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Alicia Lambert
Alicia Lambert is a doctoral student in literature at the Institut des civilisations, arts et lettres (INCAL) of the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium). Her doctoral project, supported by an FNRS-FRESH grant, examines the artistic gestures that denounce and subvert the Belgian (neo)colonial imaginary in a corpus of recent comics (2000-2023). Her work focuses on artists such as Barly Baruti, Asimba Bathy, Jean-Philippe Stassen, Nicolas Pitz, Nicolas Wouters, Olivier Schrauwen, Anton Kannemeyer, Frank Mukanday and Tétshim, among others. She is the author of several articles, as well as a review and an interview, published in Memory Studies, French Studies in Southern Africa, European Comic Art and Nouvelles Études Francophones. Related to her research, she has also collaborated with Esa Saint-Luc and associations such as Louvain Coopération, Centre Placet and CEC ONG, including for the exhibition Angles morts de la décolonisation belge (2023, Louvain-la-Neuve).
PhD: Panels in Tensions, Memories in Dialogues: Comics and the Belgian Colonial Imaginary (2000-2023)
- Diploma
Year Label Educational Organization 2018 Master en Langues et littératures anglophones Université catholique de Louvain
Teaching
- 2020-2022 : Workshops (4h) on Art Spiegelman's Maus ('The History of English Literature II', LGERM1524, Véronique Bragard, UCLouvain).
- Feb. 2022 : Intervention 'La BD dans l’espace public, l’espace public dans la BD' (séminaire de littératures romanes, BA3, Fabrice Preyat, ULB).
- Feb.-may 2022 : Weekly workshops (20h) on French-language comics theory and analysis (‘Theory & practice of translation/Intertextuality’, A/Prof. Markus Arnold, BA Honours, School of Languages & Literatures (French), University of Cape Town).
- May 2022 : Intervention on French-language comics ('Histoire littéraire', Prof. Karel Plaiche, French BA2, University of Cape Town).
- Sept.-Jan. 2022-2023 : Interventions on comics journalism ('bande dessinée -édition', master 1, Esa Saint-Luc, Brussels).
- 2023 : Intervention on comics and decolonization ('Comics and decolonization', LGERM2826, Véronique Bragard, UCLouvain).
Collaborations
- 2022 - ? : 'Musée Hergé' guided tours (with Centre Placet, Louvain-la-Neuve)
- 2022-2023 : Project around comics journalism and decolonization (with Esa Saint-Luc and Louvain Coopération)
- 2022-2023 : Literary meetings and events around Belgian colonial memory in comics (with CEC ONG)
2023
Lambert, Alicia. (Mis)Leading the Reader: Decolonising Adventure Comics in Baruti and Cassiau-Haurie's Le Singe jaune. In: European Comic Art, Vol. 16, no.1, p. 75-103 (2023). doi:10.3167/eca.2023.160104.
2023
Lambert, Alicia. Entretien croisé avec Nicolas Pitz et Nicolas Wouters. In: Nouvelles Études Francophones, Vol. 38, no.1, p. 192-198 (2023). doi:10.1353/nef.2023.a905932.
2023
Lambert, Alicia. Redessiner les archives familiales: Mise en tensions graphiques dans Les Jardins du Congo de Nicolas Pitz et Elle ne parlait jamais du Congo de Nicolas Wouters. In: Nouvelles Études Francophones, Vol. Volume 38, no.Numéro 1, p. 176-191 (2023). doi:10.1353/nef.2023.a905931 (Soumis).
2022
Lambert, Alicia. Postcolonialism and Migration in French Comics, McKinney, Mark [compte-rendu]. In: French Studies in Southern Africa, Vol. 2022, no.52, p. 236-240 (2022).
2021
Bragard, Véronique ; Lambert, Alicia. (Un)drawing Belgium’s colonial monuments: Comics’ engagement with decolonial debates. In: Memory Studies, Vol. 14, no.6, p. 1185-1207 (2021). doi:10.1177/17506980211054292.
2023
Lambert, Alicia. Can the Collective Be Heard? (Re)Drawing and Braiding as an Amplifying Gesture in Lucha , Chronique d’une revolution sans armes au Congo. HistorioGRAPHICS: Framing the Past in Comics (Munich (DE), du 15/06/2023 au 17/06/2023).
2023
Lambert, Alicia. Memories in Dialogue: New Forms of Remembrance in Belgian Congolese Comics. Comics, Popular Visual Culture, and Colonialism (Munster, 27/01/2023).
2022
Lambert, Alicia. Paradis perdu ? Mise en récit graphique des archives familiales d’anciens colons belges. Zones de contact, zones de conflit – convergences et divergences francophones (Trente, Italy, du 20/06/2022 au 26/06/2022).
2021
Lambert, Alicia. (Mis)Leading the Reader: Decolonizing Adventure Comics in Cassiau-Haurie and Baruti’s Le Singe Jaune. Comics and Their Audiences/Audiences and Their Comics: The 2021 Joint Conference of the International Graphic Novel & Comics and (University of Cambridge[online], du 21/06/2021 au 25/06/2021).
2021
Lambert, Alicia. Déconstruire les stéréotypes de la Belgique (post-)coloniale : la bande dessinée de reportage de Jean-Philippe Stassen. Images de l’étranger dans la bande dessinée : interculturalité, exotisation, statut narratif (Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier 3, France [en ligne], du 4/02/2021 au 04/02/2021).
2024
Lambert, Alicia. Cases en tensions, mémoires en dialogues : (Re)dessiner et décoloniser l’imaginaire colonial belge dans la bande dessinée (2010-2023), prom. : Bragard, Véronique ; Parent, Sabrina, 07/11/2024.