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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">Dear colleagues, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">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! <br><br>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...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">CH</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 6:55 PM Charles Hatfield <<a href="mailto:charles.hatfield@gmail.com">charles.hatfield@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><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">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>Fun Home</i> as an example of a 21st-century literary text that has inspired a lot of scholarship. After concentrating on <i>Fun Home</i> itself for a week, we'll move into academic journal articles and/or book chapters about <i>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">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"> approaches to one text under the umbrella of contemporary academic literary criticism.<br></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br>I've previously used Chute's "</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:-0.32px">Animating an Archive" (her chapter on Bechdel from <i>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>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><br>CH</span></div></div></div>
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