The two-day workshop “Queer Narratology” took place at the University of Vienna on 25–26 February 2026 and brought together scholars from Vienna, Berlin, Warsaw and Manchester. It opened with a public lecture series on queer narratives and a reading group on theoretical approaches to queer narratology. Three panels followed on queer narrative strategies in literature, life writing, art and comics. The workshop closed with a roundup on the future uses of queer narratology.

My paper focused on Nino Bulling’s comic abfackeln / firebugs (2022). It argued that the comic intertwines ecological crisis and trans embodiment to produce a specifically queer temporality, one marked by suspension, indeterminacy and a refusal of linear development. The paper combined a look at the book’s hybrid materiality with a close reading of one double-page spread. Drawing on concepts such as Eigenzeit, chrononormativity and no futurity, it showed how firebugs performs comics as a queer medium in its own right.