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Nancy Pedri is a Full Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, specializing in word-image relations, photography in literature, and graphic memoir. Her research explores intersections of visual media with narrative theory, gender studies, and postcolonial discourse.
- PhD in Comparative Literature (University of Toronto)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis
Key research areas include: intermedial narrative structures, photographic representation in fiction, and multimodal autobiographical texts. She has co-edited special issues on oceanic studies, graphic illness narratives, and visual culture in comics. Her publications analyze works by Art Spiegelman, W.G. Sebald, and Italian authors.
Recent trends in her work focus on: ecocritical perspectives in colonial/postcolonial maritime narratives, mental health visualization in comics, and genre-specific storytelling strategies across superhero, alternative, and documentary formats.
- 2012 ISSR Prize for Best Essay in Narrative
- 2016 Dean’s Award for Distinguished Scholarship
Pedri teaches comics studies at both undergraduate and graduate levels, supervising research on graphic narratives, visual epistemology, and transnational literary-visual analysis.
