Thierry Groensteen was Director of the Angoulême Comic Strip Museum from 1993 to 2001, and is also a publisher, essayist and exhibition curator.
Perspectives on research and lectures in higher and secondary education in France and elsewhere.
Irène Le Roy Ladurie has a doctorate in literature and is an associate professor. Her thesis on the caress in literature and comics covers the contemporary period and the European and North American domains. Her fields of research are the representation of sexuality, eroticism and the body, and her method is in line with that of sensory studies. She is also co-editor-in-chief of the magazine Neuvième Art (Cité de la bande dessinée d'Angoulême) alongside Sylvain Lesage.
The current state of university research on comics.
Sylvain Lesage is a lecturer in history at the University of Lille, and a researcher at IRHiS. His research focuses on the history of books, publishing and reading, media history and visual history. He recently published Publier la bande dessinée. Les éditeurs franco-belges et l'album (Presses de l'ENSSIB, 2018), L'Effet livre. Métamorphoses de la bande dessinée (Presses universitaires François Rabelais, 2019) as well as Ninth Art. Bande dessinée, book publishing and the transformation of French mass culture, 1964-1975 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). Sylvain Lesage is also editor-in-chief of the magazine Neuvième Art, published by the Cité internationale de la bande dessinée d'Angoulême, alongside Irène Le Roy Ladurie.
