[Comicsstudiessociety] Introduction

Mon Nov 16 15:59:29 EST 2020

Well, hello there, comics folks!

I’m Shawn Gilmore, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where I teach a variety of mid- and lower-level undergraduate courses on comics, fiction, and composition. I write on comics, prose, film, and the like and completed a dissertation on how the graphic novel became a viable conceptual and publication format in 2013 (available here<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/45661/Shawn_Gilmore.pdf__;!!KGKeukY!i5eM939iGzbpW_N_GBBrZje-JhrsIjNiLt68p73z3KGIH75j2LifP-D-FWRV7tYNMRG7NzGDbPJX$ >) and has written and presented on comics since the mid-2000s, including a variety of articles and reviews, with a review of Paul Williams’ Dreaming the Graphic Novel (2000) forthcoming in Inks.

In addition, I’m the editor of The Vault of Culture<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.vaultofculture.com/__;!!KGKeukY!i5eM939iGzbpW_N_GBBrZje-JhrsIjNiLt68p73z3KGIH75j2LifP-D-FWRV7tYNMRG7N29MkYLA$ >, 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. Though the site is not only devoted to comics, we do have feature articles on comics matters, an “On Comics<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.vaultofculture.com/oncomics__;!!KGKeukY!i5eM939iGzbpW_N_GBBrZje-JhrsIjNiLt68p73z3KGIH75j2LifP-D-FWRV7tYNMRG7N4UKUGqU$ >” series, and a fairly new project that we stealth launched earlier this year, “What were Graphic Novels?: An Inventory pre-1986<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.vaultofculture.com/graphicnovels__;!!KGKeukY!i5eM939iGzbpW_N_GBBrZje-JhrsIjNiLt68p73z3KGIH75j2LifP-D-FWRV7tYNMRG7N-EDwvk7$ >.” Some of our list members have been among VoC’s contributors:

  *   Zachary JA Rondinelli’s #WelcomeToSlumberland project<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://zrondinelli.wixsite.com/welcometoslumberland__;!!KGKeukY!i5eM939iGzbpW_N_GBBrZje-JhrsIjNiLt68p73z3KGIH75j2LifP-D-FWRV7tYNMRG7N_ptuF1O$ > recently had its Little Nemo “walking bed” roundtable archived here<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.vaultofculture.com/slumberland__;!!KGKeukY!i5eM939iGzbpW_N_GBBrZje-JhrsIjNiLt68p73z3KGIH75j2LifP-D-FWRV7tYNMRG7N7RLReAP$ >
  *   Anna Peppard’s fantastic piece on Nightcrawler and her love of undying superheroes can be found here<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.vaultofculture.com/vault/feature/peppard/undying__;!!KGKeukY!i5eM939iGzbpW_N_GBBrZje-JhrsIjNiLt68p73z3KGIH75j2LifP-D-FWRV7tYNMRG7N-aS7NVR$ >
  *   Evan Ash’s piece of the somewhat forgotten cartoon “Make Mine Freedom” (1948) can be found here<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.vaultofculture.com/vault/feature/ash/makeminefreedom__;!!KGKeukY!i5eM939iGzbpW_N_GBBrZje-JhrsIjNiLt68p73z3KGIH75j2LifP-D-FWRV7tYNMRG7N0um667a$ >

Feel free to take a look around the site and if you are interesting in contributing or pitching a piece or series, please email me at vaultofculture at gmail.com<mailto:vaultofculture at gmail.com> or submit via our “about” page<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.vaultofculture.com/about__;!!KGKeukY!i5eM939iGzbpW_N_GBBrZje-JhrsIjNiLt68p73z3KGIH75j2LifP-D-FWRV7tYNMRG7N-vLdhVV$ >.

All best
Shawn

From: ComicsStudiesSociety <comicsstudiessociety-bounces+sgilmore=illinois.edu at lists.osu.edu> On Behalf Of Frederik Byrn Køhlert via ComicsStudiesSociety
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Hi all,

I'm a Lecturer in the School of Art, Media, and American Studies at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, United Kingdom. I work on questions of representation in autobiographical comics and beyond, as well as on various issues to do with comics and politics. I also have a current project on migration in comics and am fortunate that nearly all of my teaching is comics-related. In fact, we recently launched a new MA in Comics Studies here at UEA, which has seen a very enthusiastic response so far.

Frederik

Dr. Frederik Byrn Køhlert
Lecturer in American Studies
School of Art, Media and American Studies
University of East Anglia
Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ
United Kingdom

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Serial Selves: Identity and Representation in Autobiographical Comics<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/serial-selves/9780813592251__;!!KGKeukY!ke5BQTqhZywcw4nspV4dVRRN2n7JKS2aNRlnH_xZ4VeQAQboYN5Lr0FhLsfIZWL4lUR2oqN_ByP6$> is available now from Rutgers University Press

Series Editor, Routledge Focus on Gender, Sexuality, and Comics<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.routledge.com/Routledge-Focus-on-Gender-Sexuality-and-Comics-Studies/book-series/FGSC__;!!KGKeukY!ke5BQTqhZywcw4nspV4dVRRN2n7JKS2aNRlnH_xZ4VeQAQboYN5Lr0FhLsfIZWL4lUR2oh6iy6cP$> & Routledge Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Comics<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.routledge.com/Routledge-Research-in-Gender-Sexuality-and-Comics-Studies/book-series/GSC__;!!KGKeukY!ke5BQTqhZywcw4nspV4dVRRN2n7JKS2aNRlnH_xZ4VeQAQboYN5Lr0FhLsfIZWL4lUR2osCUgwHj$>

New MA in Comics Studies<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www2.uea.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/taught-degree/detail/ma-comics-studies__;!!KGKeukY!ke5BQTqhZywcw4nspV4dVRRN2n7JKS2aNRlnH_xZ4VeQAQboYN5Lr0FhLsfIZWL4lUR2om3pZTbd$> at UEA
On 16 Nov 2020, 15:50 +0000, Candida Rifkind via ComicsStudiesSociety <comicsstudiessociety at lists.osu.edu<mailto:comicsstudiessociety at lists.osu.edu>>, wrote:

Hi Michael! We haven’t been doing introductions, but since the list is fairly new I really like this idea, especially since we won’t be meeting each other in person at conferences for the foreseeable.

I’m trained in Canadian literature and culture, and work mostly on autobio comics, Canadian comics, Indigenous comics, and refugee/migrant comics. I’m interested in print and digital comics, and I am keeping track of online Canadian Covid comics for a future project about how cartoonists here documented the first six months of the pandemic.

Any other list members want to introduce themselves? Would love to know who’s “here” and what connections we can make across our diverse field.

Candida

From: ComicsStudiesSociety <comicsstudiessociety-bounces+c.rifkind=uwinnipeg.ca at lists.osu.edu<mailto:comicsstudiessociety-bounces+c.rifkind=uwinnipeg.ca at lists.osu.edu>> On Behalf Of Michael Torregrossa, Saving the Day: Accessing Comics in the Twentieth-first Century via ComicsStudiesSociety
Sent: November 15, 2020 11:03 PM
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Hi,

I'm new to the list and didn't know if new members introduced themselves or not.

My academic training is as a medievalist, but I mostly work on the medieval in modern popular culture, especially comics. My main research interests are in representations of the Arthirian legend in comics, but I've also looked at depictions of Beowulf, Frankenstein, and (just recently) Dracula.

Thanks for your time,
Michael

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Michael A. Torregrossa

Saving the Day: Accessing Comics in the Twenty-first Century
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The Medieval Comics Project
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The Arthur of the Comics Project
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