[Comicsstudiessociety] [EXTERNAL] Re: Introduction

[MINETT, MARK]

Hi everyone,

It’s so great to get to know all of you through this chain of emails!

I’m Mark Minett, and I’m an Assistant Professor, jointly appointed in Film & Media Studies and English, at the University of South Carolina. I earned my PhD in Communication Arts (specifically Film Studies with a graduate minor in Media and Cultural Studies) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My research focuses on developing close, contextualized accounts of approaches to storytelling within and across historical periods, industries, and media forms. I’m about to have a book published by Oxford University Press that focuses primarily on Robert Altman’s early 1970s films, while also reaching back to his time in television and sponsored films. I’ve also recently authored a chapter on Altman and Jules Feiffer's Popeye in relation to the Segar and Fleischer versions of the character.

As that last publication might suggest, while I’ve been finishing up my work on Altman (for now) I’ve also been moving towards comics studies in my research and teaching. I’ve co-authored a chapter on the narrative strategies of the “all-star team book” for the Make Ours Marvel anthology, and my current big research project aims at constructing a “historical poetics” of the superhero genre across media in the 1930s and 1940s, though it’s likely to tilt heavily towards storytelling (narrative and style) in superhero comics of the period. I’ve presented some of my comics-related research around that project at ICAF and at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference. At UofSC, I alternate with my colleague, the fantastic Qiana Whitted, in teaching an Introduction to Comics Studies course, and I’ve also developed a course titled Superheroes Across Media that attempts to trace the industrial and storytelling history of the genre and grapples with questions of formal design, genre, remediation, iteration, and adaptation.

I’m looking forward to immersing myself more and more in comics studies, learning from all of you, and seeing what I can add to the conversation!

Best,
Mark


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