Academic research & education
Ongoing
Postdoctoral research (2023-2026) on the (graphic) trace - Timely traces / traces of time : an anarchaeology of graphisations
(LUCA School of Arts, Ghent, Image research group).
Teaching Comics History (1BA), Comics Analysis (2BA), Critical Practice and Dissertation Writing (MA) at LUCA School of Arts, Brussels, Graphic Storytelling department, since 2020.
Teaching at KASK School of Arts from 2010 tot 2022: Theory and History of Illustration (3BA), Studio for Graphic Storytelling (2-3BA, 2011-2017), a yearly Master Seminar evolving round word & image (and other related topics), and the variating, research-based Project Studios for students in Graphic Design, Printmaking and Illustration (2-3BA).
Various
Short term research project 'Comics, Zines & Femininity' (initiator & coordinator); project lead and realized by Martha Verschaffel & Laura Andriessen; board: Suzy Castermans & Maaheen Ahmed; KASK Ghent 2021-22.
Lecture with Sarah Done on 'architectural comics' at Comics on the Outside, ACME conference, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 4 June 2021.
Lecture on Charlotte Salomon's Leben? oder Theater? (1943) on Sugar Spice and the Not So Nice: Comics Picturing Girlhood, International Conference by COMICS, UGhent, 23 April 2021 (online).
Online workshop on graphic narrativity and the autobiographical for master students of Saint-Luc, Brussels, 29 March 2021.
Lecture and workshop 'Comics as practice-based research', LUCA, Brussels, 23 February 2017.
Moderator in a panel and group talk about graphic novels as part of 'Literair Café' by Tumult (UrGent) in Epic, Ghent, 16 January 2017.
PhD presentation and defense with preliminary solo exhibition and book presentation of Hoe was de toekomst vandaag? & Degré Zéro at HISK, Ghent, 26 of June 2016. Jury: prof.dr. Sascha Bru, dr. Tom Van Imschoot and Olivier Deprez (promotors); prof.dr. Jan Baetens, prof.dr. Joyce Goggin and Peter Morrens.
Bilingual moderator in a stage talk with Judith Vanistendael and Dominique Goblet on Passaporta, Brussels, 29 March 2015.
Lecture on 'Beyond the comic strip' as part of a PhD seminar on New Narrativy, LUCA, Brussels, 13 March 2013.
Lecture on 'Comics & the historical avantgardes' at Independent Comics Worldwide, ACME conference, Université de Liège, 16-19 November 2011.
Lecture on 'Duration in Comics' on the Joint International Conference of Graphic Novels, Bandes dessinées and Comics, Manchester Metropolitan University, 5-8 July 2011.
Several attendancies as jury member of Illustration at PXL-MAD, Hasselt.