Funded by SSHRC, my bilingual postdoctoral research-creation project, “BD, Malades” examines representations of illness and disability in Québecois comics or bandes dessinées. Using a research-creation methodology that combines literary analysis and comics making, my work will forge a new path in comics studies by producing English and French creative academic output that grounds Québecois comics in graphic medicine.

Postdoc Project

Selected Publications

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Selected Publications *

The cover of Keywords and Keyimages in Graphic Medicine. A boy lies in bed with mysterious symbols surrounding him as he bows his hands above his heart.

"Uncanny Pictorial Embodiment" (2026)

How do comics represent trauma? This anthology chapter investigates animal-human hybrids and uncanny objects as metaphors in comics.

A woman with blond hair wearing a black dress with small white hearts looks down at a book she is holding. The book is open to the book chapter "Sexual Violence in Testimonial Stand-Up Comedy"

"Sexual Violence in Testimonial Stand-Up Comedy" (2022)

This book chapter examines the Canadian stand-up comedy show Rape Is Real and Everywhere (2017) to hypothesize why sexual violence survivors are increasingly divulging their traumatic experiences through stand-up comedy.

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"Shameless Comedy" (2018)

This article adds to the conversation of controversial feminist humour by moving away from debates as to whether rape jokes can be funny or feminist and instead examining how they may impact feminist women and female sexual assault survivor.