As I’ve redone my website, old posts about earlier research have been left behind. You can see check out my other publications here:
Medieval Space in Comics: Affect and Ideology, (Palgrave Macmillan: 2024).
This single-authored monograph includes an author-illustrated methods section and conclusion, visually communicating complex theories of space and place in graphic narrative and medieval studies historiography.
This chapter examines the received visualization of historic spaces in a single text across international interpretations of medieval space. Each interpretation is contextualized within its own cultural habitus has historical heritage, which determines the graphics.
This single-authored article presents an outline for more ethical peer review practices evaluating the visual plane of research comics. The results also included a rubric to act as an easy-to-use tool for both peer reviewers and readers of academic comics, an innovative solution to fill the gap of guidelines for peer reviewing research comics.
This illustrated, co-authored article examines the ethics behind illustration the journalist within a report or journalistic comics as a question of positionality and narrative, and presents options for more ethical journalistic comics practices.
This single-authored article examines the ethics behind illustration of the research within an academic or didactic comics as a question of positionality and narrative and outlines best practice for the visualisation of the author in research comics.
These illustrated, single-authored field notes ask provocative questions about the embodiment of an author or researcher as a character in research comics.
This chapter considers medievalist comics through the lens of fan studies and cosplay.
This article in comics form looks at an under-investigated phenomenon of nun characters appearing in contemporary comics as a unified trope.
“Permission for Brutality.” Antae Journal Vol. 7 No. 1 (2020): 56–71.
“Antimendicancy in Central Europe and bishop Robert of Olomouc in historiography.” Mediaevalia Historica Bohemica Vol. 18 No. 2. (2015): 69–93.
“Nuns Having Fun: Popular Graphic Representations of a Historical Issue,” in Where Is History Today? New Ways of Representing the Past. Eds Ian Christie and Marcel Arbeit, (Palacky University Press, 2015).
Past presentations at international conferences:
Possessing and staging the comics world. 2024. Conference Paper. Framing the Unreal: Exploring Graphic/Visual Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ca’ Foscari University and the International Comparative Literature Association Standing Research Committee on Comics Studies & Graphic Narrative. Venice, Italy. 11-15.11.2024
Soundscapes that flash forward, flash back. 2024. Conference Paper. The Fifteenth Annual International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference: Comics and Technologies. University of East Anglia. Norwich, UK. 10-12.07.2024
Considering the Publication Cycle of Research Comics. 2024. Conference Paper. Third International Conference of Scuola Democratica. Cagliari, Italy. 03.–06.06.2024.
Saving the Day at Kalamazoo: Finding Comics for Medievalist Research and Teaching. Workshop. 59th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, USA. 09.–11.05.2024.
Better Teaching through Comics. 2023. Conference Paper. Better Living Through Comics The 2023 Joint Conference of the International Graphic Novel & Comics and the International Bande Dessinée Society. Cambridge, UK. 03.–07.07.2023
Peer review for research comics. 2023. 9th Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference. Trento, Italy. 07.–10.06. 2023.
Covens, Convents, and Medievalist Girl Gangs. 2023. Conference Paper. Nextcomic festival 2023 “Fr / Enemy mine – Enmity and Friendship in comics,” Linz, Austria, 10.–13.03.2023.
Medieval warfare as aesthetic hyperobject in comics. 2023. Conference Paper. Historiographics: Framing the Past in Comics International Conference, Americahaus, Munich, Germany, 15.–17.06.2023.
The Bikini that Wouldn’t Die. 2023. Conference Paper. Comics Forum 2023: Reboots & Remediations, Leeds Central Library, UK, 09.–10.11.2023.
The Planet of Knights on Shining Space Dragons. 2023. Conference Paper. The Medieval in Cyberspace, Kent State University at Trumbull, Ohio, USA, 26.–2810.2023.
Fabricated Historicity in Graphic Appropriations of Edgar Allan Poe’s Classics. 2022. Conference Paper. 53rd Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA, 10.–13.03.2022.
What Hides Behind Authenticity in Medievalist Comics. 2022. Conference Paper. International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference, Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Ireland, 29.06–01.07.2022.
Medievalist Built Spaces in Sequential Art. 2021. Conference Paper. Medievalism Today: 36th Annual Conference on Medievalism, Delta College, Michigan, USA, 04.–06.11.2021.
Race War and Weapons of Mass Destruction: How Monstress Imagines a Post-apocalyptic Dark Ages. 2021. Conference Paper. Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 11.–14.11.2021
The Graphic ‘I’ in Academic Comics. 2021. Conference Paper. Comfor Annual Conference 2021: “Coherence In Comics,” Universität Salzburg, Austria, 14.–16.10.2021.
Nuns, Witches, Wenches and the Medievalist World. 2019. Conference Paper. Joint International Conference of Graphic Novels, Comics and Bande Dessineés, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK, 24.–28.06.2019.
Propaganda repeats itself: Medievalism in Alt-right comics. 2019. Conference Paper. Joint International Conference of Graphic Novels, Comics and Bande Dessineés, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland, 16.-–18.07.2019.
History As The Cloak Of Subversion – A Transnational, Transgenerational Conversation. 2018. Conference Paper. Retro! Time, Memory, Nostalgia: The Ninth International Graphic Novel And Comics Conference. Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK. 27.–29.06.2018.
Medievalism Made Me Do It: The Feedback Loop of Brutality in Comics. 2018. Conference Paper. EUPOP, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic 24.–26.07.2018.
The Transmission of Medievalism in American and Czech Underground Comics. 2017. Conference Paper. 28th Annual Conference on American Literature, Boston, MA, USA 25.–28.05.2017.
