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Julia Ludewig is an interdisciplinary teacher and scholar who is fascinated by stories and how they shape societies. Her background is in cultural and literary studies, with a BA from the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, and a PhD from Binghamton University, USA, as well as in linguistics, where she obtained an MA at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany. Inspired by both these academic fields, she looks at language, values, and culturally informed behavior in an endeavor to understand our wicked social and environmental problems. Her primary analytical texts are comics and graphic novels, but she is branching out to include the cultural production in various media, e.g. literary texts, visual media such as photography and film. Ludewig believes that the humanities have an important role in addressing today’s most pressing issues with effective communication as a prime avenue of applied scholarship.
Selected Publications:
- with Büke Schwarz. “In the Nature of Comics? Environmental Humanities and Ecological Literacy in Sequential Art.” Sequentials (forthcoming).
- “Between Convention and Peculiarity: Text in Gerhard Richter‘s Comic Strip.” [Zwischen Konvention und Eigen-Art: Text in Gerhard Richters Comic Strip.] The German Quarterly 96, no. 1 (2023): 74–96. https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.12315.
- “Erich Fromm’s Biophilia.” Network in Canadian History & Environment (blog). July 6, 2023. https://niche-canada.org/2023/07/06/erich-fromms-biophilia/.
- “Vis-à-vis: Interview Encounters in Four Recent Comic Reportages.” Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society 5, no. 1 (2021): 39–60. https://doi.org/10.1353/ink.2021.0002.
- “Different Beasts? National and Transnational Lines in the German-Indian Anthology The Elephant in the Room.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 11, no.1 (2020): 52–73. https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2019.1621915.
- “The Art of Comic Reportage.” Diegesis 8, no. 1 (2019): 24–47.