{"id":413,"date":"2019-12-19T14:52:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T19:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/?p=413"},"modified":"2019-12-19T16:21:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T21:21:20","slug":"comics-studies-happenings-fall-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/2019\/12\/19\/comics-studies-happenings-fall-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Comics Studies Happenings, Fall 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Fall has been a busy one for many of our Comics Studies Reading Group members, who have been reading, teaching, reviewing, and writing about comics and graphic novels, among other things. So I thought this would be a great time to share some of the interesting work they\u2019re doing or plan to do in the coming year.\u00a0 This group includes folks at UNT and TCU who have been meeting together or sharing ideas and events over the last year or so.\u00a0 They come from a range of disciplines and professional roles, so it\u2019s especially valuable to see how comics intersect with all of these different perspectives and approaches to reading, writing, and thinking about the issues they study. If you’re interested in joining the reading group email list, or have updates of your own to share, contact john.martin@unt.edu<\/a><\/p>\r\n

 <\/p>\r\n\"Cover<\/a>\r\n

Dave Aftandilian<\/a>, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of Human-Animal Relationships (HARE) minor at TCU, recently taught We<\/a>3<\/a><\/em> by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely in his TCU Anthropology class, \u201cAnimals, Religion, and Culture\u201d, to help introduce students to the concept of intersubjectivity<\/a>. Next semester he and a colleague will be using comics again in an Anthropology & Studio Art class on \u201cLittle Animals in Art, Culture & Museums\u201d to help introduce the concept of animal personhood. Last time they taught the course, they used issues of Mouse Guard<\/a><\/em> and Squarriors<\/a><\/em>, but may also add an issue from Age of Reptiles: Ancient Egyptians<\/a><\/em>.
\r\n
\r\n<\/p>\r\n

Wesley D. Cray<\/a> is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy<\/a> at TCU, where they helped found the TCU Comics Initiative and\u00a0where they also regularly teach Philosophy and Comics. Their article, \u201cSome Ideas About the Metaphysics of Stories<\/a>\u201d was recently published in the British Journal of Aesthetics<\/a> and their book, Philosophy of Comics: An Introduction <\/em>(co-authored with Sam Cowling<\/a>), is currently under contract with Bloomsbury Press<\/a>. Along with some other TCU faculty, they were recently interviewed for TCU Magazine<\/a> on the topic of comics in the classroom<\/a>. And they contributed to this recent Aesthetics for Birds<\/em> blog post for a discussion of their Top 5 Comics of the Decade<\/a>.\u00a0
\r\n
\r\n<\/p>\r\n

Sarah A. Evans, Assistant Professor of Youth Librarianship<\/a>, in the Department of Information Sciences, just finished her first semester at UNT. For fall, she taught INFO 5410: Comics and Graphic Novels, a survey course about the range of content available in this format and how to use them in formal and informal learning settings. Her paper “Popular Culture Texts and Fandom Practices as Sacred Texts and Religious Practices” was accepted for the 2020 National Conference of the Popular Culture Association \/ American Culture Association<\/a>, taking place this April in Philadelphia.
\r\n
\r\n<\/p>\r\n\"Government<\/a>\r\n

Bobby Griffith<\/a>, Government Information Reference Specialist at the UNT Eagle Commons Library, presented a poster entitled Give Your Outreach Superpowers with Government Comics!<\/a> at the 2019 Federal Depository Library Conference<\/a> in Arlington, VA last October. In 2020 he will be creating a subject guide on government comics and related materials. The Eagle Commons Library is looking into the possibility\u00a0of becoming a Preservation Steward<\/a> for government comics, preserving these unique resources for future generations in partnership with the U.S. Federal Depository Library Program<\/a>.\u00a0
\r\n
\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\"CoverSam Langsdale<\/a> is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy & Religion at UNT. Her article<\/a> \u201cMoon Girls and Mythical Beasts: Analyzing Race, Gender, and Monstrosity,\u201d was recently published in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society<\/em>. Sam is the co-editor of the forthcoming book Monstrous Women in Comics<\/em><\/a>, to be published by the University Press of Mississippi in May 2020. She is also finishing up edits for a chapter entitled \u201cOver the Rainbow Bridge: Female\/Queer Sexuality in Marvel\u2019s Thor Film Trilogy,\u201d for the edited volume Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy and the Superhero<\/em>, to be published by The University of Texas Press<\/a> in fall 2020. Finally, she was pleased to be invited last week to speak with the Comic Book Cinema class at St. Louis Community College at Wildwood about Captain Marvel, the Dark Phoenix, femininity and masculinity, superhero fashion, the failure that is the Golden Globes and more!\u00a0
\r\n
\r\n<\/p>\r\n

John Edward Martin<\/a>, a Scholarly Communication Librarian at the UNT Libraries, recently had a paper entitled, \u201cThe ScholCom(ics) Librarian: Comics and the Future of Scholarly Communication,\u201d accepted for the 2020 MSU Comics Forum<\/a> in East Lansing, MI. He is also working on the final revisions for a chapter on \u201cPoe, Women, and Comics\u201d for a book on Poe & Women that is under consideration by the Lehigh University Press Perspectives on Edgar Allan Poe Series<\/a>.\u00a0 He continues to organize the Comics Studies@UNT<\/a> reading group and blog, and is busy planning some exciting events for the Spring\u2014stay tuned!<\/p>\r\n

