Biz Nijdam

• Assistant Professor, Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies, University of British Columbia

Elizabeth "Biz" Nijdam is an Assistant Professor and settler scholar in the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, where she works, learns, and lives on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. She is currently completing her book manuscript Graphic Historiography: History & Memory through Comics and Graphic Novels (Ohio State University Press). Biz's research and teaching include the representation of history in comics, comics and new media on forced migration, intersections between Indigenous studies and German, European, and migration studies, analog game studies, and feminist methodologies in the graphic arts. Biz sits on the Executive Committee of the International Comic Arts Forum and is the Director of the Comics Studies Cluster in UBC's Public Humanities Hub.

• –present Assistant Professor (without review) of German, University of British Columbia

• 2017 University of Michigan, PhD in German Studies

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