Happy to announce that Kremena Dimitrova will be joining us in Olomouc on Friday the 11th of October for a double feature – the lecture takes place at 9am CET (KAA 2.40), and the workshop will start at 3pm…
What’s the best way to review a graphic novel? In comics form! I’m clearly not the first one to try this – for other examples, check out Davies, P., (2018) “Enacting Graphic Mark-Making: A Review of A Theory of Narrative…
(Comic by Ken Nash at FAMU’s Comics and Film conference, interesting to see what he took away from the paper.) It was a busy conference season! 59th International Congress on Medieval Studies 10 May 2024, Western Michigan…
Really chuffed to get to go into an actual TV studio – the very helpful and friendly tech (thank you, Roman!) made this late night appearance more manageable. The moderator, Martin Řezníček, has excellent experience covering the USA, so the…
The conference was two days of AMAZING presentations! Thank you to all the participants and our enthusiastic audience members! See more information about the conference here.
My book is moving through the publication pipes and will hopefully be released in October 2024! You can see a full description at the publisher’s page here (Springer Nature / Palgrave). If you are incredibly wealthy and personally fund a…
For someone tasked with teaching American history and contemporary issues, it’s been a pleasure to offer some context around current events in American culture and society! While I don’t accept every invitation to comment (certainly declining topics which I am…
A new chapter just got published, officially out in July! “The Medievalist Simulacra of Kafka’s The Castle in Graphic Adaptations”, in Medievalisms in a Global Age. Edited by Angela Jane Weisl and Robert Squillace Boydell & Brewer, 2024. Here’s a short excerpt: Through their…
We are excited to welcome guest Andrea Hoff to our online (school’s out for summer) lecture at the Comics Lab! This talk aims to collectively explore methods in which the theories and methods of critical posthumanism can be interwoven into teaching…
I finally got called on by the science section of Czech Television Studio 6 to talk about art and history! Still as many language flubs as ever, but I’m very happy that I got to share some context about the…