[Comicsstudiessociety] CSS & GSC Board Elections

[Langsdale, Samantha]

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Dr. Samantha Langsdale

Senior Lecturer

Department of Philosophy & Religion

philosophy.unt.edu

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Greetings!

The Comics Studies Society wishes everyone good health in these challenging times. We are happy to report that OSU has opened access to INKS: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Finks.comicssociety.org%2F&data=02%7C01%7Csamantha.langsdale%40unt.edu%7Cd47aba7377ad4489acad08d7d3575ce5%7C70de199207c6480fa318a1afcba03983%7C0%7C1%7C637210244498300066&sdata=2O9hIHQXrsWOZT4GysK%2F8RZGxozIbO5aX3NBl0mTRxA%3D&reserved=0>, so please enjoy and share the word.

Also, CSS will soon be holding elections for various positions. Voting will be held from April 7th to April 25th, with the results announced on May 2nd. Please see below for information on the candidates.

Finally, we’ve heard your concerns about traveling in the near future, and we will be sure to communicate with you about any changes to our summer conference.

CSS Executive Board Candidate Bios

Second Vice President
Corey K. Creekmur is an Associate Professor of Film Studies, English, and Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa, where is also affiliated with the Center for the Book.  A founding member of the Comics Studies Society and on the Editorial Advisory Board of Inks, he is also the general editor of the Comics Culture book series for Rutgers University Press, which has to date published six volumes, two of which have been nominated for Eisner Awards.  In 2011, with Ana Merino and Rachel Williams, he hosted “Comics, Creativity, and Culture,” a major symposium and exhibition that brought together comics scholars, creators, and publishers.  He regularly teaches a wide range of courses on comics, and in comics studies, he has published essays on race and underground comix, American Flagg!, Love and Rockets, and the Indian graphic novel. (His work in film studies centers on representations of gender and sexuality in American cinema, and on popular Hindi cinema.)  He is currently preparing a book-length study of Love and Rockets, and another on the comic book as an American artifact.  He is especially impressed by the goal of the Comics Studies Society to welcome and support new and underrepresented voices into the field, and if elected to serve, would strive to maintain and build upon those efforts.

Secretary
Katherine Kelp-Stebbins is Assistant Professor and Associate Director of Comics Studies in the Department of English at the University of Oregon, having earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 2014 at UC Santa Barbara. As a trained comparatist, Kate examines comics and visual media as tools for rethinking world literature and remapping transnational mediascapes. Her manuscript considers the radical literacies of global comics with case studies such as the work of Mazen Kerbaj and Magdy El Shafee. Her chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Comics Studies considers the “Politics of Page Layout” through the comics of Leila Abdelrazaq and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, while her article in Feminist Media Histories—“Global Comics: Two Women’s Texts and A Critique of Cultural Imperialism”—uses theory from Rey Chow, Inderpal Grewal, and Gayatri Spivak to analyze the production, translation, and reception of books by Marjane Satrapi and Zeina Abirached. Her other publications in The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In, Comics Studies Here and Now, Media Fields, Studies in Comics, and additional anthologies similarly demonstrate her interest in anti-colonial, anti-racist, and feminist methodologies for researching and teaching comics and visual media. She teaches a wide range of graduate and undergraduate courses on comics studies, comics theory, and cultural theory and graphic narrative, and is curating and organizing a museum exhibition on comics journalism for the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. She serves on the Advisory Board for the Wilfred Laurier University Press series, Crossing Lines: Transcultural/Transnational Comics Studies. As the current MLA assembly delegate for the Comics and Graphic Narratives Forum, has advocated for comics as a tool for social justice in research and pedagogy. She is also a member of the ACLA, ASA, ASAP, and PCA/ACA. She has supported the aims of CSS as a reviewer for Inks and a presenter at the CSS 2019 conference in Toronto. As Executive Secretary of CSS, she would use her professional experience to promote the aims and values of CSS through programs and events based on diversity, equity, and inclusion (she is also a pretty fast typist).

