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PhD student, KULeuven,Comics studies, cultural studies, book studiesCharlotte Pylyser is a PhD student at the Catholic University of Leuven. She operates from a cultural studies background and her research concerns the phenomenon of the Flemish graphic novel in particular and issues of culture, institutionalisation and materiality with regard to comics in general.  She sits on the editorial board of Image[&#38;]Narrative.publications&#160;