About

Benoît Crucifix is assistant professor (tenure-track) of Cultural Studies at KU Leuven and lead researcher of the Pop Heritage Lab at the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR), under the impulse of a FED-tWIN funding. He is interested in the cultural memory, heritage, archives, and transmission of popular print culture across different contexts. He carried out his doctoral research at the University of Liège and UCLouvain under an FNRS fellowship and was a postdoctoral researcher on Maaheen Ahmed’s ERC-funded COMICS research program at Ghent University. He is the author of Drawing from the Archives: Comics Memory in the Contemporary Graphic Novel (2023). He is co-editor in chief of the journal Comicalités.