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Rebecca Lynne Scherr is a Professor of English Language Literature at the University of Oslo’s Faculty of Humanities, Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages. She holds a PhD from the University of Minnesota (2005) and specializes in Film and Visual Culture Studies, Comics Research, Contemporary Literature, Modernism, and intersectional approaches to Gender and Queer Theory, Critical Race Theory. Her work interrogates representations of race, gender, and sexuality in literature and film, with a focus on how these categories intersect and inform one another.
Her research interests include analyzing graphic novels, feminist and queer methodologies, and the historical and cultural contexts of marginalized voices. Notable publications include studies on Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, Joe Sacco’s Palestine, and Todd Haynes’ films. She has contributed to interdisciplinary projects like ILLREP: Representations of Illness and Disability in Literary and Cultural Texts and is a member of the Nordic Network for Comics Research (NNCORE).
Her scholarly articles and book chapters explore topics such as comics as a medium for human rights discourse, the ethics of autobiographical narratives, and the aesthetics of touch in modernist literature. Her work often bridges literature, film, and visual culture, emphasizing critical frameworks that challenge dominant narratives of race, gender, and sexuality.
