A Presentation from Dr Golnar Nabizadeh

In this presentation, Dr Golnar Nabizadeh will analyse the ways in which comics and graphic novels offer a rich field within which concepts such as disease, trauma, and memory can be imagined and articulated.  Commencing with a brief overview of the mechanics of comics, the discussion will move to several close readings of texts such as Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s manga Hell (2005), Henry Yoshitaka Kiyama’s Four Immigrants Manga (1931), and Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006) to demonstrate the narrative strength of the comics form in exploring trauma narratives and memory

Golnar is Lecturer in Comics Studies at the University of Dundee. Her research interests are in visual culture, critical theory, trauma and memory studies, and she has published in Cultural Studies Review, Adaptation, WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly and Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. She has forthcoming articles on Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, the Australian online comic ‘A Guard’s Story’ for ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, and a monograph entitled Representation and Memory in Graphic Novels with Ashgate Publishing (2017).