From January 2025 until December 2025 I am working on a small side project. Thanks to Ghent University BOF fund for financing this project!

Since 2017 the Netherlands has a "Graphic Novels voor de Leeslijst" , a selection of "literary comics" with which Margreet de Heer hoped to inspire teachers and pupils. The pedagogical advantages of comics in language education have been promoted by scholars (Amann & Walner 2022) and teachers. Lesson plans made by teachers for teachers focus on making comics or on approaching the literary aspects of graphic novels (Klascement). Still, comics appear in a plethora of formats and materials (zines, webcomics) and reach their diverse publics through diverse distribution channels. To help language teachers with a background in literary and linguistic studies, this project develops workshops and a webinar on comics as a medium, with attention for multimodality, publication format and implied audience. The corpus will provide teachers with a multilingual corpus (Dutch, French, German, English, Italian, Spanish).

Enroll for my workshops -> Strips en beeldromans in de taalles | Humanities Academie

<- Watch my webinars for inspiration!