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

[Patrick D. Holt]

Late to the party, but Georgia Webber's *Dumb* could be a good addition to
your list! Besides being a really compelling comics memoir, for your
purposes it has the benefit of including passages about how to visually
represent the invisible disability at hand, a long-term loss of the
author's voice. It's worth noting that the disability was a temporary one,
and that the author herself doesn't necessarily add to discussions of
demographic representation in the field, but the "How do I show this in my
comics?" bits are fascinating for narrative, personal, and formal reasons,
and they're definitely worth checking out.

Good luck!
Patrick Holt

On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 4:34 PM Charles Hatfield via ComicsStudiesSociety <
comicsstudiessociety at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> 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!
>
> 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.
>
> If you'd like to know more, or think you might have readings/resources to
> recommend, read on!
>
> 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):
>
>    - 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)
>    - Forney, *Marbles*
>    - David B., *Epileptic*
>    - Dunlap-Shohl, *My Degeneration: A Journey through Parkinson’s*
>
>
> And here are the critical readings we did (mostly provided via CSUN
> library ebooks, library reserves, and PDFs):
>
>    - 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.
>
> 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.
>
> *Any readings or resources you would recommend?*
>
> 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.
>
> 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
>
> Charles Hatfield
>
> CSU Northridge, Los Angeles
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