Person

Lund, Martin

1984

I hold a Ph.D. in Jewish studies from Lund University in Lund, Sweden. My thesis, Rethinking the Jewish–Comics Connection, was a study of configurations of identity in American mainstream comics by Jewish writers and a critical dialogue with the extant literature on the subject. In it, I situate the comics studied within historical American identity formations and Jewish American and American history, arguing that the oft-claimed Jewish–comics connection most clearly emerges as an expression of what it meant for the discussed writers to be Jewish Americans in their own time. My main research interests are religion and comics, the representation of race and ethnicity in popular culture, and the role that the specific ethno-racial and socio-political conditions of geographical place play in textual production. I have published articles and reviews in academic and popular science journals on a range of subjects. I am currently working on a research project about comics and New York City as a Swedish Research Council International Postdoc (Linnaeus University) and a Visiting Research Scholar at the Gotham Center for New York City History (CUNY Graduate Center, New York). I am also an editor of the Scandinavian Journal of Comic Art, co-editor (with A. David Lewis) of a forthcoming volume on Muslim superheroes, and a member of Sacred and Sequential, a collective of comics and religion scholars.