Frederik Byrn started following the work of Matthew Halse, The University of Western Ontario, Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism.
Frederik Byrn changed an About section.
Graduate Student, Department of English
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Michael Sinatra, University of Montreal
Sean Carney, McGill University |
About
I am a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) at the Department of English at the University of Montreal.
I have an MA in English from the University of Oregon (as a Fulbright scholar) and an MA in English and Scandinavian Literature from the University of Aarhus, Denmark.
My dissertation is tentatively entitled "Drawing in the Margins: Identity and Subjectivity in Contemporary Autobiographical Comics," and focuses on how autobiographical comics use the form to challenge and destabilize dominant notions of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity and the body.
I am the author of several entries in two forthcoming encyclopedias of comics and graphic novels (Salem Press, 2011 and Greenwood, 2012), as well as an article on carnivalesque subversion in the comics of Julie Doucet in the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (2012).
A revised version of my MA thesis was published in 2011 by Museum Tusculanum Press (University of Copenhagen) as The Chicago Literary Experience: Writing the City, 1893-1953.
In the fall of 2011 I taught ANG 1005: Reading Popular Culture, an introductory course to the study of popular culture.
I am also a member of the Nordic Network for Comics Research (NNCORE): www.sdu.dk/nncore
In my spare time I like to hike, swim and swear at motorists from my bike.
Contact Information
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