Life as a Comics-Focused PhD Student

Victoria Ramirez Rahbar (she/they) is a PhD student at the University of British Columbia School of Information. Before coming to Canada, she earned a Master of Arts in East Asian Studies at Stanford University and received a Master of Library and Information Science degree from the University of Washington. Previously she worked in academic libraries. Her research interests include cultural representation in manga, seeking out narratives around disability and neurodiversity, and manga in postsecondary education and academic library collections.