Postdoctoral research in the Arts
My current research project, Drawing Lines, explores how comics-making can be more than storytelling, it can be a way of thinking, questioning, and doing research. I’m interested in what happens when drawing becomes a method, and how visual narratives can help us engage with complex social, political, and cultural issues.
I look at comics not just as a medium, but as a research practice in itself, something that can generate knowledge, shift perspectives, and make room for voices often left out of traditional academic spaces.
In 2024, the project was awarded a KU Leuven research grant, which helps support my ongoing work as a postdoctoral researcher in the Arts.
Journal articles (peer-reviewed)
Forthcoming: Beyond Lost Childhood – Questioning Traditional Perspectives on Childhood through Visual Storytelling by Dragana Radanović, Nancy Vansieleghem, and Roel Vande Winkel, in European Comic Art, special issue on Comic Ethnographies (Summer 2025).
Radanović, D., Lucovnicova, O., Vande Winkel, R. with Lucovnicova, O. (2024). Beyond East and West: Auto (Art) Ethnography – Challenges and Reflections. The International Journal of Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts.
Radanović, D., Vande Winkel, R., Vansieleghem, N. with Radanović, D. (2023). You draw like a child! Interrogating aetonormative tendencies in imitations of children’s drawings in graphic narratives. Comicalités, (Children’s drawings in Comics), Art.No. 8408. doi: 10.4000/comicalites.8408 Open Access
Invited lectures
Radanović, D. (2023). Multimodality in practice – making and reading multimodal narratives. Invited by the University of Antwerp. Presented at The Children’s Literature summer school, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
Radanović, D. (2022). Rethinking Normative Ideas of Childhood through Artistic Practice, Department of Educational Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
Awards
2022. August, ERC Best Poster Award – In person, European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) Emerging Researcher’s Conference Yerevan, Armenia.
2020. Cross-country Comics Residency Program – the first place, The French Institute in Serbia, the International Center for Comics and Illustration (Angouleme, France), the Komunikart Agency and the City of Pancevo.
2020 – 2024 Research Foundation Flanders – Fundamental Research Scholarship
Abstracts/Presentations/Posters
Radanović, D., Vansieleghem, N., Vanistendael, J. (2023). How Climate Change Changed the Art Class. Presented at The European Conference on Educational Research, Glasgow, UK.
Radanović, D., Bugno, L., Agostinetto, L. (2023). How Do Future Teachers Represent Cultural Diversity? Investigations of Changes in Cultural Diversity Beliefs Representations After Intercultural Education Course. Presented at The European Conference on Educational Research, Glasgow, UK.
Radanović, D., Lucovnicova, O., Vande Winkel, R. (2023). Between East and West: Auto (Art) Ethnography – Challenges and Reflections. Presented at the Eighteenth International Conference on the Arts in Society, Krakow, Poland.
Radanović, D. (2022). From educational research to poster – a presentation of the research project: Rethinking Normative Ideas About Childhood Through Artistic Practice. Presented at the From Educational Research to Poster – PhD Course in Pedagogical, Educational and Instructional Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
Radanović, D., Vansieleghem, N., Vande Winkel, R. (2022). Rethinking Normative Ideas About Childhood Through Artistic Practice. (Abstract No. 1851). Presented at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) Emerging Researcher’s Conference, Yerevan, Armenia.
Radanović, D., Vande Winkel, R., Vansieleghem, N. (2022). You Draw Like a Child! Mimicking a Child’s Drawing Style as an Exercise of Aetonormativity. Presented at the Research Workshop: Children’s Drawings in Comics, Ghent University Museum.
Radanović, D. (2021). Project Redrawing childhood. Presented at the Doctoral seminar research unit Image, LUCA School of Arts, Campus Sint-Lucas Ghent, Belgium.
Radanović, D. (2021). Graphic storytelling: an attempt to materialise and transform aetonormativity in the narrative about childhood. Presented at the Children’s Literature Summer School, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Creations in the Arts or Design
2023. Radanović, D. et al. Kod Kuće – Antologija kratkog stripa o radu od kuće i “sa kućom”. Artist’s book. COBISS.SR-ID 12344039.
2023. Tamburić, Ž., Stojanović, M., with contributions by Radanović, D. et al. Beyond Comics: A Look into the Artworks of Comics Authors from Serbia / Izvan kvadrata: Pogled na umetničke radove stripskih autora iz Srbije. Exhibition, International Comics Festival Belgrade / Salon Stripa SKC. COBISS.SR-ID 122894345.
2022. Radanović, D. New image of childhood. (Exhibition). Venue: The House of the Authors / La Maison des Auteurs, Angoulême, France.
Radanović, D. with Kosić, V. (curator) My Room. (Exhibition). Venue: Residence of Princess Ljubica, Belgrade, Serbia.