[Comicsstudiessociety] [EXTERNAL] Re: Introduction

Tue Nov 17 23:49:50 EST 2020

Lovely to read all these introductions! I'm enjoying learning about people
I didn't know yet as well as hearing what friends have been up to lately.

I am a Senior Lecturer at Massey University in Aotearoa New Zealand, but
only for another three months or so. Then my contract ends and I will move
to the Netherlands with my family. So I will be on the lookout for work
once more. I have taught at Ryerson and Concordia Universities in Canada
previously. My teaching here is in 20th-century and contemporary literature
and genre, and I long for the chance to teach comics again--currently I
only smuggle one or two into each course I teach.

I wrote *Narrative Structure in Comics*, which was based on my dissertation
and is a quite general approach to comics using narrative theory and
semiotics. More recently I have been concentrating on wordless comics, on
which I've published several articles and chapters, and I greatly enjoyed
contributing to The Middle Spaces roundtable on sound in comics
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://themiddlespaces.com/2019/04/09/seeing-sounds-part-one/__;!!KGKeukY!gNmagOohN972OBNLwmnxMbQ-c3kAauRdwBgLBLGE4FVLLvpCl2pZFrTZ9PU9Y9kjkXuQf8YivEAQ$ > last year.
I have contributed several entries to the *Key Terms in Comics Studies *that
Rik Spanjers mentioned earlier. Besides my interest in narration, coming
from a literary studies background (I studied English Lit for my BA and
MA), I am also interested in form, which has led me to abstract and
experimental comics, and increasingly I am looking at materiality and
production.

I look forward to meeting more of you virtually on this list and various
online fora, and eventually hopefully some of you in person as well.
Hang in there!
Barbara

Dr Barbara Postema

School of Humanities, Media and Creative Communication

(formerly School of English and Media Studies* and* School of Humanities)

Massey University Manawatū

Private Bag 11 222

Palmerston North 4442

New Zealand

On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 1:12 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)
>>>
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>>>  | CarolTilley
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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!gNmagOohN972OBNLwmnxMbQ-c3kAauRdwBgLBLGE4FVLLvpCl2pZFrTZ9PU9Y9kjkXuQf4mvgC8Q$ 
>>>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.internationalcomicartsforum.org__;!!KGKeukY!lrh1fAI2R0Ka0saDNw0ttM_qiqVob9iXyTDWMwMH5XOxjdp5WyH--UhREJVabHAWfTXQ6mqECoth$>
>>>> First Vice President, Comics Studies Society
>>>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://comicssociety.org__;!!KGKeukY!gNmagOohN972OBNLwmnxMbQ-c3kAauRdwBgLBLGE4FVLLvpCl2pZFrTZ9PU9Y9kjkXuQf6De8vk3$ 
>>>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://comicssociety.org__;!!KGKeukY!lrh1fAI2R0Ka0saDNw0ttM_qiqVob9iXyTDWMwMH5XOxjdp5WyH--UhREJVabHAWfTXQ6h5MLxNa$>
>>>> Fulbright Program Advisor/Scholar Liaison
>>>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://us.fulbrightonline.org__;!!KGKeukY!gNmagOohN972OBNLwmnxMbQ-c3kAauRdwBgLBLGE4FVLLvpCl2pZFrTZ9PU9Y9kjkXuQfyTCh4T3$ 
>>>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://us.fulbrightonline.org__;!!KGKeukY!lrh1fAI2R0Ka0saDNw0ttM_qiqVob9iXyTDWMwMH5XOxjdp5WyH--UhREJVabHAWfTXQ6jPfwQOc$>
>>>> Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Advisor
>>>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.iie.org/programs/gilman-scholarship-program__;!!KGKeukY!gNmagOohN972OBNLwmnxMbQ-c3kAauRdwBgLBLGE4FVLLvpCl2pZFrTZ9PU9Y9kjkXuQf20kPbtr$ 
>>>> <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!gNmagOohN972OBNLwmnxMbQ-c3kAauRdwBgLBLGE4FVLLvpCl2pZFrTZ9PU9Y9kjkXuQfztpVOsy$ 
>>>>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/accessing-comics-in-the-21st-century.blogspot.com/__;!!KGKeukY!hxoYiRnXzLnB6l84qDTHJxwr-e3o7NKKH1i12Go5lJ8Xyu_aQepoun5b1qn5OaQN2nezv18arcS3$>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The Medieval Comics Project
>>>>>
>>>>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://medieval-comics-project.blogspot.com/__;!!KGKeukY!gNmagOohN972OBNLwmnxMbQ-c3kAauRdwBgLBLGE4FVLLvpCl2pZFrTZ9PU9Y9kjkXuQf0Onb87L$ 
>>>>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/medieval-comics-project.blogspot.com/__;!!KGKeukY!hxoYiRnXzLnB6l84qDTHJxwr-e3o7NKKH1i12Go5lJ8Xyu_aQepoun5b1qn5OaQN2nezv5tTrq7R$>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The Arthur of the Comics Project
>>>>>
>>>>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://arthur-of-the-comics-project.blogspot.com/__;!!KGKeukY!gNmagOohN972OBNLwmnxMbQ-c3kAauRdwBgLBLGE4FVLLvpCl2pZFrTZ9PU9Y9kjkXuQf0lp4y-c$ 
>>>>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/arthur-of-the-comics-project.blogspot.com/__;!!KGKeukY!hxoYiRnXzLnB6l84qDTHJxwr-e3o7NKKH1i12Go5lJ8Xyu_aQepoun5b1qn5OaQN2nezvzucnfq7$>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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