Werther Xu

Biography

Daishan Xu (Werther) is currently a second-year PhD student at the University of the Arts London; her PhD supervisors are Dr. Ian Horton and Dr. Jess Baines. Werther's research mainly focuses on gender representation in Asian teenage adventure comics. The title of Werther's PhD research is Breaking Gender Stereotypes in Chinese Shaonian Comics. Werther is also an experienced commercial illustrator and is currently creating her own adventure graphic novel. Werther's research interests also include transcultural comic studies and the relationship between the supernatural powers in adventure comics and the mysticism of reality.