Please join us in congratulating Spring 2025 Comics-to-Research Graduate Award winners Laen Hershler (Language and Literacy Education) and Cynthia Liu (Creative Writing)!
Laen’s project Memory in Motion: Dialoguing with Holocaust Survivor Voices through Research-based Theatre and Performative Inquiry explores Holocaust memory through the embodied practice of theatre and audience reflection. Cynthia is working on a graphic novel entitled Splendid China, USA that blends historical research, feminist critique, and speculative fiction to explore immigration and reproductive justice. You can learn more about these amazing projects here!
The Comics-to-Research Graduate Awards allow UBC graduate students to commission a cartoonist or comic artist to create an 8–12-page comic based on their graduate research. Capitalizing on visual storytelling as a form of arts-based knowledge mobilization, this opportunity allows awardees to share their work with a broader audience.
Interested in applying for the Comics-to-Research Graduate Awards? Learn how here!