Lou Braibant is an affiliated librarian/archiver working in the comics collections at the Faculty Library of Arts and Philosophy.
Lou’s research interests lie in Tolkien studies, comics studies, and ecocriticism. He submitted his thesis on an analysis of “art” in Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven. A second thesis zoomed in on the Brussels zine scene and its relation to ecological themes. He is currently working on a pre-PhD FWO fundamental research proposal under the supervision of Prof. Maaheen Ahmed and Prof. Marco Caracciolo.