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A/b: Auto/biography Studies, May 3, 2020

where she teaches on the Comics & Graphic Novels MLitt, as well as undergraduate Humanities modul... more where she teaches on the Comics & Graphic Novels MLitt, as well as undergraduate Humanities modules. Her research interests are graphic justice, critical theory, trauma and memory studies. She has published on the work of Alison Bechdel, Marjane Satrapi, Shaun Tan, and the Australian online comic "At Work in Our Detention Centres: A Guard's Story", among others. She is the author of Representation and Memory in Graphic Novels (Routledge 2019).

Law and Humanities, Jan 2, 2023

Studies in Comics, Jul 1, 2020

University of Dundee eBooks, 2018

UniVerse, Apr 1, 2018

Archives can be thought of in many different ways-they may be photos, letters, diaries, official ... more Archives can be thought of in many different ways-they may be photos, letters, diaries, official records, monuments, databases and other documents. But archives are also people's memories, personal anecdotes, and shared histories and find expression through artworks that can re-inscribe the past in new and different ways. This comic describes the story of a family forced to flee from their home to a new place. Their background is not fully defined, nor is it clear what happens to some of the characters the reader meets within the story. Such perilous journeys often mean that valued belongings and possessions must be left behind. What happens to their lives, their stories, and their archives in such circumstances? Archives signal an end and beginning-by containing the past, they also gesture to the future-and to the unfolding of life in its many guises. This comic is dedicated to displaced persons around the world and the journeys they have been compelled to take. It takes inspiration from the work of Dr Dima Saber and Professor Paul Long and their work on crowd-sourced citizen archives from Syria. Thanks to everyone who helped bring this comic together.

Representation and Memory in Graphic Novels, 2019

Representation and Memory in Graphic Novels, 2019

Celebrating our Public Engagement - Part 2: The Stephen Fry Public Engagement awards, Apr 30, 2021

Golnar Nabizadeh's monograph, Representation and Memory in Graphic Novels, moves beyond the commo... more Golnar Nabizadeh's monograph, Representation and Memory in Graphic Novels, moves beyond the common trend of examining trauma narratives to focusing on different kinds of memory in comics. Her aim, however, remains comparable to discussions around trauma in comics and graphic novel that seek to highlight the unique contributions of comics for representing complex, serious themes: her "book examines the way that modern comics represent personal, political, social, and historical memories, and argues that comics can help recover marginalized and minority voices from the peripheries of representation" (1). Problematic as they are, such claims regarding the uniqueness of comics for representing "othered" perspectives are very much part of the mainstream of comics scholarship as concretized by Hillary Chute's recent, popularizing (and successful) book, Why Comics? From Underground to Everywhere. While such generalizations in themselves are not productive-and indeed somewhat misleading since they tend to focus on particular kinds of comics-the close readings teasing the specific functioning of comics are often rewarding. This is the case in Representation and Memory in Graphic Novels. Nabizadeh succeeds in conveying complex ideas very clearly. Her close readings, combining familiar comics with overlooked ones, are insightful and convincing. The book will be useful to scholars working on comics and autobiographical and political memories. It is also accessible for students and scholars new to the field.

WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly, 2016

Cultural Studies Review, 1970

This article considers the pedagogical value of praxis in maintaining the relevance of cultural s... more This article considers the pedagogical value of praxis in maintaining the relevance of cultural studies in the Australian academic environment. Following its highly politicised beginnings at the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, we consider whether traditional classroom practices are commensurate with the contemporary expectations of students and staff. As a working model of the current Australian university climate, we consider the discipline group of English and Cultural Studies (ECS) at the University of Western Australia. After evaluating data gathered from interviews and surveys across the undergraduate, postgraduate and staff population, we suggest potential pedagogical innovations to be implemented in cultural studies at UWA, as a case study within Australia. Our findings show that students are calling for practical activities that would benefit their studies as a complement to theory in the classroom. As a result, we argue that praxis is not only important...

Adaptation, 2015

ABSTRACT This paper explores the role of fantasy in E. Phillips Fox’s historical painting, ‘Landi... more ABSTRACT This paper explores the role of fantasy in E. Phillips Fox’s historical painting, ‘Landing of Captain Cook at Botany Bay 1770’ (1902) through two contemporary adaptations of the work in The Rabbits (1998) by John Marsden and Shaun Tan, and Daniel Boyd’s painting, ‘We Call Them Pirates Out Here’ (2006). Although markedly different in terms of their material production and aesthetic approach, the adaptations of ‘Landing of Captain Cook’ recapitulate its colonial fantasy by displacing the hyper-real contents of the original with surrealistic and pop elements, respectively. I suggest that as ‘after-images’, these adaptations usefully complicate the signification of ‘Cook’ and in so doing, engage with dialogues about how ‘Australia’ is constituted, and how it might be imagined. In this sense, the adaptations consciously draw out the fantasy of ‘Australia’ in the original through their later aesthetic permutations.

A/b: Auto/biography Studies, May 3, 2020

where she teaches on the Comics & Graphic Novels MLitt, as well as undergraduate Humanities modul... more where she teaches on the Comics & Graphic Novels MLitt, as well as undergraduate Humanities modules. Her research interests are graphic justice, critical theory, trauma and memory studies. She has published on the work of Alison Bechdel, Marjane Satrapi, Shaun Tan, and the Australian online comic "At Work in Our Detention Centres: A Guard's Story", among others. She is the author of Representation and Memory in Graphic Novels (Routledge 2019).