Nicholas E. Miller is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Valdosta State University where he teaches American literature, comics studies, and gender and sexuality studies. His publications—which take multicultural and queer studies approaches to literature, comics, television, and other media—include articles in Feminist Media Histories, Inks, and Literature & Medicine. His publication in Inks was the journal’s most downloaded essay in 2018, and his essay in Feminist Media Histories received an honorable mention at the annual conference of the Comics Studies Society in 2019. He has contributed to The Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies and to edited volumes on mental illness in comics, posthuman blackness, and mixed-race superheroes. In addition, Miller is co-editing a volume under advance contract with the University Press of Mississippi titled Futures of Cartoons Past: The Cultural Politics of X-Men: The Animated Series. He has organized and presented on panels at the American Studies Association, the Comics and Popular Arts Conference, the Comics Studies Society, the International Comics Arts Forum, and the Modern Language Association. He is a founding member of the Comics Studies Society and a contributor to The Middle Spaces.

Elizabeth “Biz” Nijdam is Assistant Professor in German Studies in the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages at the University of Waterloo in Ontario. She graduated from the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 2017 with a concentration in art history. Her research focuses on the representation of history in comics and graphic novels, comics on global migration and refugee experience, and comics as a feminist methodology. In addition to founding the University of Michigan’s first comics studies working group, the Transnational Comics Studies Workshop, Biz was Secretary (2014-2019) and is now Treasurer for the Executive Committee of the International Comic Arts Forum and President of the Comics Studies Society's Graduate Student Caucus. Biz’s book project, Paneled Pasts: History, Media, and Memory in the German Graphic Novel (under contract with Ohio State University Press), examines how comics have become an important form for the representation of East German experience. Her recent publications include articles in The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, ImageText, World Literature Today and International Journal of Comic Art, and chapters in the edited volume Class, Please Open Your Comics (2015) and the forthcoming books Comics of the New Europe: Intersections and Reflections with University of Leuven Press and The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies, edited by Frederick Aldama. Biz is also currently co-editing a special issue of the German Studies journal Seminar on German comics and social justice.

Member at Large (2)
Shawn Gilmore is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and writes on comics, prose, film, and the like, teaching the same, as well as advanced composition. He completed a dissertation on how the graphic novel became a viable conceptual and publication format in 2013 and has written and presented on comics since the mid-2000s. He has been a member of the Comics Studies Society since it began and presented on franchise comics at CSS 2018 and war comics in 2019. In addition, he is the editor of The Vault of Culture<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vaultofculture.com%2F&data=02%7C01%7Csamantha.langsdale%40unt.edu%7Cd47aba7377ad4489acad08d7d3575ce5%7C70de199207c6480fa318a1afcba03983%7C0%7C1%7C637210244498310062&sdata=8J3rGpnYXIeMGJ2x1Kf639BVXtHKZkEPTMMYuS6533s%3D&reserved=0>, a public scholarship site that features work by a range of scholars and lay writers over a variety of cultural objects, from comics to film to novels to video games and everything in between.

Frederik Kohlert is Lecturer in Comics Studies and American Studies at the University of East Anglia, where he is also the program coordinator for the Master of Arts program in Comics Studies. He is the author of Serial Selves: Identity and Representation in Autobiographical Comics (Rutgers University Press, 2019), in addition to several articles about comics in such journals as Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society and the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. He is also the series editor of two companion book series for Routledge, entitled Focus on Gender, Sexuality, and Comics Studies and Research in Gender, Sexuality, and Comics Studies. His recent research focuses on political comics and cartoons, including a special issue of SubStance on the intersection of comics and anarchism. His current project examines the representation of racial whiteness on the comics page and the reception of comics outside their original national contexts. In addition to his work on comics, he is also the author of The Chicago Literary Experience: Writing the City, 1893–1953 and the editor of The Cambridge History of Chicago Literature, which is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.

