[Comicsstudiessociety] (another) introduction

Mon Nov 16 14:51:25 EST 2020

I love these introductions. And hello everyone, it’s so nice to (virtually) meet everyone!

Like many people have indicated, I am also new to comics studies. I am a recovering medievalist 😊, but have always kept one foot in the door of popular culture studies. I got my PhD in 2004 from the University of Alabama and am currently Professor of English and Graduate Studies Coordinator at Kent State University. I have always taught graphic novels and comics in some way in my courses, and (maybe because the pandemic made me re-think where I want my research to go) I have been writing about comics exclusively of late. My theoretical framework is queer theory and gender studies, so my work tends to go in that direction. In the Spring, I am offering a graduate seminar on Comics Studies/Queer Theory, and its proven very popular—students from outside of the department have been seeking to get in! I’m very excited.

Cheers,
Chris

Dr. Christopher Michael Roman
Professor of English
Graduate Studies Coordinator
Series Co-editor: New Queer Medievalisms
Kent State University
Office 113-B
Satterfield Hall
475 Janik Dr.
Kent, OH 44242
Office Phone: 330-672-1757
Department Phone: 330-672-2676
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Date: Monday, November 16, 2020 at 2:10 PM
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Subject: Re: [Comicsstudiessociety] (another) introduction

Since we’re doing introductions:

I am Osvaldo Oyola. I got my PhD in 2014 and then after five years as a lecturer in NYU’s Expository Writing Program (but also teaching an occasional Latinx-American Lit class) I dropped out of the academic job market and moved on. Currently under/unemployed and sans affiliation, but I am still involved in comics scholarship, both through my role in the ICAF executive committee and running The Middle Spaces<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https*3A*2F*2Furldefense.com*2Fv3*2F__https*3A*2F*2Fthemiddlespaces.com*2F__*3B!!KGKeukY!hTwTAse3uUTWJFbqjQsIpim7ImbBtFej8fHGw1DuVleyOAzJT95VvQvikA8PeIxh5-UoOQgobH7B*24&data=04*7C01*7Ccroman2*40kent.edu*7Cf704348aaf8e4edd3ffd08d88a634d6a*7Ce5a06f4a1ec44d018f73e7dd15f26134*7C1*7C0*7C637411506390007292*7CUnknown*7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0*3D*7C1000&sdata=QMPr0SNtdL*2FYFhKWBFVInMGDmOmceE*2FcE3T7NDEF9ks*3D&reserved=0__;JSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSU!!KGKeukY!mUdWQ4B7xaKYSUMCEzvYFXVih9ZuBrA3i7F2SqaYrlBbL8-tdjiDQSYFEM325hgT9D17PsA8-jHL$ > – a paying(!) blog for public facing scholarship on (mostly) comics (but also other aspects of pop culture, esp. pop music), work on which won me the Gilbert Seldes Prize from CSS in 2019.

While my field of study was Contemporary Transnational American Lit and identity which included comics (I come from literary studies, but have a strong cultural studies interest), most of my work for the last few years has been pretty much comics focused alone – in particular on representations of race and resistant reading in fan culture.

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- OO

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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<mailto: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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