[Comicsstudiessociety] [EXTERNAL] Re: Introduction

[Laurike in 't Veld]

Hello all,

How lovely to hear from everyone!

I live and work in the Netherlands. I just started an altac job at a
university of technology, but I am still affiliated with the Center for
Historical Culture at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. I work on
depictions of war and genocide in comics and in my book *The Representation
of Genocide in Graphic Novels: Considering the Role of Kitsch*, I try to
tease out some of the tensions and issues around these representations
through the lens of kitsch. Recently I have been pursuing my interest in
depictions of perpetrator characters, tracing how comics on genocide engage
with perpetration and (gradations of) complicity.

I totally miss live conferences, but I am very happy to find out more about
everyone through this channel.

Take care,

Laurike in 't Veld
@drinthefield


On Mon, 16 Nov 2020 at 20:02, Kate Polak via ComicsStudiesSociety <
comicsstudiessociety at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> 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
>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://storytellerdevos.com/__;!!KGKeukY!ksYH0d1eDtLqfOfr0XVutJuHJmW8ZOd2krKQglLGFn9yflAStD95ed_LaGt9fOaf7WtBRMYzm6pT$ 
>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://storytellerdevos.com/__;!!KGKeukY!kkf68c8XwLH5BtFMhzYypVAMtiqqngug9fN1xO8FMskfSz7XiNCEMUy0qGkSbqjuoRdC2qnPyexT$>
>>
>> “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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