[Comicsstudiessociety] [EXTERNAL] Re: Introduction

[Rik Spanjers]

Dear all,

I thought this might be a good time for me to contribute to the wonderful community building that has spontaneously burst into being here. I am Rik Spanjers and I work/live in the Netherlands, teaching on a temporary contract at Utrecht University. Right now, I have a co-edited book in peer-review called Key Terms in Comics Studies. My own work has focused on historical representation in comics (I am in the process of publishing a manuscript called Comics Realism and the Maus Event: Comics and the Dynamics of World War II Remembrance). Right now, I am looking to combine transmedia scholarship with memory studies by looking at the commemoration of operation Market Garden in Arnhem. 

Besides researching comics, I also review comics for various Dutch comics/manga magazines and have contributed to an exhibition on the globalization of Japanese popular culture. 

Best,

Rik Spanjers






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From: Kate Polak via ComicsStudiesSociety
Sent: Monday, 16 November 2020 20:02
To: Gail de Vos; discussion list for members of the Comics Studies Society
Subject: Re: [Comicsstudiessociety] [EXTERNAL] Re: Introduction

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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