Do you think the conference Q&A is too short? I sure do! I can’t get enough of the coffee break chats, so it’s been such a pleasure to get to speak to scholars at length about their work, and a…
This series of public debates were organized by Mgr. Katerina Brezinova, Ph.D. (Head of the Iberoamerican Studies Center, Department of International Relations & European Studies at the Metropolitan University Prague), and now are being released in podcast form for a…
I had a few tables set up at Noc Vědců, a good amount of visitors (some returned from last year!), and saw new poetry, spooky stories, and comics about youthful misadventures. Following the evidence and suggestions in Bec Evans, Chris…
I am incredibly excited to be included in this issue of Inks, the journal of the Comics Studies Society, alongside great studies by Manuela Di Franco (From Funnies to Adventures: Translation, Censorship, and Adaptation of American Comics in Fascist Italy), …
Writing Workshop at Palacky University A continuation of the History in Comics project brought 21 participants for an intensive week in Olomouc to work on their academic writing, creative writing and comics composition. This was the pitch: Come start or…
Hot off the presses: Interviews with scholars on New Books Network Comics Studies channel and processing books and conversations through comics. scholarshipinshort.com
A new chapter just got published! “Medievalist Comic Book Characters and Their Feminist Readers”, in 21st Century Medievalisms: Between the Global and Individual, edited by Karl Christian Alvestad (2023). Here’s a short excerpt: In cosplay, by avoiding the “new” Red…
Better Living Through Comics was held at Cambridge Faculty of Education this July (still the beloved annual Joint Conference of the International Graphic Novel & Comics and the International Bande Dessinée Society we know). I participated in a great round…
We had a great time at the Historiographics Conference held at the Amerikahaus in Munich this June! The main keynote speaker for the conference was none other than Hillary Chute who gave a talk titled “Comics at the End of…
Comics-based ethnographies and ethno-graphic novels This year in Trento, at the 9th Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference, on Thursday June 8, 16:15-19:15, there will be a lovely series of presentations on comics within ethnographic research. Chaired by: Veronica Moretti (University…