Prof. Bart Beaty
Fellow
Current Employer
University of Calgary
Election Year
2021
Academy
Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Bart Beaty helped found Comics Studies as a scholarly field. Operating at the intersection of literary studies, art history, communication theory, and the sociology of culture, his scholarship, in seventeen books and more than 200 essays, has completely defined this nascent subfield and he has positioned the University of Calgary as one of the most important institutions for research on graphic narrative anywhere in the world.
Bart Beaty a aidé à fonder l’étude de la bande dessinée en tant que domaine universitaire. Opérant à l'intersection des études littéraires, de l'histoire de l'art, de la théorie de la communication et de la sociologie de la culture, ses recherches, dans dix-sept livres et plus de 200 essais, a complètement défini ce sous-domaine naissant et il a positionné l'Université de Calgary comme l'un des les plus importantes institutions de recherche sur la narration graphique partout dans le monde.