA
Originally from Denmark, Dr Frederik Byrn Køhlert, holds graduate degrees from Denmark, the United States, and Canada, and has been awarded major research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Quebec Research Council.
Frederik’s research concerns issues of representation in literary and visual culture, with a special emphasis on comics and graphic novels. He is the author of several articles about trauma, gender, and representation in autobiographical comics, as well as a monograph on literary representations of Chicago entitled The Chicago Literary Experience: Writing the City, 1893-1953.
His most recent research focuses on political comics and cartoons, and he is currently working on projects concerning the intersection of comics and anarchism and the international reception of Charlie Hebdo in the wake of the shootings at the newspaper’s editorial office.
Frederik’s book Serial Selves: Identity and Representation in Autobiographical Comics is forthcoming from Rutgers University Press.
Image: original drawing by ‘The Alacell’ Wikimedia Commons