Christophe Dony est assistant au sein du département des langues et littératures modernes de l’Université de Liège. Il mène une thèse de doctorat consacrée à la poétique de réécriture du label Vertigo (DC Comics). De manière plus générale, ses recherches portent sur les liens entre bande dessinée, histoire culturelle, et critique postcoloniale. Ses articles ont notamment été publiés dans des revues telles que The International Journal of Comic Art, Studies in Comics, Comicalités : Études de Culture Graphique, ou encore sur les aca-blogs The Comics Grid et Comics Forum. Il a aussi co-édité le volume Portraying 9/11 : Essays on Representations in Comics, Literature, Film and Theatre (McFarland, 2011) et a, plus récemment, co-dirigé le premier ouvrage collectif de la collection ACME : La bande dessinée en dissidence : Alternative, indépendance, auto-édition (PUlg, 2014).

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Christophe Dony works as a PhD student in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Liège, Belgium. He is currently writing a dissertation exploring DC Comics/Vertigo’s poetics and politics of rewriting. More generally, his research focuses on the connections between comics, cultural history, and postcolonial criticism. His articles have appeared in various publications such as The International Journal of Comic Art, Studies in Comics, Comicalités: Études de Culture Graphique, The Comics Grid and Comics Forum. He has also co-edited Portraying 9/11: Essays on Representations in Comics, Literature, Film and Theatre (McFarland, 2011) and, more recently, the ACME series’ first essay collection: Comics in Dissent : Alternative, Independence, Self-Publishing (PUlg, 2014).