Marcel Brousseau

Marcel Brousseau is a Courtesy Assistant Professor in the Department of English within the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon. His academic work spans multiple interdisciplinary fields, including Comics and Cartoon Studies, Digital Humanities, and English. He teaches courses on narrative cartography, border cinema, Latinx literature, Indigenous cinema, and race and sports.

His research interests are highly interdisciplinary, focusing on:

• Architectural history and historic preservation
• Border studies and migration narratives
• Indigenous and Latinx studies
• Environmental and aviation history
• Digital and critical humanities
• Comics and media studies

Marcel is currently completing a Master’s thesis in Historic Preservation titled "A Way of Treating History: The Life, Death, and Adaptive Reuse of the Houston Astrodome" and is writing a book manuscript on trans-American borderlands titled "Hyperborders: Cultural Techniques of the Trans-American Borderlands". He also creates critical cartographic works known as "moralized road maps" that visualize migration stories.

There are no scientific awards listed in the available information.

Marcel advises on interdisciplinary research and engages in experiential scholarship through digital and visual methods. Although no formal students are listed, his work supports graduate and undergraduate research in border studies, digital humanities, and historic preservation.

He is actively involved in research and creative projects centered on cultural techniques, spatial justice, and narrative representation, particularly through the lens of marginalized communities and infrastructural heritage.