[Comicsstudiessociety] Disability in Comics seminar: readings, resources you'd recommend?

[Adrienne Resha]

I write about accessibility using Hawkeye #19 and cite Baynton’s “Disability and the Justification of Inequality in American History” in “The Blue Age of Comic Books,” <https://muse.jhu.edu/article/756729> which was published in the most recent issue of Inks. There’s also, again from Inks, “Accessible Articulations: Comics and Disability Rhetorics in Hawkeye #19” <https://muse.jhu.edu/article/710243> by Dale Jacobs and Jay Dolmage.



Adrienne Resha
PhD Candidate, American Studies
The College of William & Mary
CSS GSC <http://gradcaucus.comicssociety.org/> President
aresha at email.wm.edu

> On Jul 1, 2020, at 4:34 PM, Charles Hatfield via ComicsStudiesSociety <comicsstudiessociety at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
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> Dear CSS colleagues,
> 
> I'm reviving my "Disability in Comics" grad course this fall (see attached flyer), and looking for ways to diversify and update the syllabus. Recommendations, questions, and discussion are welcome!
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> This class, FYI, will be entirely online (a first for my grad courses), but I'm planning synchronous Zoom meetings most weeks, as well as student-driven discussion launches and weekly online posts around the major readings. I hope we can maintain the interactive, discussion-driven nature of an ideal grad seminar. Strategies for doing that would be greatly appreciated.
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> If you'd like to know more, or think you might have readings/resources to recommend, read on!
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> Here, in roughly the order of use, are the required comics readings my class did the last time I taught this course, Spring 2017 (readings marked * were provided to students in PDF via our private, password-protected Canvas site): 
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> Pekar & Warneford, American Splendour: Transatlantic Comics*
> Green, Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary
> Bechdel, Fun Home
> Davison, excerpts from The Spiral Cage*
> Waid, Rivera & Martin, Daredevil, Vol. 1
> Moore & Willingham, “In Blackest Night,” from Tales of the Green Lantern Corps Annual #3 (1987)*
> Drake, Haney & Premiani, “The Doom Patrol,” from My Greatest Adventure #80 (June 1963)*
> Kirby & Lee, X-Men #1 (Sept. 1963)*
> Mantlo & Elias, “Death-Walk,” from Human Fly #1 (Sept. 1977)*
> Bell, El Deafo
> Fraction & Aja, Hawkeye #19 (Sept. 2014)
> Lambert, Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller
> Daigle & Daigle, That Deaf Guy (thatdeafguy.com <http://thatdeafguy.com/>)
> Forney, Marbles
> David B., Epileptic
> Dunlap-Shohl, My Degeneration: A Journey through Parkinson’s
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> 
> And here are the critical readings we did (mostly provided via CSUN library ebooks, library reserves, and PDFs):
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> Adams, Reiss, & Serlin, eds., Keywords for Disability Studies    
> Alaniz, Death, Disability, and the Superhero (which of course inspired some of the above comics readings!)
> Couser, “Disability, Life Narrative, and Representation”
> El Refaie, “Life Writing from the Colorful Margins” and  “Picturing Embodied Selves”
> Witek, “Justin Green: Autobiography Meets the Comics”
> Baynton, “Disability and the Justification of Inequality in American History”
> Garland-Thomson, Chs. One and Two of Extraordinary Bodies
> Mitchell & Snyder, excerpt from Narrative Prosthesis, in Davis, ed., Disability Studies Reader
> Scotch, “American Disability Policy in the Twentieth Century”
> Chute, “Animating an Archive,” in Graphic Women
> Galvan, “Thinking through Thea,” in Foss, Gray, & Whalen, eds., Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives
> Couser, “Rhetoric and Self-Representation in Disability Memoir”
> McIlvenny, “The Disabled Male Body ‘Writes/Draws Back’”
> Williams, “Comics and the Iconography of Illness,” in Czerwiec, Williams, et al., Graphic Medicine Manifesto
> Quayson, excerpt from Aesthetic Nervousness, in Davis, ed., Disability Studies Reader
> Burch, “Reading between the Signs”
> Nielsen, “Helen Keller and the Politics of Civic Fitness”
> Dadey, “Breaking Quarantine,” ImageTexT, Vol. 7, No. 2, Fall 2013
> This time, I'm planning to add Køhlert's chapter on Al Davison from Serial Selves, and some selections from Uncanny Bodies, eds. Smith and Alaniz. We may also use the forthcoming Comics Studies: A Guidebook, since this class will consist mostly of students who haven't studied comics academically before.
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> But I'm particularly anxious to update and diversify the readings to deal more fully with questions of intersectionality. That is, I'd like comics and critical perspectives that will serve to underscore intersections of disability with race, class, and sexuality. Recent scholarship that gives new models of thinking about racialized disability would be esp. helpful.
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> Any readings or resources you would recommend?
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> 
> PS. If any of you would like to take this discussion off-list, into fine details, I can provide a full syllabus from the 2017 class, etc.
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> PPS. I've been having some trouble seeing replies to my CSS listserv messages, so please forgive any delays! Hopefully I won't miss any replies this time.
> 
> CH
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> Charles Hatfield
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> CSU Northridge, Los Angeles
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