Nicholas Derda
Pronouns He / Him / His
Email derda@usc.edu
Biography
Nick Derda is a PhD candidate where he is currently completing his dissertation entitled, Visualizing Queer Care: Comics and Counterpublic Health in the Age of AIDS, which examines how activists, artists, and community-based organizations used comics to shape the course of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States. Comics were used to spread vital information about the epidemic and to help vulnerable communities imagine a collective future at a moment when the crisis felt hopeless. They functioned as instructional guides about safer sex and harm reduction; as forums to...
Education
- M.A. Gender Studies, George Washington University, 5/2018
- BA Spanish, Valparaiso University, 5/2012
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Research Keywords
HIV/AIDS; Queer Studies; Comics Studies; Visual Studies; Biopolitics; Science and Technology Studies; Performance Studies; Latinx Studies; Archival Methods