Law and Humanities, Jan 2, 2023

Studies in Comics, Jul 1, 2020

University of Dundee eBooks, 2018

UniVerse, Apr 1, 2018

Archives can be thought of in many different ways-they may be photos, letters, diaries, official ... more Archives can be thought of in many different ways-they may be photos, letters, diaries, official records, monuments, databases and other documents. But archives are also people's memories, personal anecdotes, and shared histories and find expression through artworks that can re-inscribe the past in new and different ways. This comic describes the story of a family forced to flee from their home to a new place. Their background is not fully defined, nor is it clear what happens to some of the characters the reader meets within the story. Such perilous journeys often mean that valued belongings and possessions must be left behind. What happens to their lives, their stories, and their archives in such circumstances? Archives signal an end and beginning-by containing the past, they also gesture to the future-and to the unfolding of life in its many guises. This comic is dedicated to displaced persons around the world and the journeys they have been compelled to take. It takes inspiration from the work of Dr Dima Saber and Professor Paul Long and their work on crowd-sourced citizen archives from Syria. Thanks to everyone who helped bring this comic together.

Representation and Memory in Graphic Novels, 2019

Representation and Memory in Graphic Novels, 2019

Celebrating our Public Engagement - Part 2: The Stephen Fry Public Engagement awards, Apr 30, 2021

Golnar Nabizadeh's monograph, Representation and Memory in Graphic Novels, moves beyond the commo... more Golnar Nabizadeh's monograph, Representation and Memory in Graphic Novels, moves beyond the common trend of examining trauma narratives to focusing on different kinds of memory in comics. Her aim, however, remains comparable to discussions around trauma in comics and graphic novel that seek to highlight the unique contributions of comics for representing complex, serious themes: her "book examines the way that modern comics represent personal, political, social, and historical memories, and argues that comics can help recover marginalized and minority voices from the peripheries of representation" (1). Problematic as they are, such claims regarding the uniqueness of comics for representing "othered" perspectives are very much part of the mainstream of comics scholarship as concretized by Hillary Chute's recent, popularizing (and successful) book, Why Comics? From Underground to Everywhere. While such generalizations in themselves are not productive-and indeed somewhat misleading since they tend to focus on particular kinds of comics-the close readings teasing the specific functioning of comics are often rewarding. This is the case in Representation and Memory in Graphic Novels. Nabizadeh succeeds in conveying complex ideas very clearly. Her close readings, combining familiar comics with overlooked ones, are insightful and convincing. The book will be useful to scholars working on comics and autobiographical and political memories. It is also accessible for students and scholars new to the field.

WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly, 2016

Cultural Studies Review, 1970

This article considers the pedagogical value of praxis in maintaining the relevance of cultural s... more This article considers the pedagogical value of praxis in maintaining the relevance of cultural studies in the Australian academic environment. Following its highly politicised beginnings at the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, we consider whether traditional classroom practices are commensurate with the contemporary expectations of students and staff. As a working model of the current Australian university climate, we consider the discipline group of English and Cultural Studies (ECS) at the University of Western Australia. After evaluating data gathered from interviews and surveys across the undergraduate, postgraduate and staff population, we suggest potential pedagogical innovations to be implemented in cultural studies at UWA, as a case study within Australia. Our findings show that students are calling for practical activities that would benefit their studies as a complement to theory in the classroom. As a result, we argue that praxis is not only important...

Adaptation, 2015

ABSTRACT This paper explores the role of fantasy in E. Phillips Fox’s historical painting, ‘Landi... more ABSTRACT This paper explores the role of fantasy in E. Phillips Fox’s historical painting, ‘Landing of Captain Cook at Botany Bay 1770’ (1902) through two contemporary adaptations of the work in The Rabbits (1998) by John Marsden and Shaun Tan, and Daniel Boyd’s painting, ‘We Call Them Pirates Out Here’ (2006). Although markedly different in terms of their material production and aesthetic approach, the adaptations of ‘Landing of Captain Cook’ recapitulate its colonial fantasy by displacing the hyper-real contents of the original with surrealistic and pop elements, respectively. I suggest that as ‘after-images’, these adaptations usefully complicate the signification of ‘Cook’ and in so doing, engage with dialogues about how ‘Australia’ is constituted, and how it might be imagined. In this sense, the adaptations consciously draw out the fantasy of ‘Australia’ in the original through their later aesthetic permutations.

Forthcoming work with Ashgate Publishing (2017) in the Memory Studies: Global Constellations series

This volume collects work by several European, North American, and Australian academics who are i... more This volume collects work by several European, North American, and Australian academics who are interested in examining the performance and transmission of post-traumatic memory in the contemporary United States. The contributors depart from the interpretation of trauma as a unique exceptional event that shatters all systems of representation, as seen in the writing of early trauma theorists like Cathy Caruth, Shoshana Felman, and Dominick LaCapra. Rather, the chapters in this collection are in conversation with more recent readings of trauma such as Michael Rothberg’s “multidirectional memory” (2009), the role of mediation and remediation in the dynamics of cultural memory (Astrid Erll, 2012; Aleida Assman, 2011), and Stef Craps’ focus on “postcolonial witnessing” and its cross-cultural dimension (2013).