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Review: Lessons from The Woman Fantastic in Contemporary American Media Culture 0
- Comics, Reviews
- August 15, 2017
With an interdisciplinary approach to the portrayal of the “woman fantastic” in contemporary American media, this collection examines her appearance across comics, books, and television.
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Superwomen, The Eisners, & Leia Organa’s PhD: A Conversation with Carolyn Cocca 0
- Comics, Interviews
- August 14, 2017
Editor’s Note: One of my goals for Comics Academe is to promote the work of women working as academics and scholars in the field of Comics Studies. I reached out to Carolyn Cocca about her Eisner Award-winning book Superwomen: Gender, Power, and Representation, and she generously agreed to an email interview even while in the
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Comics Academe: Levi-Strauss and Loki 2
- Comics, Essays
- May 31, 2017
Happy Summer, Sports Fans! My first leg of grad school is over! More importantly, final papers have been turned in, and a degree is in my hand! Fun Fact #1: One of my term papers was about reading American superhero comics as myth defined by Claude Levi-Strauss. Fun Fact #2: That’s our subject today. The
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“Real” Wonder Women? The United Nations, Feminism, and the Media 0
- Comics, Essays
- April 12, 2017
The rift between commercialism and feminism emerged in the debate over the appointment of Wonder Woman as Honorary Ambassador for the empowerment of women and girls. Last October, the UN announced that Wonder Woman would become the organization’s Honorary Ambassador for the empowerment of women and girls. The empowerment of femininity, both physical and otherwise, is
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Comics Academe: Christine Hoff Kraemer on Graven Images 0
- Comics, Interviews
- January 25, 2017
Rather than looking inward, I decided that for this Comics Academe, I’d like to talk to someone else in the field of comics. I keep saying that it’s important for scholars in “new” fields like comics to learn from each other and not lose collective knowledge, so I thought I would do as I say!
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Interview: Sequentials, a New “Comics” Journal 0
- Comics, Interviews
- December 22, 2016
As part of Comics Academe, one of the things I want to do is to promote what’s happening in academia and comics studies–especially when what’s happening is something that is innovative, or challenges what academic “scholarship” can be. When I first heard about Sequentials, a new comics “journal” being put out by the incredible English
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