Markus Streb is a PhD student at Justus-Liebig-University, Gießen. He earned a teaching degree (state examination) in 2014 and in the same year started his PhD project on gender representations in comics about the Shoah. The working title is: Comic. Holocaust. Gender. Gender Constructions in Sequential Representations of the Holocaust. Streb teaches classes and lectures about the representation of the Second World War and National Socialism in comics. He is a member of the “Comics Initiative Gießen,” “AG Comicforschung” and the “Gesellschaft für Comicforschung.”