“Life as a comics-focused PhD student”
Abstract: This talk seeks to address how comics-focused doctoral students contribute to comics studies in terms of research, service, and teaching activities. Rahbar’s talk will focus on blindness and comics as well as manga and libraries. She will also provide suggestions to undergraduate and graduate students, librarians, and readers interested in doing comics studies research.
Victoria Ramirez Rahbar (she/they) is a PhD student at the University of British Columbia School of Information. Before coming to Canada, she earned a Master of Arts in East Asian Studies at Stanford University and received a Master of Library and Information Science degree from the University of Washington. Previously she worked in academic libraries. Her research interests include cultural representation in manga, seeking out narratives around disability and neurodiversity, and manga in postsecondary education and academic library collections.