Faculty of Arts and Philosophy - Research Portal

Prof. Dr. Maaheen Ahmed

maaheen.ahmed@ugent.be

Department

Department of Literary Studies

Research group(s)

20cc - Twentieth-Century Crossroads

CMSI - Cultural Memory Studies Initiative

Research Focus

Literary studies

Research Period

Research Region

Northern Europe

Research Language

Research Methodology

Iconography and analysis of images

Language and text analysis

Additional tags

Comics / graphic novels

Comparative literature

Tabgroup

Projects

Projects as supervisor

Com-post children. Children, youth, and networks in contemporary American eco-comics for (young) adults 2017-2025 (2025 - 2029)
From British punch to the China punch and Hong Kong cartoons. A transcultural cartoon history and humour (1841-1997) (2023 - 2026)
The networked author. Rethinking contemporary authorship through comics after the digital turn (2023 - 2026)
From Dale Arden to Valentina. Americanisation and gender representation in Italian comics, 1934-1965 (2023 - 2025)
Children’s periodicals from the Van Passen collection demanding interaction (2022 - 2023)
Children in comics. An intercultural history from 1865 to today (2022 - 2023)
Digital comics. Forms and functions (2019 - 2022)

Projects as co-supervisor

Narrative, metaphor and metamorphosis. The ecological potential of contemporary children's literature (2022 - 2024)

Projects as postdoc

Children in European comics from 1938 to today. Constructions, functions and transformations (2017 - 2018)
Conjuring phantoms. A comparative study of trauma in comics (2014 - 2017)

Publications

Most recent publications

Full bibliography

Teaching

Comics and Graphic Novels: https://studiekiezer.ugent.be/studiefiche/en/A005565

Literatuur en intermedialiteit: https://studiekiezer.ugent.be/studiefiche/nl/A005802/2024

Research Project