Springer VS Spaces Between: Gender, Diversity, and Identity in Comics

Product Description The contributions gathered in this volume exhibit a great variety of interdisciplinary perspectives on and theoretical approaches to the notion of  ‘ spaces between’. They draw our attention to the nexus between the medium of comics and the categories of difference as well as identity such as gender, dis/ability, age, and ethnicity, in order to open and intensify an interdisciplinary conversation between comics studies and intersectional identity studies. From the Back Cover The contributions gathered in this volume exhibit a great variety of interdisciplinary perspectives on and theoretical approaches to the notion of ‘spaces between’. They draw our attention to the nexus between the medium of comics and the categories of difference as well as identity such as gender, dis/ability, age, and ethnicity, in order to open and intensify an interdisciplinary conversation between comics studies and intersectional identity studies. The Editors Nina Eckhoff-Heindl, M.A. is a research assistant at the University of Cologne and MSCA Fellow in the “a.r.t.e.s. EUmanities” program of the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne. Dr. Véronique Sina is a Research Associate at the Department of Media Culture and Theatre at the University of Cologne and the vice president of the German Society of Comics Studies (ComFor). About the Author Nina Eckhoff-Heindl, M.A. is a research assistant at the University of Cologne and MSCA Fellow in the “a.r.t.e.s. EUmanities” program of the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne.  Dr. Véronique Sina is a Research Associate at the Department of Media Culture and Theatre at the University of Cologne and the vice president of the German Society of Comics Studies (ComFor).