MLA Commons | GS Comics and Graphic Narratives | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/comics-and-graphic-narratives/ Activity feed for the group, GS Comics and Graphic Narratives. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:25:33 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 5f6b05fec25e22dd7c1afdb9595e2eba Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New Article: Banal misogynism in Turkish media in the discussion GS Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/comics-and-graphic-narratives/forum/topic/new-article-banal-misogynism-in-turkish-media-4/ Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:32:06 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education, published a new article titled “Banal misogynism in Turkish media at the beginning of the multi-party era: the case of Boşboğaz” in the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics which is a Q1 journal. You can find the abstract and the link…[Read more]

]]> 0 f58f80810a98ecb4e31ba46e8bff447c Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New creative feminist work: A Misogynist Triptych from 1945 in the discussion GS Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/comics-and-graphic-narratives/forum/topic/new-creative-feminist-work-a-misogynist-triptych-from-1945-18/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 16:14:15 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Sweden’s Linnaeus University prepared “A Misogynist Triptych from 1945” based on cartoon material coming from the Turkish Boşboğaz (Bigmouth) Humor Gazette from 1945. This project was supported by…[Read more]

]]> 0 fda5592c333f610ce6fd9e637ba2c9d5 Janine M. Utell started the topic MLA Sit and Writes Announced for Fall 2023! in the discussion GS Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/comics-and-graphic-narratives/forum/topic/mla-sit-and-writes-announced-for-fall-2023-2/ Tue, 19 Sep 2023 19:44:56 -0400 Please 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

]]> 0 0cccb552468bf52036829bf8b5602f19 Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: Making Queer Comics in the discussion GS Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/comics-and-graphic-narratives/forum/topic/cfp-making-queer-comics/ Tue, 17 Aug 2021 14:27:25 -0400 Call 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]

]]> 0 9b12301c14b2c51393c9bd5fb85e1f47 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/comics-and-graphic-narratives/forum/topic/call-for-abstracts-making-queer-comics-edited-collection-up-mississippi-7-1-2/ Tue, 27 Apr 2021 14:25:52 -0400 Call 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]

]]> 0 f7e4920985b878c4aa5c0fcb5910a5e8 Anastasia Salter deposited Syllabus: Comics and ImageText in the group GS Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1733369/ Wed, 31 Mar 2021 02:23:38 -0400 Graduate 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]

]]> 0 4f5531cab73f090152000afe8332ce67 Janine M. Utell started the topic CELJ professional development/mentoring opportunity: Chat with an Editor in the discussion GS Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/comics-and-graphic-narratives/forum/topic/celj-professional-development-mentoring-opportunity-chat-with-an-editor-2/ Sun, 20 Dec 2020 19:32:21 -0500 Sharing 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]

]]> 0 6fe1fb3ccf09147bbe24168786effad0 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/comics-and-graphic-narratives/forum/topic/family-and-conflict-in-graphic-narratives-special-issue-for-studies-in-comics/ Wed, 04 Nov 2020 09:05:36 -0500 Family 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]

]]> 0 7b7b3074a7ae8d1ed9a8a468b9e2dacf Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: College Teaching (with) Unflattening (edited volume) in the discussion GS Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/comics-and-graphic-narratives/forum/topic/cfp-college-teaching-with-unflattening-edited-volume/ Tue, 15 Sep 2020 15:58:54 -0400 Unfurling 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-education

deadline for submissions: October 30, 2020

full name / name of organization: Janine Utell

contact em…[Read more]

]]> 0 e3084bf1f9b375064c7c17503c325d0f A. David Lewis deposited CFP - Graphic Medicine at PCA 2021 in the group GS Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1708095/ Fri, 11 Sep 2020 02:29:55 -0400 In 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.

