Éric Chevrel is a Senior Lecturer of German at Sorbonne Université’s Department of Germanic and Scandinavian Studies, where he teaches literature, translation and Austrian history. His research explores the links between politics, identity and literature and focuses chiefly on Austrian literature of the 19^th and 20^thcenturies as well as on German-language comics of the 20^th and 21^st centuries. He has studied the political discourse in Austrian literature through Doderer’s rewriting of Dostoevsky’s Demons, through Franz Grillparzer’s and Joseph Roth’s critical reappraisal of the Napoleonic myth and through the relations between play and exile in Stefan Zweig’s works. His interest in German-language comics has led him to investigate its different forms since the 1990s, whether it be as reinterpretations of classical works (see Ralf König’s refashioning of Lysistrata and Othello), as autobiographical graphic novels (Ulli Lust’s Viennese punk odyssey through Sicily), or as remembrance series (Flix’s brief fictions on divided Germany).