Zack Kruse is the author of the forthcoming Mysterious Travelers: Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal Identity, which will release in February 2021 from University of Mississippi Press. His Comics Studies publications have appeared in INKS and Studies in Comics, with an upcoming article in Source: Notes on the History of Art and a book chapter on colonial violence in Warren Publications’ Creepy. Zack is also the Panel Coordinator for the Michigan State University Comics Forum and previously served as the managing editor for The Journal of Popular Culture. Outside of academia, Zack has produced his own comics, and his strip, Mystery Solved!, was serialized in the Center for Inquiry’s Skeptical Inquirer Magazine. In addition to his critical and creative contributions, he was the marketing director for Discount Comic Book Service, the largest comics retailer in the U.S., and he operated his own comic book convention, Appleseed Comic Con, in Fort Wayne, Indiana from 2009 to 2015. As scholar-teacher, he is committed to amplifying diverse voices, and in his role with the MSU Comics Forum he has endeavored to make Comics Studies at MSU a sphere where diverse voices are empowered and new ideas are generated.

A. David Lewis is the author of American Comics, Literary Theory, and Religion: The Superhero Afterlife as well as the co-editor of both Graven Images: Religion in Comic Books and Graphic Novels and Muslim Superheroes: Comics, Islam, and Representation. He previously served as the CSS Social Strategist, and he founded the nonprofit Comics for Youth Refugees Incorporated Collective (CYRIC). Working as full-time faculty at MCPHS University in Boston, MA, Lewis aims to increase discussions of and opportunities in Graphic Medicine as well as boost the visibility of under-represented communities, both in scholarship and on the page. He is the writer of the new adventures of Kismet, Man of Fate for A Wave Blue World.

John Petrus is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Grinnell College. His research has centered around questions of sexual and racial difference in US Latinx and Latin American audio-visual media. Right now, his research focuses on queer US Latinx life narratives in comics arts. In particular, he studies intimate artistic representations of Latinx experiences of the HIV/AIDS crisis, Latinx queer punk comic art, and Afro-Latinx representation in Puerto Rican nationalist comics. Currently he is working on (1) the comic art of Jaime Cortez and how it innovated HIV prevention tactics through compassionate Latinx self-representation, (2) Cristy C. Road’s queer punk Latinx aesthetic and how it offers a critical alternative archive of the 90s and early 2000s, and (3) how Edgardo Miranda-Rodríguez’ La Borinqueña breaks with past tropes of Puerto Rican nationalism, while questioning the limits of the hero(ine) narrative and the efforts to create an inclusive and diverse representation of Puerto Rican-ness.

Philip Smith earned his doctoral degree at Loughborough University. His work has been published in, among others, INKS, Image [&] Narrative, The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Studies in Comics, Extrapolation, The Journal of Popular Culture, Children’s Literature, Science Fiction Studies, Literature Compass, and The International Journal of Comics Art. He is co-editor of Gender and the Superhero Narrative and the forthcoming two-volume collection Drawing the Past: Comics and The Historical Imagination (both University Press of Mississippi). He is author of Reading Art Spiegelman and Shakespeare in Singapore (both Routledge), and co-author of Printing Terror: American Horror Comics of the Mid-Twentieth Century (Manchester University Press, forthcoming). He served as co-director of the Shakespeare Behind Bars program at The Correctional Facility at Fox Hill, Nassau, Bahamas. He is section editor for the ‘Contemporary: Other Voices, Other Data’ of the Wiley journal Literature Compass. He is Professor of English and Associate Chair of ESL, Art History, and Liberal Arts at Savannah College of Art and Design Hong Kong.

Katherine Tanski is the Editor of Comics Academe, an ongoing series published on the Eisner-nominated website Women Write About Comics (WWAC). Comics Academe is an interdisciplinary space for women and nonbinary individuals to publish short-form public scholarship not only about comics, but conferences, archives, libraries, and museum exhibits that also have relevance to comics studies scholars. In her role as editor, she frequently travels to comic conventions and interacts with fans, educators, librarians, comics creators, and publishers. Her passion for comic studies began while she was completing her master’s degree at Purdue and started using comics in her composition courses. Currently, Kate is a PhD candidate in Rhetoric and Composition at Purdue. Her dissertation focuses on the means through which professional organizations can promote interdisciplinarity.

