About the Summer School

Academic publications and activities related to the study of graphic narratives have increased substantially in both quantity and quality since the 2000s. Nevertheless, much scholarship in this field is still shaped by national perspectives and research traditions (e.g. U.S. American comic strips, bandes dessinées from France/Belgium, Japanese manga etc.). The transnational analysis of graphic narrative as pursued in this Summer School does not seek to supplant such nationally and linguistically specific approaches. Rather, it aims to build upon them in order to study the multidimensional and increasingly global practices of production and reception of graphic narratives without neglecting the continuing significance of the national as a reference point for diverse acts of cultural self-description and meaning-making.

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