Matthew Barrett is an AMS History of Medicine post-doctoral fellow. His project titled “Visualizing the Invisible Wound” examines the historical representations of war trauma using a methodology that combines graphic history and graphic medicine. As an historian and an artist, he is interested in exploring graphic and illustrative storytelling as creative forms of historical interpretation and analysis. At USask, he is working with Dr. Erika Dyck. Matt has a PhD in history from Queen’s University and completed a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship at the Canadian War Museum in 2021. His published academic work has appeared in Canadian Historical Review, Canadian Journal of History, Journal of Canadian Studies, Histoire sociale/Social History, and Canadian Military History. He wrote Scandalous Conduct: Canadian Officer Courts Martial, 1914–45 (UBC Press, 2022) and illustrated and co-wrote Through Their Eyes: A Graphic History of Hill 70 and Canada’s First World War(MQUP, 2022).
