[Comicsstudiessociety] Query: Bechdel (Fun Home) scholarship for opening a grad seminar

[Charles Hatfield]

Jeremy, thank you! I'm going to check that out! (I have that issue of *American
Literature*, but I haven't finished reading it yet, and alas my copy has
gone walking...)

In fact, I've just downloaded it. Cool!

:)

CH

On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 7:04 PM Jeremy Carnes <Jeremy.Carnes at ucf.edu> wrote:

> Hi Charles:
>
> I really love Kate McCullough's essay "'The Complexity of Loss Itself':
> The Comics Form and *Fun Home*'s Queer Reparative Temporality" from *American
> Literature* 90.2 (2018). It centers around queer studies and temporality
> studies through the vein of formalism. It's really brilliant.
>
> Jeremy
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> for opening a grad seminar
>
> This fall I'm teaching an Introduction to Graduate Studies in English, and
> for the first two to three weeks we'll be focusing on Bechdel's Fun Home as
> an example of a 21st-century literary text that has inspired a lot of
> scholarship.
> This fall I'm teaching an Introduction to Graduate Studies in English, and
> for the first two to three weeks we'll be focusing on Bechdel's *Fun Home* as
> an example of a 21st-century literary text that has inspired a lot of
> scholarship. After concentrating on *Fun Home* itself for a week, we'll
> move into academic journal articles and/or book chapters about *Fun Home*,
> with a couple chosen by me and one or two chosen (and abstracted/presented)
> by students individually. The idea is not to turn this course into a
> comics studies seminar (heh), but to model a variety of approaches to one
> text under the umbrella of contemporary academic literary criticism.
>
> I've previously used Chute's "Animating an Archive" (her chapter on
> Bechdel from *Graphic Women*) in grad courses, and may use it again here
> (it's amazing), but would like to supplement it with other pieces to convey
> a greater disciplinary and methodological range. Besides pieces contained
> in Utell's edited collection *The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the
> Outside In* (2019), are there other academic "Bechdel studies" texts you
> would recommend as part of the opening of a grad studies gateway course? If
> so, what methodologies or theories do those texts represent, do you think?
>
> CH
>
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