Assistant Professor of Teaching, Department of Central, Eastern & Northern European Studies
Email: biz.nijdam@ubc.ca
Elizabeth “Biz” Nijdam is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of Central, Eastern & Northern European Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, where she lives, works, and learns on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.
Dr. Nijdam’s research and teaching examine the representation of history in comics, comics and new media on forced migration, intersections between Indigenous studies and German, European, and migration studies, and feminist methodologies in the graphic arts.
At UBC, she leads the Narratives Research Group in the UBC Centre for Migration Studies and founded and co-leads the recently established Comic Studies Research Cluster in UBC’s Public Humanities Hub.
Research Area: Comics Studies, German Studies, Media Studies
Dr. Nijdam’s research focuses on how new media and popular culture provide important entry points for engaging with complex discourses of human experience, illuminating systems of oppression, and interrogating issues of identity, gender, and sexuality.