[Comicsstudiessociety] [EXTERNAL] Re: Introduction

[Kate Polak]

Hi, all! It's so nice to get to know everyone! I'm Kate Polak, and I worh
on historical fiction, the representation of violence and genocide, and the
representation of women in comics. Most of my work is in cognitive
approaches, and I work with a hybridized lens that blends cognitive
psychology, feminist, post-colonial, and affect theories. My book, *Ethics
in the Gutter*, focuses on how comics writers and artists deploy empathy to
problematize our ethical relationships to the fictional representation of
real-world historical atrocities. Currently, I'm working on a broader
project analyzing contemporary Holocaust memorialization in a variety of
forms.

In addition, I also write comics--I have an ongoing series called
*Phonecalls with
My Mother*, that I have been working on for about seven years, but my
mother asked that I not publish any of them until she retired from
teaching. She just retired this year, so I'm trying to revise them into
better shape. In addition, I'm working on an autographic called *Top Heavy*,
that explores my and my friends' experiences of coming of age as girls in
the 1990s, focusing particularly on the social expectations and
sexualization of young girls/early womanhood.

I'm a Visiting Instructor at Florida Atlantic University, and I'm also
Assistant Director of the writing center. Nice to meet you all!
Kate

On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 1:44 PM Gail de Vos via ComicsStudiesSociety <
comicsstudiessociety at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> Good morning,
> I am an adjunct instructor at the School of Library and Information
> Studies at the University of Alberta in Canada. I have been teaching an
> online graduate level course on the validity of comics for almost two
> decades as well as conducting workshops in library and education
> conferences on numerous benefits and issues around the format in schools
> and libraries. My research and writing on comics tends to focus on the
> intersection of folklore and oral storytelling in comic books. For example,
> my latest writing for the monograph Monsters edited by Simon Bacon,
> analyzes the reworking of the folklore of Baba Yaga in the comic book world
> of Hellboy.
>
> Yours in Stories,
> Gail de Vos
> Storyteller, Author, Adjunct (Associate) Professor, SLIS University of
> Alberta
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>
> “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we
> need most in the world.”
> ― Philip Pullman
>
> “All the truth in the world is held in stories.”
> (*The Wise Man's Fear* by Patrick Rothfuss)
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 11:29 AM Charles Hatfield via ComicsStudiesSociety
> <comicsstudiessociety at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
>
>> So glad to see these introductions!
>>
>> I'm Charles Hatfield, a cofounder of CSS, and an English prof at CSU
>> Northridge since (gulp!) 2001. In 2005, I founded a comics course that has
>> become a popular elective at CSUN and is now taught by many of my
>> colleagues too. I am fascinated by many aspects of comics and comics
>> studies. I've been particularly interested in aesthetics and form,
>> children's comics (and depictions of childhood in comics), alternative
>> comics, graphic memoir, and Jack Kirby. I co-edit, with Rebecca Wanzo and
>> Jared Gardner, the Ohio State UP's series "Studies in Comics and Cartoons."
>>
>> This Thursday, Nov, 19, I'm co-hosting a Zoom teach-in on the *March *trilogy
>> that I'll hype in a separate post!
>>
>> Best to all,
>>
>> CH
>> Charles Hatfield
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-- 
Cheers,
Kate Polak
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