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Marina Della Putta Johnston posted an update in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 1 month, 3 weeks agoCfp: Gothic States, 29-31 March 2018
An international interdisciplinary conference on “Gothic States” in literature, cinema, and across the arts, will be hosted by the Center for Italian Studies and the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania 29-31 March 2018. See conference page at…[Read more]
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David Wacks started the topic Graphic novels in English on Hispanic/Latino world in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 5 months, 3 weeks agoThis fall I am piloting a gen Ed 100-level course on Cultures of the Spanish-Speaking world in comics. Can anyone recommend good teachable graphic novels on the pre-Columbian world and/or discovery, and also on topics in 18th/19th c.? I’m planning on using Fuentes’ _Buried Mirror_ to frame it and bring short primary documents interspersed with the…
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic MLA 2018 CFP: Connecting the Dots: Museums and Comics (12 March 2017) in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 6 months agoConnecting the Dots: Museums and Comics
Drawing from art theorist André Malraux—“The museum invites comparison of each of the expressions of the world it brings together, and forces us to question what it is that brings them together,” what indeed brings comics and museums into dialogue and/or dispute over exhibitionary spaces and praxis?…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano posted an update in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 6 months agoCFP: Connecting the Dots: Museums and Comics (MLA 2018)
Drawing from art theorist André Malraux—“The museum invites comparison of each of the expressions of the world it brings together, and forces us to question what it is that brings them together,”¬ what indeed brings comics and museums into dialogue and/or dispute over exhibitionary spaces…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic REMINDER: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (12/1/16) in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 months, 2 weeks agoThe deadline for abstracts looms!
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the comics of Alison Bechdel, offer…[Read more]
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Juan Meneses started the topic CFP ASLE 2017: Comics, Graphic Novels, and the Environment (June 20-24 2017) in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 10 months, 2 weeks agoThis panel for the next ASLE Conference seeks to offer a range of explorations of environmental and ecological themes in comics and graphic novels. Whereas the conference’s “Rust/Resistance” special topic should provide cohesion to the panel, papers that expand the study of comics and graphic novels from any environmental lens are also welco…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited Syllabus: Digital Cultures & Narrative in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 1 year agoUndergraduate syllabus for a course combining media studies with creative production practices in digital narratives and culture. Designed for delivery online, with an emphasis on individual projects.
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Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: The Comics of Alison Bechdel in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 1 year, 1 month agoCall for Papers
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the comics of Alison Bechdel, offering new exa…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell uploaded the file: CFP: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (edited collection, DEADLINE 12/1/16) to
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 1 year, 1 month agoAbstracts are sought for an edited collection on the comics of Alison Bechdel for the Critical Approaches to Comics Artists series at UP of Mississippi. Interdisciplinary approaches welcome; deadline 12/1/16
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Sean Guynes deposited Fatal Attractions: AIDS and American Superhero Comics, 1988-1994 in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 1 year, 4 months agoBetween 1988 and 1994 American comic books engaged the politics, problematics, and crises of the AIDS epidemic by injecting the virus and its social, cultural, and epidemiological effects on gay men into the four-color fantasies of the superhero genre. As the comic-book industry was undergoing major internal changes that allowed for more mature,…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP for MLA 2017: Alien Lines in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months agoAlien Lines: Science Fiction Comics
The medium of comics—often dominated by genres bound to contemporary concerns or enduring conventions—remains marginal in the study of science fiction. Likewise, the oldest questions driving science fiction scholarship—identity and difference, self and other, chance and futurity—have not been central to comics…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP for MLA 2017: Adaptation in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months agoDrawing the Line: Comics and Adaptation
While comics adaptations have frequently been derided for “dumbing down” great works of literature through adaptation, recent movie adaptations of comics have conquered the box office and brought new attention to the medium. These intriguing developments beg the questions—How might comics be trans…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP for MLA 2017: Temporality in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months agoGraphic Narrative, Comics, and Temporality
Whether we consider the fragmentation of time in the Dr. Manhattan chapter of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen, or Art Spiegleman’s intermingling of his father’s WWII past with his present as narrator in Maus, rendering time as space has been one of the most unique and commented upon formal aspect…[Read more]
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Lissette Lopez Szwydky started the topic CFP2017: Adaptation, Transmediation in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months agoCFP: MLA2017 Adaptation, Transmediation: The Narrative Boundaries of Genre, Medium, and Time
Special Session
How do adaptation and transmediation push the boundaries and possibilities of literature? Transnational and transhistorical perspectives especially welcome. CV and 500-word abstracts by 11 March 2016; Lissette Lopez Szwydky (lissette@uark.edu). -
Cesar Braga-Pinto started the topic CFP 2017: Luso Brazilian Graphic Narratives in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months agoLuso Brazilian Graphic Narratives
Description: This panel explores different forms of graphic narrative from the Luso-Brazilian world, including, but not limited to political cartoons, graphic novels, comic strips and graffiti.
Deadline for submissions: 14 March 2016Submission requirements:
250 word abstractsContact person information
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Martha B. Kuhlman started the topic CFP 2017 Graphic Narrative, Comics, and Temporality in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months agoComics and Graphic Narrative Forum Modern Language Association Panel 2017:
Graphic Narrative, Comics, and Temporality
Whether we consider the fragmentation of time in the Dr. Manhattan chapter of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen, or Art Spiegleman’s intermingling of his father’s WWII past with his present as narrator in Maus, rende…[Read more]
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Eileen McGinnis deposited The Anachronistic Ada: Inventing a Twenty-First-Century Public for a Nineteenth-Century Programmer in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months agoToday, Lady Lovelace is recognized as the first computer programmer – for an algorithm she co-authored with inventor Charles Babbage in 1843. She has also become, per biographer Betty Toole, a “modern myth,” whose very ambiguity and otherness encourage readers’ self-invention around gender and tech, human-machine interactions, and female sexuali…[Read more]
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Philip Smith replied to the topic Discuss Philip Smith's CORE uploads in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months agoThanks Nicky,
I only just joined MLA Commons and didn’t realise notice of my uploads would be emailed directly to the group. Sorry if it seemed like spam – quite unintentional.
If anyone does have any thoughts on my papers I would love to hear your feedback.
Best wishes,
Phil
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Nicky Agate started the topic Discuss Philip Smith's CORE uploads in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months agoAs you may have seen, Philip Smith uploaded several comics-related articles to CORE, the MLA repository, yesterday. Should the group wish to respond or comment on the articles—or any others—please feel free to use this thread to do so.
To view the articles, either click on CORE at the top of the page, or on Deposits in the left-hand menu.
Thanks!
Nicky
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Philip Smith deposited Spiegelman Studies Part 2 of 2: Breakdowns, No Towers and the Rest of the Canon in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months agoArt Spiegelman is one of the most-discussed creators in Comic Book Studies. His Pulitzer-winning work Maus (1980 and 1991) was, alongside The Dark Knight Returns (1986) and Watchmen (1987), the catalyst to a sea change in the commercial and critical fortunes of the alternative comic book during the mid-1980s. It has been a landmark text in…[Read more]
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