[Comicsstudiessociety] [EXTERNAL] Re: Introduction

Tue Nov 17 18:38:59 EST 2020

Hi everyone!
This introduction stream has been a welcome blast of community ths week.
Thank you :-)

I am Jeannie Ludlow. I'm prof of English & WGS at Eastern Illinois
University (about an hour south of Champaign). My primary research is in
counternarratives that challenge political discourses, so of course comics
are a wonderful resource for me. I focus on reproductive rights and justice
and abortion experiences. The fabulous Sam Langsdale included one of my
essays in her and Elizabeth Coody's recent collection: Monstrous Women in
Comics. Mostly, however, I find myself bringing comics/graphic texts to
more, umm, conventional feminist spaces. My current work is on
representations of the fetus in abortion stories.

It's great to see all these wonderful projects and resources--very excited
to read The Middle Spaces. I hope everyone is staying safe and healthy!
Jeannie

On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 1:23 PM Samira Nadkarni via ComicsStudiesSociety <
comicsstudiessociety at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> My name is Samira Nadkarni and I teach undergrad English Literature in
> Mumbai, India. While very interested in comic studies, it's not a field I
> know enough about, so it's been lovely to see what people have been or are
> currently working on. I've really enjoyed this set of online introductions
> and I'm now blessed with a whole new list of things I'd like to read now as
> a result (or cursed, since there are only so many hours in the day).
>
> Best Wishes,
> Samira
>
> On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 at 16:36, Carol Tilley via ComicsStudiesSociety <
> comicsstudiessociety at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi folks -
>>
>> It's lovely to see this outpouring of community-building on the list!
>>
>> I'm an associate professor in the School of Information Sciences at the
>> University of Illinois. I first started teaching pre-professional
>> librarians about comics in the late-1990s and studying the historical
>> intersections of comics, libraries, and younger readers in the early 2000s.
>> Although I still consider myself a scholar of print culture, my current
>> focus is reclaiming the stories of young people doing things with comics
>> (e.g. cartooning contests, social action, early fan networks, reading) in
>> the early and mid-20th century in the US. My work relies heavily on
>> archival and other primary sources, including interviews as possible.
>>
>> Most of my teaching and a lot of my professional engagement, aims to help
>> educate librarians about comics. For the past decade, I've taught an annual
>> course on reader's advisory for comics (it always fills to capacity) and
>> worked with students who are completing short-term practical placements at
>> the Library of Congress' Newspaper Division (which maintains a portion of
>> the LC's comics-related collections) and the Billy Ireland. This spring,
>> I'll be teaching my first ever undergraduate class - All in the Gutter:
>> Race, Gender, and Sexuality in US Comics - for the honors program here at
>> Illinois.
>>
>> I'm a former president of the Comics Studies Society and had the
>> privilege of hosting the first CSS conference here in Urbana-Champaign in
>> August 2018.
>>
>> Cheers!
>> -Carol
>>
>>
>> *Carol L. Tilley*
>> Associate Professor
>> School of Information Sciences
>> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>>
>> Chair | UIUC Faculty Advisory Committee
>> Affiliate Faculty, The Center for Writing Studies (CWS)
>> Affiliate Faculty, Gender and Women's Studies (GWS)
>>
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>>
>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 9:56 AM Brittany Tullis via ComicsStudiesSociety <
>> comicsstudiessociety at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I'm a Latin/x American comics scholar who focuses on representations of
>>> women and girls in said comics. I've also been exploring Latin/x American
>>> comics as a form of transamerican artivism for the past couple years. I
>>> live and teach in Iowa at a small liberal arts school and am currently the
>>> First VP of the Comics Studies Society. Always happy to answer any
>>> questions (as I'm sure are my colleagues) about what that work is like from
>>> anyone who might be interested in running for a position on our board some
>>> time in the future.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Brittany
>>>
>>> Brittany Tullis (she/her/hers)
>>> Associate Professor and Chair, Modern Languages and Cultures
>>> Director, Women and Gender Studies
>>> St. Ambrose University
>>> Academic Director, International Comic Arts Forum
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>>> First Vice President, Comics Studies Society
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>>> Fulbright Program Advisor/Scholar Liaison
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>>> Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Advisor
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 9:50 AM Candida Rifkind via ComicsStudiesSociety
>>> <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> *On Behalf Of *Michael Torregrossa, Saving
>>>> the Day: Accessing Comics in the Twentieth-first Century via
>>>> ComicsStudiesSociety
>>>> *Sent:* November 15, 2020 11:03 PM
>>>> *To:* comicsstudiessociety at lists.osu.edu
>>>> *Subject:* [Comicsstudiessociety] Introduction
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Notice: This is external email. Verify the sender and use caution with
>>>> any content.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The Medieval Comics Project
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The Arthur of the Comics Project
>>>>
>>>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://arthur-of-the-comics-project.blogspot.com/__;!!KGKeukY!lJEH68qEP0y7NuziZyOHaY1Q5k3GS5zs0bQgrTIauiEtOt5a7T9TFEfMAc909gbA0fQPf5Ph3PVa$ 
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“Any time we are doing the work of love, we are doing the work of ending
domination.” bell hooks
*******************************
Jeannie Ludlow, Ph.D.
jeannieludlow at gmail.com
pronouns: she/her/hers
President, EIU-UPI academic union
Professor of English
and Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Eastern Illinois University
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