Giorgio Busi Rizzi

Giorgio Busi Rizzi is FWO post-doctoral fellow at Ghent University, where he is also adjunct professor, teaching the English Literature and the Comics and Graphic Novel courses. He holds a PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies with joint supervision from the Universities of Bologna and Leuven. His PhD thesis, analyzing nostalgic aesthetics and practices in contemporary graphic novels, is currently submitted for publication. His first post-doctoral project, funded by a BOF fellowship from Ghent University, was called Experimental digital comics: forms and functions. Later, he was post-doctoral researcher for the ERC project Children in Comics at Ghent University.