[Comicsstudiessociety] Introduction

[Keith F]

Hi everyone,

It's been so nice reading everyone's introduction emails! Some of you I
know from conferences or Twitter, but I've really been able to learn a lot
of new things from this thread, and it's good to feel a sense of community.

As for myself, I teach communications at Olds College in Alberta. Olds is
one of the country's older agriculture colleges, so my students tend to
work in animal health, agriculture, equine sciences, horticulture, and a
range of business programs. My doctoral dissertation focused on British
Romanticism and 19th-century literature, but I gradually transitioned to
comics studies, mainly because I found the academic culture of Brit Lit to
be rather exclusionist and competitive. My current research focuses on two
areas: production culture in the comic industry and gender/sexuality in
superhero comics. My latest work is a chapter on counterpublics, queer
community, and sexuality in *Young Avengers* coming out in December as part
Anna Peppard's *Supersex* anthology from U of Texas Press. My current
research project (which is honestly in a bit of a holding pattern right
now) concerns the role of artist-run studios in combatting wage suppression
and organizing labour.

Also, I am the new president of the Canadian Society for the Study of
Comics, which just released our call for papers
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conference (hahaha, cross society promotions!). Hoping we'll get some new
faces this year with the online format!

Best,
Keith

*Keith Friedlander, PhD*

Instructor, Communications
Werklund School of Agriculture Technology
Olds College
4500 - 50 Street
Olds, AB  T4H 1R6

Tel: 403-556-7776 <(403)%20556-7776>
E-mail: kfriedlander at oldscollege.ca

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On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 5:53 AM Michael Torregrossa, Saving the Day:
Accessing Comics in the Twentieth-first Century via ComicsStudiesSociety <
comicsstudiessociety at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> 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
>
>
> --
> Michael A. Torregrossa
>
> Saving the Day: Accessing Comics in the Twenty-first Century
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://accessing-comics-in-the-21st-century.blogspot.com/__;!!KGKeukY!lrmtI4iwcBeDV7Df1HrK70Nk-Sq2tPCViwyNSVjJkYmLBoZ7WAnrTqPpD9syDLjp9hSCf40lHaNV$ 
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://accessing-comics-in-the-21st-century.blogspot.com/__;!!KGKeukY!hxoYiRnXzLnB6l84qDTHJxwr-e3o7NKKH1i12Go5lJ8Xyu_aQepoun5b1qn5OaQN2nezv18arcS3$>
>
> The Medieval Comics Project
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>
> The Arthur of the Comics Project
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