]]> 0 0a93f309da2f7f4f687b05c037e91124 A. David Lewis deposited Graphic Medicine Quantified: An Annotated Bibliography in the group GS Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1704744/ Sun, 09 Aug 2020 02:23:42 -0400 A 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]

]]> 0 cfbc3994766a464d0f69f739dfee889b Isabelle Hesse started the topic CFP: Family and Conflict in Graphic Narratives in the discussion GS Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/comics-and-graphic-narratives/forum/topic/cfp-family-and-conflict-in-graphic-narratives/ Fri, 08 May 2020 03:35:53 -0400 Family 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]

]]> 0 ad1fe20f0528b1e1d1996a552c1e0f34 Anastasia Salter deposited Theory and Practice of Interactive Storytelling Syllabus in the group GS Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1673665/ Sun, 29 Dec 2019 16:25:59 -0500 Part 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]

]]> 0 9c14b3920e2753bbc67a9dca3f8cc148 A. David Lewis deposited 2020 New England Graphic Medicine Conference Call for Papers (CFP) in the group GS Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1671898/ Thu, 12 Dec 2019 16:25:22 -0500 2020 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]

]]> 0 de3417d7c668ced1a62bec2db7b058bb Roger Whitson deposited ENGL 494: English Capstone — Comics and Graphic Novels in the group GS Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1660886/ Thu, 22 Aug 2019 03:53:05 -0400 This 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]

]]> 0 000644e20665e2bbb5d52055e3a0e3f1 Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: Unfurling Unflattening (edited collection) in the discussion GS Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/comics-and-graphic-narratives/forum/topic/cfp-unfurling-unflattening-edited-collection/ Wed, 03 Jul 2019 16:38:01 -0400 Call 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]

]]> 0 e0c187f5c176c424e69ac4bf2d793173 Kay Sohini deposited On the Crisis of Creation: A Short Comic in the group GS Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1642495/ Thu, 13 Jun 2019 16:26:25 -0400 On the Crisis of Creation is a short comic about the comic artists’ equivalent of a writer’s block.

]]> 0 b3d4ed438fc5fe7bb8dc6207094e15d8 A. David Lewis deposited Cancer and Comic Books: Distinguishing the Subgenre [Poster] in the group GS Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1639302/ Tue, 30 Apr 2019 16:25:23 -0400 For 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]

]]> 0 aa3f3bb44ce3534af98b3d3412aea118 A. David Lewis deposited Graphic Medicine (HUM450AJ.O) syllabus in the group GS Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1627994/ Sat, 05 Jan 2019 16:26:42 -0500 At 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]

]]> 0 db9f3eb91d2ff06d87eb22af9f3fd94b religioncomics deposited Distinguishing the Comic Book Subgenre of Cancer Narratives in the group GS Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1615877/ Sun, 19 Aug 2018 16:25:23 -0400 An 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.

]]> 0 9d6e531917e2fc249f421130ea03e6df religioncomics deposited It's Time for LISSA in the group GS Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1611353/ Thu, 21 Jun 2018 04:12:28 -0400 Review of LISSA: A STORY ABOUT MEDICAL PROMISE, FRIENDSHIP, AND REVOLUTION (University of Toronto Press) by Sherine Hamdy, Coleman Nye, Sarula Bao, and Caroline Brewer

]]> 0 3a0ebc26c02ba4b50e9948130c63690b A. Lewis deposited A Talk about Religion in the group GS Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1599886/ Wed, 07 Feb 2018 04:13:12 -0500 And interview between Julian Darius and A. David Lewis in LAZARUS, THE FOREVER MAN #0 (Martian Lit).

]]> 0 b38964355229621dbac50807d0403e85 Margaret Galvan started the topic Vote in 2017 MLA Forum Executive Committee Elections in the discussion Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/comics-and-graphic-narratives/forum/topic/vote-for-me-in-2017-mla-forum-executive-committee-elections/ Mon, 13 Nov 2017 22:31:10 -0500 Hi all,

I am one of the candidates in the 2017 MLA Forum Executive Committee Elections for Comics and Graphic Narratives. I’m asking you to vote (by December 10) and to consider voting for me when you fill out your ballot.

I look forward to the possibility of serving in this position as it would allow me to continue proposing cutting-edge comi…[Read more]

]]> 0 ffecd962f897dbbe9e3ff8c95b0af317 David Wacks deposited SPAN 150: Introduction to cultures of the Spanish-speaking world in Comics in the group GS Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1582530/ Fri, 22 Sep 2017 01:00:39 -0400 Description: This course is an introduction to cultures of the Spanish-speaking world with an emphasis on comics and graphic novels. In this course we will learn about the graphic novel as an artistic vehicle for studying the history and cultures of Spain and Latin America (including the Latino US). There will be a series of guest appearances from…[Read more]

]]> 0 63c7a5f8cb4b384ad996c00048792718 Anastasia Salter deposited Principles of Visual Language Syllabus in the group GS Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1579220/ Sat, 19 Aug 2017 01:19:21 -0400 This course focuses on developing visual language literacy and theoretical frameworks through analyzing and creating a range of narrative media. We will examine a range of visual scholarly and creative works, starting with sequential art and moving into time-based and interactive media.

