The Social Genres of Comics Impact and Innovation of Comics in Social Sciences

Veronica Moretti  is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Business Law, University of Bologna, Italy. She is the Director of the First Cycle Degree Program in Sociology and a member of the University’s Bioethics Committee. Her research focuses on the use of creative and visual methods in health and medical sociology. She serves on the board of the European Society for Health and Medical Sociology and on the board of the ESA Research Network on Risk and Uncertainty. She is also one of the founders and Vice President of the Italian Graphic Medicine Association, which promotes the use of graphic novels in healthcare and medical education. Additionally, she is a founding member of Graphic Anatomy, a comic book series published by BeccoGiallo.

Francesco Della Puppa  is Associate Professor in Sociology at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. He carries out research and teaching activities on topics such as international migration; migrant family and the process of family reunification; social construction of masculinity and migration; digital work an Gig Economy, migrant labour; the Bangladeshi diaspora. He is interested in ethno-graphic novel, social sciences through comics, and in establishing academic, scientific, social and human relations with Cuba.