[Comicsstudiessociety] [EXTERNAL] Re: Introduction

Tue Nov 17 19:26:45 EST 2020

Dear all,

What a lovely list of so many different experiences and expertises. Thanks
for getting this started, Michael and Candida!

My graduate training was in (and primary field remains) early modern
poetry, book history, and bibliography, and my other academic interest is
in cinema. In 2011, while a Leverhulme fellow at the University of
Liverpool, I gave lectures for (if I'm not mistaken) the English
department's first undergraduate module dedicated to comics. Since then, at
other universities, I've taught courses on metafiction in literature, film,
and comics, and currently use some comics in an honors humanities course
for all majors. My first foray into comics scholarship was at the 2018 CSS
conference, hosted by Carol Tilley, whose attendees were incredibly
welcoming to this outsider and which led to a roundtable at the 2019 Comics
Forum at MSU on "What Can Book History Tell Us About Comics?"

My academic interest in comics is currently focused on the various material
differences in "reprints" of comics, and their effects on interpretation,
scholarship, and pedagogy. I am also interested in how the methods of
analytical and descriptive bibliography, typically applied to rare books,
might be resourced for descriptions of comic books.

With regard to the interpretation of comics, I am particularly interested
in allegory, metafiction or metacomics, and the history of the DC
multiverse.

I'd love to hear off-list from anyone interested in any of the above topics.

Take care!
Jonathan

On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 5:12 PM Jeannie Ludlow via ComicsStudiesSociety <
comicsstudiessociety at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> 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)
>>>
>>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.caroltilley.net__;!!KGKeukY!moE83zqJ5nOjkYlF9q9OYfa5TsV3peDTm8an_EB2AIpdMRK62Y3Ai3DXxGKTI0pkxKJ4o534Aj-a$ 
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>>>  | CarolTilley
>>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://illinois.academia.edu/CarolTilley__;!!KGKeukY!jB4wr1kKS2c3G1cDYCb3rkkrBnX_4teOWJPPz92Ep7-NT5-r36OI95dXE7GWVN8wxx_ejhvhuLNY$>
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>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 9:56 AM Brittany Tullis via ComicsStudiesSociety
>>> <comicsstudiessociety at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I'm a Latin/x American comics scholar who focuses on representations of
>>>> women and girls in said comics. I've also been exploring Latin/x American
>>>> comics as a form of transamerican artivism for the past couple years. I
>>>> live and teach in Iowa at a small liberal arts school and am currently the
>>>> First VP of the Comics Studies Society. Always happy to answer any
>>>> questions (as I'm sure are my colleagues) about what that work is like from
>>>> anyone who might be interested in running for a position on our board some
>>>> time in the future.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Brittany
>>>>
>>>> Brittany Tullis (she/her/hers)
>>>> Associate Professor and Chair, Modern Languages and Cultures
>>>> Director, Women and Gender Studies
>>>> St. Ambrose University
>>>> Academic Director, International Comic Arts Forum
>>>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.internationalcomicartsforum.org__;!!KGKeukY!moE83zqJ5nOjkYlF9q9OYfa5TsV3peDTm8an_EB2AIpdMRK62Y3Ai3DXxGKTI0pkxKJ4owuZyryU$ 
>>>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.internationalcomicartsforum.org__;!!KGKeukY!lrh1fAI2R0Ka0saDNw0ttM_qiqVob9iXyTDWMwMH5XOxjdp5WyH--UhREJVabHAWfTXQ6mqECoth$>
>>>> First Vice President, Comics Studies Society
>>>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://comicssociety.org__;!!KGKeukY!moE83zqJ5nOjkYlF9q9OYfa5TsV3peDTm8an_EB2AIpdMRK62Y3Ai3DXxGKTI0pkxKJ4o_ZnBaVS$ 
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>>>> Fulbright Program Advisor/Scholar Liaison
>>>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://us.fulbrightonline.org__;!!KGKeukY!moE83zqJ5nOjkYlF9q9OYfa5TsV3peDTm8an_EB2AIpdMRK62Y3Ai3DXxGKTI0pkxKJ4o6McMl1I$ 
>>>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://us.fulbrightonline.org__;!!KGKeukY!lrh1fAI2R0Ka0saDNw0ttM_qiqVob9iXyTDWMwMH5XOxjdp5WyH--UhREJVabHAWfTXQ6jPfwQOc$>
>>>> Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Advisor
>>>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.iie.org/programs/gilman-scholarship-program__;!!KGKeukY!moE83zqJ5nOjkYlF9q9OYfa5TsV3peDTm8an_EB2AIpdMRK62Y3Ai3DXxGKTI0pkxKJ4o4vBlH-Y$ 
>>>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.iie.org/programs/gilman-scholarship-program__;!!KGKeukY!lrh1fAI2R0Ka0saDNw0ttM_qiqVob9iXyTDWMwMH5XOxjdp5WyH--UhREJVabHAWfTXQ6tDapg4T$>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://accessing-comics-in-the-21st-century.blogspot.com/__;!!KGKeukY!moE83zqJ5nOjkYlF9q9OYfa5TsV3peDTm8an_EB2AIpdMRK62Y3Ai3DXxGKTI0pkxKJ4o7wsAR4g$ 
>>>>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/accessing-comics-in-the-21st-century.blogspot.com/__;!!KGKeukY!hxoYiRnXzLnB6l84qDTHJxwr-e3o7NKKH1i12Go5lJ8Xyu_aQepoun5b1qn5OaQN2nezv18arcS3$>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The Medieval Comics Project
>>>>>
>>>>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://medieval-comics-project.blogspot.com/__;!!KGKeukY!moE83zqJ5nOjkYlF9q9OYfa5TsV3peDTm8an_EB2AIpdMRK62Y3Ai3DXxGKTI0pkxKJ4o86xkjaa$ 
>>>>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/medieval-comics-project.blogspot.com/__;!!KGKeukY!hxoYiRnXzLnB6l84qDTHJxwr-e3o7NKKH1i12Go5lJ8Xyu_aQepoun5b1qn5OaQN2nezv5tTrq7R$>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The Arthur of the Comics Project
>>>>>
>>>>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://arthur-of-the-comics-project.blogspot.com/__;!!KGKeukY!moE83zqJ5nOjkYlF9q9OYfa5TsV3peDTm8an_EB2AIpdMRK62Y3Ai3DXxGKTI0pkxKJ4o7cHwozF$ 
>>>>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/arthur-of-the-comics-project.blogspot.com/__;!!KGKeukY!hxoYiRnXzLnB6l84qDTHJxwr-e3o7NKKH1i12Go5lJ8Xyu_aQepoun5b1qn5OaQN2nezvzucnfq7$>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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