Stephan Packard

Stephan Packard (born 1978) is a German media and literary scholar. His academic career has included positions at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the University of Freiburg and the University of Cologne. His research focuses on media semiotics, comics, censorship and media control, popular visual cultures and narratology. As an editor, he has contributed to volumes including “Being Untruthful. Lying, Fiction, and the Non-Factual” (2021), “The Social, Political, and Ideological Semiotics of Comics and Cartoons” (2022) and “Innovative Methods in Multimodal Comics Research” (2023).