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Comics Academe: CFPs on Bitch Planet, Allison Bechdel & Monstrous Women

July 15, 2016

A new feature for Comics Academe! This post will be updated as needed. Sometimes interesting Calls For Papers and Calls For Submissions come across my radar, and I need to share them with the incredible women I know who are in academia (or who are, like myself, academia-adjacent). CFPs are ...

Comics, Comics Academe, Essays

Comics Academe: Teaching Ms. Marvel Part 2

May 17, 2016

This is part two of my account of teaching G. Willow Wilson’s Ms. Marvel to honor students at a large southern university. Part one can be found here.

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The Unbearable Whiteness of Being (in Comics Academia)

April 19, 2016

June 2015. The run-up to my first conference abroad as an official comics scholar — and I don’t want to go. I’m panic-crying after reading a chain of emails which, on the face of it, have little to do with me. Short background: we were supposed to have a panel on Charlie ...

Comic Strips, Comics, Comics Academe

Book Review: Wide Awake in Slumberland

March 3, 2016

Wide Awake in Slumberland: Fantasy, Mass Culture, and Modernism in the Art of Winsor McCay Katherine Roeder University Press of Mississippi January 1, 2013 Given the current situation of newspaper comics, it’s sometimes hard to believe that a century ago they were big business, wildly popular, ...

Comics, Comics Academe, Essays

Comics Academe: Teaching Ms. Marvel – Part One

January 26, 2016

Last semester I taught the first volume of Ms. Marvel in my honor’s multicultural literature class. Ms. Marvel was perfect for my class, which centered on how minorities used fantastic fiction to show disfranchisement and how old tropes become new when filtered through a different perspective. ...

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Comics Academe: How To Write a Comics Dissertation

December 14, 2015

Out there, somewhere, is a woman who writes about comics who wants to turn that writing to a comics dissertation or thesis, or at least I sure hope there is! The field is wide open and ready for more. For the uninitiated, a dissertation or thesis is the long essay or project that serves as the ...

Announcements, Comics, Comics Academe

A (Re) Introduction to Comics Academe and Call for Submissions

December 14, 2015

A little over six months ago, I was approached by the fantastic WWAC editorial team about bringing back Comics Academe. Comics Academe was how I came to be a part of this amazing team of women writing about comics, and I am so appreciative for the opportunity to invite more women who are or ...

Comics, Comics Academe, Essays

The Apocalypse Isn’t The End of the World: Ragnarök and Reading Comics Narratives

October 7, 2014

After the initial media head-scratching about the announced title “Thor 3: Ragnarok,” people have latched on to the idea that the 2016 Thor movie will be about the end of the world. As a religion scholar, I have a hundred things to say about this! I’ll give you a few pointers for watching the ...

Comics, Comics Academe, Essays

Katherine Tanski’s Teaching Comics Part 2: The Amazing Spider-Man

September 30, 2014

This is part two of my retrospective/nostalgia journey through my time as a graduate student teaching comics in the “early days.” Part one, my love letter to Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics can be found here.

Comics, Comics Academe, Essays

Comics Academe: How Do You Teach Comics?

September 12, 2014

This post is the first of two Comics Academe pieces from guest writer Katherine Tanski — I’d introduce her fully, but she does a good job of that for herself. My name is Kate, and I’m a recovering academic. Like all good recovering academics, I feel the need to share my experiences ...

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Comics Academe: CFPs on Bitch Planet, Allison Bechdel & Monstrous Women

Comics Academe: Teaching Ms. Marvel Part 2

The Unbearable Whiteness of Being (in Comics Academia)

Book Review: Wide Awake in Slumberland

Comics Academe: Teaching Ms. Marvel – Part One

Comics Academe: How To Write a Comics Dissertation

A (Re) Introduction to Comics Academe and Call for Submissions

The Apocalypse Isn’t The End of the World: Ragnarök and Reading Comics Narratives

Katherine Tanski’s Teaching Comics Part 2: The Amazing Spider-Man

Comics Academe: How Do You Teach Comics?

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