Autor: Rudolphe Töpffer

In his role as a professor of rhetoric and belle-lettres at the Academy of Geneva, Töpffer not only wrote popular fiction (graphic novels, novels, plays), but also a host of scholarly works addressing the relationship between aesthetics and poetics. Sergio C. Figueiredo is an Assistant Professor of Media and Rhetoric in the Department of English at Kennesaw State University. He received his Ph D in Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design from Clemson University, and his MA in English from Marshall University. His research focuses on the intersections of rhetorical theory, media studies, and electracy. His work has appeared in Image Tex T: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies, Journal of Visual Literacy, and In Media Res: A Media Commons Project.