Elizabeth “Biz” Nijdam is an Assistant Professor in German Studies. She graduated from the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 2017, after receiving her Masters in Germanic Studies from the University of Victoria in 2007. Her dissertation, “‘Drawing for me means communication’: Anke Feuchtenberger and German Art Comics after 1989,” traces East German artistic traditions, transnational feminist discourses, and the politics of German unification into the comics and graphic art of East German artist Anke Feuchtenberger.

Biz currently teaches GERM 412 001: German Media Studies (In English) with the BMS program.