Bernhard Frena: Impulse lecture on Steven Appleby
Bernhard Frena is a Media Studies scholar and board member of the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Comicforschung und -vermittlung (OeGeC). He lives and works in Vienna. His research revolves around queer comics and net cultures. He is particularly interested in the dynamics between fans and producers, the mediality of gender and sexuality, and the political potential of pop culture. He is a member of the AG Comicforschung in the Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft (GfM).

Elisabeth Klar: Impulse lecture on Pénélope Bagieu
Elisabeth Klar, studied Comparative Literature and Transcultural Communication. In 2011, together with Barbara Eder and Ramon Reichert, she edited Theorien des Comic - Ein Reader (transcript, Bielefeld). Diploma thesis in comparative literature 2012 on the body and its structural parody in literature and comics. Member of the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Comicforschung und -vermittlung (OeGeC) and the AG Comicforschung in der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft. Elisabeth Klar works as a writer and in software development.

Elisabeth Krieber: Impulse lecture on Alison Bechdel
Elisabeth Krieber is an American Studies and Comics scholar and currently works as a lecturer at the University of Salzburg. Her research focuses on comics and literary studies, gender and queer studies as well as intermediality and adaptation research. She wrote her dissertation entitled "Adapting Autographics: Phoebe Gloeckner's and Alison Bechdel's Transgressive and Queer Subjectivities from Page to Stage and Screen" at the University of Salzburg and excerpts of her research have been published in the e-journal Closure. She is a member of the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Comicforschung und -vermittlung (OeGeC) and the AG Comicforschung in der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft (GfM).

Kalina Kupczynska: Impulse lecture on Aisha Franz
Kalina Kupczynska is a German Studies and Literature scholar and works as a research assistant at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Lodz (Poland). She is a scholarship holder of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the ÖAD, the DAAD and the Polish National Science Centre. She is also a member of the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Comicforschung und -vermittlung (OeGeC) and the AG Comicforschung in der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft (GfM), and since 2020 has been a member of the jury for the Martin Schüwer Publication Prize for outstanding comics research. She has published on the German-language avant-garde, on German-language contemporary literature, on comic adaptations of literary texts, on gender aspects in comics and on comic autobiographies.

Naomi Lobnig: Impulse lecture on Barbara Yelin
Naomi Lobnig studies Gender Studies at the University of Vienna. She completed her teacher training in German/Spanish with a Master's thesis in the field of Graphic Medicine/Pathography, with a special focus on queer*feminist theories. Activities at the University of Vienna: project assistant at the German Studies Department (visualities of gender in German-language comics) and student assistant and tutor at the Romance Studies Department. In addition, she gives workshops in the context of queer*feminist children's and youth work.

Marina Rauchenbacher: Impulse lecture on Anke Feuchtenberger
Marina Rauchenbacher is a cultural, literary and comics scholar and works at the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She is co-applicant and collaborator of the FWF project Visualities of Gender in German-language Comics (University of Vienna), board member of the Arbeitskreis Kulturanalyse, co-founder of the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Comicforschung und -vermittlung (OeGeC) and member of the AG Comicforschung in der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft (GfM). Her research and teaching interests include German-language literature, comics, visual cultures and gender studies.

Katharina Serles: Impulse lecture on spring kollektiv
Katharina Serles is a cultural worker, literature and comics scholar as well as co-applicant and research assistant in the FWF project Visualities of Gender in German-language Comics at the University of Vienna. Her research and teaching focus is on comics, literature and visual arts, gender studies and image theory. She is, among other things, co-founder of the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Comicforschung und -vermittlung (OeGeC) and member of the AG Comicforschung in der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft (GfM).

Véronique Sina: Impulse lecture on Julie DoucetVéronique Sina is a Media Studies scholar and currently works as a substitute professor at the Ruhr University in Bochum. She is a member of the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Comicforschung und -vermittlung (OeGeC), the DFG network "Gender, Medien und Affekt" and an associate member of the Siegen research centre "Queer/ing Popular Culture". Her research focuses on gender media and queer studies, media aesthetics, comics, intersectionality and intermediality research. She is the initiator and co-founder of the AG Comicforschung in the Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft (GfM).