Students will:
1. Learn “close reading” strategies for…[Read more]

]]> 0 f100c2b16e0331d95f053054afeaca8a Marina Della Putta Johnston posted an update in the group GS Comics and Graphic Narratives: Cfp: Gothic States, 29-31 March 2018 An international […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1574856/ Tue, 27 Jun 2017 15:50:01 -0400 Cfp: 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]

]]> 0 0144a97132bd0483e5cb9d1385d3d51d David Wacks started the topic Graphic novels in English on Hispanic/Latino world in the discussion Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/comics-and-graphic-narratives/forum/topic/graphic-novels-in-english-on-hispaniclatino-world/ Sun, 26 Feb 2017 08:34:27 -0500

This 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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]]> 0 ef8f79929165a5bd7ebf699d04d46451 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/comics-and-graphic-narratives/forum/topic/mla-2018-cfp-connecting-the-dots-museums-and-comics-12-march-2017/ Sun, 12 Feb 2017 15:00:35 -0500 Connecting 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]

]]> 0 aee9dd72afe395b2a097e7327bfaec0b Nhora Lucia Serrano posted an update in the group GS Comics and Graphic Narratives: CFP: Connecting the Dots: Museums and Comics (MLA […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1562071/ Sun, 12 Feb 2017 14:56:21 -0500 CFP: 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]

]]> 0 f402c8fea3049c430a28a0b208702b6b Janine M. Utell started the topic REMINDER: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (12/1/16) in the discussion Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/comics-and-graphic-narratives/forum/topic/reminder-the-comics-of-alison-bechdel-12116-4/ Thu, 03 Nov 2016 15:34:44 -0400 The 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]

]]> 0 b07d44b14f27d9ba81fc30c4c8ea1fdd 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/comics-and-graphic-narratives/forum/topic/cfp-asle-2017-comics-graphic-novels-and-the-environment-june-20-24-2017/ Mon, 03 Oct 2016 02:26:35 -0400 This 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]

]]> 0 dee7d2bfd7096285039b015ac15c0df7 Anastasia Salter deposited Syllabus: Digital Cultures & Narrative in the group GS Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549966/ Thu, 11 Aug 2016 14:01:02 -0400 Undergraduate 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.

]]> 0 7650d4f5ba10bb21de8027c153e0c596 Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: The Comics of Alison Bechdel in the discussion Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/comics-and-graphic-narratives/forum/topic/cfp-the-comics-of-alison-bechdel/ Mon, 27 Jun 2016 13:36:34 -0400 Call 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]

]]> 0 46571fe747f9c1045485ef1e91f0746c Janine M. Utell uploaded the file: CFP: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (edited collection, DEADLINE 12/1/16) to GS Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/548883/ Mon, 27 Jun 2016 13:35:30 -0400 Abstracts 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

]]> 0 17a08669aa67195388ffdf9bcf4d685c Sean Guynes deposited Fatal Attractions: AIDS and American Superhero Comics, 1988-1994 in the group GS Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/546775/ Wed, 06 Apr 2016 00:19:25 -0400 Between 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]

]]> 0 97202e6511536cc207b94acb6f4f9408 Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP for MLA 2017: Alien Lines in the discussion Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/comics-and-graphic-narratives/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2017-alien-lines/ Wed, 17 Feb 2016 23:32:02 -0500 Alien 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]

]]> 0 b52f67d320ba60398569e8c9942d71c0 Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP for MLA 2017: Adaptation in the discussion Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/comics-and-graphic-narratives/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2017-adaptation/ Wed, 17 Feb 2016 23:30:42 -0500 Drawing 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]

]]> 0 7adbc2587d2510b6c5e8452638d66440 Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP for MLA 2017: Temporality in the discussion Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/comics-and-graphic-narratives/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2017-temporality/ Wed, 17 Feb 2016 23:29:37 -0500 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, rendering time as space has been one of the most unique and commented upon formal aspect…[Read more]

]]> 0 1d77401ee5875fc48b72d9d8c936416d Lissette Lopez Szwydky started the topic CFP2017: Adaptation, Transmediation in the discussion Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/comics-and-graphic-narratives/forum/topic/cfp2017-adaptation-transmediation/ Sun, 14 Feb 2016 01:52:51 -0500 CFP: 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).