Daniel Worden is Associate Professor in the School of Individualized Study and the Department of English at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he teaches comics history, literary studies, and modern/contemporary art. His work on comics has appeared in a variety of publications, including Modern Fiction Studies, nonsite.org, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, edited volumes such as The Comics of Chris Ware, The Comics of Joe Sacco, and An Ecotopian Lexicon, and his recent book Neoliberal Nonfictions: The Documentary Aesthetic from Joan Didion to Jay-Z. At RIT, Daniel has established an undergraduate minor in Comics Studies and worked to grow the institution’s archival holdings in comics and popular arts, most recently through its acquisition of the Joe Kubert archive. He has served on a CSS award committee for the past two years, and would be grateful for the opportunity to work on behalf of the Comics Studies Society and its members.

GSC Candidate Bios

Vice-President
Evan Ash is a first-year Ph.D. student in history at the University of Maryland. His research focuses on anti-comic book campaigns mounted chiefly in the 1940s and 1950s, but he is also interested in the role that this movement played understanding changing notions of American childhood. He also currently serves on the Accessibility Committee of the Comics Studies Society. A member of Maryland's action-oriented Fearless Student Employees graduate union, Evan plans to translate that experience, if elected, to a strong GSC leadership team committed to increasing the visibility of the GSC within the CSS, while also serving as a tireless advocate for its members.

Member at Large (2)
Joshua Roeder is a Ph.D. candidate in the History & Culture Program at Drew University. He studies American Popular Culture, specializing in Comics. As a Comics scholar, his work primarily focuses on the relationship between the creators and the readers, while exploring how the latter has influenced the development of the former’s work. As well as having been the Phi Alpha Theta at Wichita State University President, he also has a background in feminist, gender, race, social, book, and audience history.

Dr. Johnathan Flowers is an assistant professor of philosophy at Worcester State University. Flowers' research on comics primarily focuses on comics pedagogy, the cultural impact of comics, and issues of representation and identity in comics and comics media. Outside of comics, Flowers is also a specialist in the philosophical traditions of Japan, specifically Japanese aesthetics and kokugaku thought; philosophy of race, gender, and sexuality; and, the naturalistic pragmatism of John Dewey. His forthcoming book, Mono no Aware as a Poetics of Gender, uses Japanese aesthetics and American Pragmatism to present gender as a felt sense of bodies.

Secretary
Zachary J.A. Rondinelli is a second-year Ph.D. student in Educational Studies at Brock University in St. Catharines, ON Canada. His research within the field of comics studies focuses primarily on comics theory, particularly questions of communication and meaning making. As an Education researcher, Rondinelli's interests reside in multimodality and literacy studies. His current dissertation proposal intends to contribute to the work being done on comics and education by engaging in participatory action research and comics-specific visual methods to explore the nature of reading comics in the classroom and how the medium can sponsor multimodal literacy development for students. Rondinelli's first peer-reviewed journal article, “‘C’mon. Sell Me Another One’: Simulation, Sacrifice, and Symbolic Revolution in King & Gerads’ Mister Miracle”, was recently published in tba: Journal of Media, Art, and Visual Culture (2019). He has presented annually at the Michigan Statue Comics Forum (MSUCF) the past three years and was accepted to present at the now cancelled Canadian Society for the Study of Comics (CSSC) 2020 conference held during the Congress of Social Sciences & Humanities conference in June and the Comics Studies Society (CSS) 2020 conference this August at Henderson Statue University. Rondinelli's writing on comics has been featured on The Vault of Culture and POP!: Culture & Comics websites, as well as in Sequential: Canadian Independent Comic Book Magazine. He has also written comics reviews for The Comic Regime and PanelxPanel.


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