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Lukas R.A. Wilde

Lukas R.A. Wilde

Associate Professor
Department of Art and Media Studies
Department of Language and Literature

lukas.r.a.wilde@ntnu.no
+4773592376 Bygg 8, 8437 , Dragvoll
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Dr. Lukas R.A. Wilde is Associate Professor at the Department of Art and Media Studies of the NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. He studied theatre and media; Japanese; and philosophy at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, and the Gakugei University of Tokyo, Japan. From 2017 to 2022 he was a research associate at the Collaborative Research Unit 923 „Threatened Order: Societies under Stress“ and the Department of Media Studies of the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany.

His media studies dissertation on the functions of ‘characters’ (kyara) within everyday communication of contemporary Japanese society was awarded the Roland-Faelske-Award 2018 for the best dissertation in Comics and Animation Studies as well as the GIB Dissertation Award 2021 of the Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Pictures. His article „Material Conditions and Semiotic Affordances: Natsume Fusanosuke’s Many Fascinations with the Lines of Manga“ was recognized with an Honorable Mention for the 2021 Martin Schüwer Publication Prize for Outstanding Comics Studies.

He is the Vice President of the German Society for Comic Studies (ComFor) and a member and former spokesperson of the Committee for Comic Studies (AG Comicforschung) of the German Society of Media Studies (GfM). Lukas Wilde is also one of the organizers and founders of the digital artists initiative Comic Solidarity and the GINCO Award (The German Inclusive Comic Award of the Independent Scene).

Main research points:

Generative AI-imagery;
Transmedia studies;
Comic/manga studies;
Emoji research;
Japanese popular culture;
Webcomics and digital comics;
Media-comparative narratology;
Pictorial semiotics;
Diagrammatics


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Publications

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2023

  • Wilde, Lukas Roland Athanasius. (2023) Comics & Agency. Walter de Gruyter (De Gruyter). 2023. ISBN 9783110754407.
    Academic anthology/Conference proceedings

2021

  • Wilde, Lukas R. A.. (2021) Threat Communication and the US Order after 9/11: Medial Reflections. Routledge. 2021. ISBN 9780367246556.
    Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
  • Wilde, Lukas Roland Athanasius. (2021) The Social, Political and Ideological Semiotics of Comics and Cartoons. Special-Themed Issue of Punctum: international Journal of Semiotics. Punctum. International Journal of Semiotics. volum 7 (1).
    Editorial

2019

  • Wilde, Lukas R. A.. (2019) Emoticons, Kaomoji, and Emoji: The Transformation of Communication in the Digital Age. Routledge. 2019. ISBN 9780429491757.
    Academic anthology/Conference proceedings

Journal publications

  • Wilde, Lukas Roland Athanasius. (2021) The Social, Political and Ideological Semiotics of Comics and Cartoons. Special-Themed Issue of Punctum: international Journal of Semiotics. Punctum. International Journal of Semiotics. volum 7 (1).
    Editorial

Books

  • Wilde, Lukas Roland Athanasius. (2023) Comics & Agency. Walter de Gruyter (De Gruyter). 2023. ISBN 9783110754407.
    Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
  • Wilde, Lukas R. A.. (2021) Threat Communication and the US Order after 9/11: Medial Reflections. Routledge. 2021. ISBN 9780367246556.
    Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
  • Wilde, Lukas R. A.. (2019) Emoticons, Kaomoji, and Emoji: The Transformation of Communication in the Digital Age. Routledge. 2019. ISBN 9780429491757.
    Academic anthology/Conference proceedings

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