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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">If you consider something outside the usual queer perspectives, try Aaron Kashtan's article from a media/materiality studies POV:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kashtan, Aaron. "My mother was a typewriter: <i class="">Fun Home</i> and the importance of materiality in comics studies." <i class="">Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics</i> 4.1 (2013): 92–116.<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Am 23.06.2022 um 03:55 schrieb Charles Hatfield via ComicsStudiesSociety <<a href="mailto:comicsstudiessociety@lists.osu.edu" class="">comicsstudiessociety@lists.osu.edu</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Avenir-Book; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="">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 <i class="">Fun Home</i> as an example of a 21st-century literary text that has inspired a lot of scholarship. After concentrating on <i class="">Fun Home</i> itself for a week, we'll move into academic journal articles and/or book chapters about <i class="">Fun Home</i>, with a couple chosen by me and one or two chosen (and abstracted/presented) by students individually. </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="">The idea is not to turn this course into a comics studies seminar (heh), but to model a variety of</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class=""> approaches to one text under the umbrella of contemporary academic literary criticism.<br class=""></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class=""><br class="">I've previously used Chute's "</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.32px;" class="">Animating an Archive" (her chapter on Bechdel from <i class="">Graphic Women</i>) 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 <i class="">The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In</i> (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?<br class=""><br class="">CH</span></div></div></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Avenir-Book; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Avenir-Book; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Avenir-Book; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">ComicsStudiesSociety mailing list</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Avenir-Book; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><a href="mailto:ComicsStudiesSociety@lists.osu.edu" style="font-family: Avenir-Book; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">ComicsStudiesSociety@lists.osu.edu</a><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Avenir-Book; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><a href="https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/comicsstudiessociety" style="font-family: Avenir-Book; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/comicsstudiessociety</a></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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