]]> 0 fe805d17c8c45434dcc4d5fc6f3e4e0b Cesar Braga-Pinto started the topic CFP 2017: Luso Brazilian Graphic Narratives in the discussion Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/comics-and-graphic-narratives/forum/topic/cfp-2017-luso-brazilian-graphic-narratives/ Wed, 10 Feb 2016 18:50:14 -0500 Luso 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 2016

Submission requirements:
250 word abstractsContact person information
Cesar…[Read more]

]]> 0 2879d9f70faa1c1f844e20286912a913 Martha B. Kuhlman started the topic CFP 2017 Graphic Narrative, Comics, and Temporality in the discussion Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/comics-and-graphic-narratives/forum/topic/cfp-2017-graphic-narrative-comics-and-temporality/ Mon, 08 Feb 2016 19:38:32 -0500 Comics 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]

]]> 0 436f2eaa1d11e79432c78832202a8221 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/539592/ Tue, 26 Jan 2016 19:45:14 -0500 Today, 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]

]]> 0 48545fccbd653bf4234e8f72ab9303a6 Philip Smith replied to the topic Discuss Philip Smith's CORE uploads in the discussion Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/comics-and-graphic-narratives/forum/topic/discuss-philip-smiths-core-uploads/#post-10174 Fri, 22 Jan 2016 14:44:12 -0500 Thanks 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

]]> 0 2a8e49a662090e7171cfa2f7a5e662ff Nicky Agate started the topic Discuss Philip Smith's CORE uploads in the discussion Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/comics-and-graphic-narratives/forum/topic/discuss-philip-smiths-core-uploads/ Fri, 22 Jan 2016 14:33:27 -0500 As 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

]]> 0 69d54fb8df8b5ccde1be95d97961c12a 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/539254/ Fri, 22 Jan 2016 07:49:21 -0500 Art 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]

]]> 0 1dca62a878295193c53a3d4baeb5dd1e Philip Smith deposited Spiegelman Studies Part 1 of 2: Maus in the group GS Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/539250/ Fri, 22 Jan 2016 07:45:07 -0500 Art 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]

]]> 0 7fdc13004f573c13714061611e71e8bd Philip Smith deposited Postmodern Chinoiserie in Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese in the group GS Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/539239/ Fri, 22 Jan 2016 07:29:01 -0500 This paper offers a synthesis and critique of the existing academic literature on Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese and an overview of Asian American alternative comics. It examines the range of literary and linguistic sources which Yang draws upon in his collage of Chinoiserie and Japonism. It presents the argument that existing criticism h…[Read more]

]]> 0 fdb52addb00a8fa7dd079319a66baa1f Philip Smith deposited 'We have experienced a tragedy which words cannot properly describe’: Representations of Trauma in Post-9⁄11 Superhero Comics in the group GS Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/539236/ Fri, 22 Jan 2016 07:25:02 -0500 This paper explores the manifestation of trauma in superhero comics following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11. These texts are considered from the perspectives of clinical psychology and Silverman’s concept of historical trauma. The paper first examines the genre as a whole, followed by an exploration of elements c…[Read more]

]]> 0 fdea6eaba35cb79fbfeef40a07566816 Philip Smith deposited Wiz Kids, nuclear bombs, and Marvel’s Hazmat in the group GS Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/539233/ Fri, 22 Jan 2016 07:18:47 -0500 In my paper ‘Postmodern Chinoiserie in Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese’ (2014, Literature Compass 11 (1): 1–14), I propose that existing scholarship on the portrayal of Asians and Asian Americans in American comics has largely focused upon racist newspaper cartoons from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and modern Asian-A…[Read more]

]]> 0 a4e977f3d2a5eb9731f70a8c355c2bc1 Nicky Agate started the topic Member News? in the discussion Comics and Graphic Narratives https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/comics-and-graphic-narratives/forum/topic/member-news-7/ Mon, 21 Sep 2015 20:15:16 -0400 Members of the Comics and Graphic Narratives Forum:

In October, the Commons Wire will return with a new section, Member Report. If you have recently published a book or an article, won a fellowship or award, accepted a new position, or received a promotion, please let us know by e-mail or private message (to @terrainvagues) by 25 Septemb…[Read more]

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