Guest Lecturer: Elizabeth "Biz" Nijdam

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Tuesday, March 19th | Angell 3222


1:45PM Refreshments | 2:00-3:30PM Lecture & Discussion
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Elizabeth "Biz" Nijdam is Visiting Assistant Professor in German Studies and Film & Media Studies at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. Last year, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Frei Universität Berlin, where she was working on her book project “Paneled Pasts: East German History and Memory in the German Graphic Novel,” which is now under contract with Ohio State University Press. Biz graduated from the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 2017. She has published in World Literature Today, International Journal of Comic Art, and as chapters in the edited volume Class, Please Open Your Comics (2015) and the forthcoming book Comics of the New Europe: Intersections and Reflections with University of Leuven Press. In addition to founding the University of Michigan’s first comics studies working group, the Transnational Comics Studies Workshop, Biz is also the Secretary for the Executive Committee of the International Comic Arts Forum and Vice President of the Executive Board of the Comics Studies Society's Graduate Student Caucus.

Here current project, "Towards a Graphic Historicity: Authenticity and Photography in the German Graphic Novel" will consider the ways that graphic historiography thematizes the production of history by revealing history’s contradictions the moment documentary material is mobilized. By drawing attention to history’s curation via the archival documents required to establish historical writing’s “authenticity,” graphic historiography demonstrates how history itself is also a construction.

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