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

[Charles Hatfield]

Dear colleagues,

Thanks to everyone who has reached out to me re: Bechdel scholarship for my
upcoming graduate seminar. Several have emailed me privately with
recommendations -- greatly appreciated!

Unfortunately, I do not seem to be receiving CSS discussion list email
threads, apart from private replies. I think this is an ongoing problem? I
don't know why. So, if I have missed some discussion in response to my
query, I'm sorry about that. I'll try to gain access...

CH

On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 6:55 PM Charles Hatfield <charles.hatfield at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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