Jan-Noël Thon is Professor and Chair of Media Studies and Media Education at Osnabrück University, Germany, where he also leads the MediaLab. His research interests focus on the aesthetics, narrativity, and postdigitality of contemporary media forms and media cultures as well as on the interdisciplinary fields of film studies, television studies, comics studies, game studies, and critical AI studies. Book publications include From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels (co-edited with Daniel Stein, De Gruyter 2013), Storyworlds across Media (co-edited with Marie-Laure Ryan, University of Nebraska Press 2014), Game Studies (co-edited with Klaus Sachs-Hombach, von Halem 2015), Transmedial Narratology and Contemporary Media Culture (University of Nebraska Press 2016), Subjectivity across Media (co-edited with Maike Sarah Reinerth, Routledge 2017), Comicanalyse (co-authored with Stephan Packard, Andreas Rauscher, Véronique Sina, Lukas R.A. Wilde, and Janina Wildfeuer, Metzler 2019), Comics and Videogames (co-edited with Andreas Rauscher and Daniel Stein, Routledge 2021), Bildmedien (co-edited with Frauke Berndt, De Gruyter 2023), Comics and Agency (co-edited with Vanessa Ossa and Lukas R.A. Wilde, De Gruyter 2023), AI Aesthetics (co-edited with Lukas R.A. Wilde, Routledge 2025), Videogames and Metareference (co-edited with Theresa Krampe, Routledge 2025), and Postdigitale Ästhetik (De Gruyter 2026).