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Janine M. Utell started the topic MLA Sit and Writes Announced for Fall 2023! in the discussion
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 1 week agoPlease join us for our first MLA Sit and Write of Fall 2023! Katherine Fusco will offer a Snack on “How to Write a Book Proposal in Five Easy Steps,” Thursday, 21 September.
Learn more about this fall’s Sit and Write sessions, and last year’s recordings, here: https://www.mla.org/Resources/Career/MLA-Sit-and-Write-Sessions
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Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: Making Queer Comics in the discussion
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoCall for Papers
Making Queer Comics: Foundations and Touchstones
NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
“Making Queer Comics: Foundations and Touchstones” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi (advance contract). This volume will survey the work of foundational figu…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic Call for Abstracts: Making Queer Comics (edited collection, UP Mississippi, 7/1) in the discussion
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoCall for Papers (please share)
Making Queer Comics: Foundations and Touchstones
“Making Queer Comics: Foundations and Touchstones” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi (advance contract). This volume will survey the work of foundational figures in LGBTQ+ comics art and…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited Syllabus: Comics and ImageText in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoGraduate seminar syllabus: In this seminar, we will explore the contemporary comic, considering literary and cultural works across a range of platforms and markets. Comics are still frequently (and historically) associated with popular culture, and linked to children’s literature and mass media, even as they loom large through big and small screen…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic CELJ professional development/mentoring opportunity: Chat with an Editor in the discussion
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoSharing in my role of Secretary of CELJ…please disseminate widely to graduate students and ECRs… ~ Janine Utell
The Council of Editors of Learned Journals is hosting its annual Chat with an Editor program, in an expanded edition and in conjunction with the virtual Modern Language Association Convention. The Chat provides 20-minute time…[Read more]
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Isabelle Hesse started the topic Family and Conflict in Graphic Narratives, Special Issue for Studies in Comics in the discussion
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoFamily and Conflict in Graphic Narratives, Special Issue for Studies in Comics
Call for Articles, Interviews, and Comics
Even though family relationships are at the heart of many graphic narratives, particularly relationships between parents and children (one can think of examples like Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and Art Spiegelman’s Maus), few s…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: College Teaching (with) Unflattening (edited volume) in the discussion
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 3 years agoUnfurling Unflattening: Tracing Pedagogical Possibilities within Higher Education (Round Two)
Link here: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2020/09/08/unfurling-unflattening-tracing-pedagogical-possibilities-within-higher-educationdeadline for submissions: October 30, 2020
full name / name of organization: Janine Utell
contact em…[Read more]
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A. David Lewis deposited CFP – Graphic Medicine at PCA 2021 in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 3 years agoIn conjunction with the Popular Culture Association (PCA) holding their 2021 conference in Boston, contributors and attendees of the New England Graphic Medicine (NEGM) Virtual Summit are proposing a slate of programming that now is welcoming additional participants.
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A. David Lewis deposited Graphic Medicine Quantified: An Annotated Bibliography in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoA challenge for Graphic Medicine is its being juxtaposed alongside biomedical and scientific fields of work that operate largely in the realm of statistics and quantifiable analytics. Often, the scholarship in Graphic Medicine comes without numbers. It is anecdotal, experiential, aesthetic/literary, or theoretical, customarily, and only…[Read more]
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Isabelle Hesse started the topic CFP: Family and Conflict in Graphic Narratives in the discussion
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months agoFamily and Conflict in Graphic Narratives, Special Issue for Studies in Comics
Call for Articles, Interviews, and Comics
Even though family relationships are at the heart of many graphic narratives, particularly relationships between parents and children (one can think of examples like Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and Art Spiegelman’s Maus), few s…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited Theory and Practice of Interactive Storytelling Syllabus in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoPart of the Digital Media MA / Texts & Technology PhD Digital Media track at the University of Central Florida. In this graduate course, we’ll engage with the making and critique of interactive works ranging from “Choose Your Own Adventure” comics to electronic literature and interactive fiction. Drawing on readings including Janet Murray’s Hamlet…[Read more]
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A. David Lewis deposited 2020 New England Graphic Medicine Conference Call for Papers (CFP) in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months ago2020 New England Graphic Medicine Conference
Call for Papers
MARCH 26-28, 2020
[Deadline: January 10, 2020]Graphic Medicine is a genre, a field, a tool, a community, and a cause. It is large enough to accommodate all health and medical experiences, from that of the doctor to that of the patient – from that of a microbe to that of a p…[Read more]
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Roger Whitson deposited ENGL 494: English Capstone — Comics and Graphic Novels in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoThis section of 494 provides students with an introduction to the reading, history, and making of comics and graphic novels. Comics have often been associated with popular culture, pulp fiction, and ephemerality. Yet comics merge image and text to create a unique form of sequential art that is becoming ever more visible and influential in our…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: Unfurling Unflattening (edited collection) in the discussion
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoCall for Chapters—Edited Volume
Unfurling Unflattening: Tracing Theoretical, Methodological, and Pedagogical Possibilities
Janine Utell, Widener University, Amanda O. Latz, Ball State University, Andrea Kantrowitz, SUNY at New Paltz, Editors
The publication of Nick Sousanis’s Unflattening (2015) created an unprecedented stir among schol…[Read more]
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Kay Sohini Kumar deposited On the Crisis of Creation: A Short Comic in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoOn the Crisis of Creation is a short comic about the comic artists’ equivalent of a writer’s block.
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A. David Lewis deposited Cancer and Comic Books: Distinguishing the Subgenre [Poster] in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoFor at least the last twenty years, scholarly attention has been drawn to the numerous depictions of cancer in comic books as well as oncology’s use of the comics medium (Rhode and Connor, 2012). However, little in the way of comprehensive analysis has been attempted, especially in terms of the various genres addressed. In this presentation, a ca…[Read more]
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A. David Lewis deposited Graphic Medicine (HUM450AJ.O) syllabus in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months agoAt the intersection of comics and medicine is the rise of the Graphic Medicine scholarship field. This course examines the ways in which the sequentialized hybrid of word and image is bringing new insights to patient, healthcare, and clinical experiences.
In any manner of ways, the comics medium (whether known as comic books, graphic novels,…[Read more]
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A. David Lewis deposited Distinguishing the Comic Book Subgenre of Cancer Narratives in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoAn overview of proposed categories for the growing graphic medicine genre of cancer comics (i.e. cancer narratives in comic book form) and an initial theory on the significant linkage between this illness and particular medium.
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A. David Lewis deposited It’s Time for LISSA in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoReview of LISSA: A STORY ABOUT MEDICAL PROMISE, FRIENDSHIP, AND REVOLUTION (University of Toronto Press) by Sherine Hamdy, Coleman Nye, Sarula Bao, and Caroline Brewer
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A. David Lewis deposited A Talk about Religion in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoAnd interview between Julian Darius and A. David Lewis in LAZARUS, THE FOREVER MAN #0 (Martian Lit).
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