Matina Newsom<\/a> is the Stacks and Evening supervisor at the UNT Eagle Commons Library. She is currently working towards her MLS and an avid comic reader. In addition to working for the libraries, she recently began writing articles for Batman-News.<\/a> There, she writes reviews for various comics associated with Batman and DC. Check out her Author Page<\/a> for samples of her reviews.<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This Fall has been a busy one for many of our Comics Studies Reading Group members, who have been reading, teaching, reviewing, and writing about comics and graphic novels, among other things. So I thought this would be a great time to share some of the interesting work they\u2019re doing or plan to do in… Read more »<\/a>","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36,10],"tags":[37,48,11,46],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comics-reading-group","category-scholarship","tag-comics-reading-group","tag-government-comics","tag-scholarship","tag-teaching-comics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2019\/12\/monstrous-women-in-comics.jpg?fit=293%2C440&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9noXX-6F","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":298,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/2018\/08\/29\/comics-studies-reading-group\/","url_meta":{"origin":413,"position":0},"title":"Comics Studies Reading Group","author":"John","date":"August 29, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"On Friday, August 17, 2018, we had the first organizational meeting for our new Comics Studies Reading Group\u00a0at UNT. This is a group devoted to reading and discussing comics & graphic novels, as well as interesting scholarship, popular media, or films related to comics studies.\u00a0\u00a0 Nine people attended the meeting,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Comics in the library"","block_context":{"text":"Comics in the library","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/category\/libraries\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Cover of Barrier #1","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2018\/08\/barrier_ce_small.jpg?fit=370%2C224&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":381,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/2019\/11\/27\/comics-studies-reading-group-fall-2019\/","url_meta":{"origin":413,"position":1},"title":"Comics Studies Reading Group, Fall 2019","author":"John","date":"November 27, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"After an interval this summer and a couple of postponements due to scheduling conflicts, the Comics Studies Reading Group started back up in November with a discussion of\u00a0Diary of a Teenage Girl by Phoebe Gloeckner.Our conversation\u00a0was pretty wide-ranging, but touched on issues of teenage sexuality, sexual abuse, diaries & confessional\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Comics Reading Group"","block_context":{"text":"Comics Reading Group","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/category\/comics-reading-group\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Cover image of Diary of a Teenage Girl by Phoebe Gloeckner","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2019\/11\/diary-211x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":630,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/2021\/09\/02\/comics-studies-reading-group-fall-2021\/","url_meta":{"origin":413,"position":2},"title":"Comics Studies Reading Group-Fall 2021","author":"John","date":"September 2, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"For our first Comics Studies Reading Group meeting this Fall, we'll be reading Mariko Tamaki & Steve Pugh's multiple Eisner Award-winning graphic novel, Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass (2019). For fans of Harley,\u00a0Birds of Prey, or the recent\u00a0Suicide Squad films, this book offers a unique take on the coming-of-age story and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Comics Reading Group"","block_context":{"text":"Comics Reading Group","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/category\/comics-reading-group\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Cover of Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass by Mariko Tamaki & Steve Pugh. Show's Harley in skater-punk gear leaping in the air with a baseball bat.","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/09\/harley-e1777402948510.jpg?fit=1200%2C1086&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/09\/harley-e1777402948510.jpg?fit=1200%2C1086&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/09\/harley-e1777402948510.jpg?fit=1200%2C1086&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/09\/harley-e1777402948510.jpg?fit=1200%2C1086&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/09\/harley-e1777402948510.jpg?fit=1200%2C1086&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":827,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/2024\/08\/15\/whats-happening-with-comics-studies-at-unt\/","url_meta":{"origin":413,"position":3},"title":"What’s happening with Comics Studies at UNT?","author":"John","date":"August 15, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Welcome back, everyone, to the Fall 2024 semester and a new year of school, work, and Comics Studies at UNT! We've got lots of updates on our Comics Studies initiative and other comics-related events and activities happening at UNT. Over the last two years, our Comics Studies community has grown\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Comics Events"","block_context":{"text":"Comics Events","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/category\/comics-events\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2024\/08\/Comic-Studies-Blog_F17_Event-Banner.png?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2024\/08\/Comic-Studies-Blog_F17_Event-Banner.png?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2024\/08\/Comic-Studies-Blog_F17_Event-Banner.png?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2024\/08\/Comic-Studies-Blog_F17_Event-Banner.png?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":473,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/2020\/12\/08\/comics-studies-happenings-fall-2020\/","url_meta":{"origin":413,"position":4},"title":"Comics Studies Happenings Fall 2020","author":"John","date":"December 8, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Despite the world falling into chaos, a pandemic raging, social movements on the march, an election swirling, and all the hectic busy-ness of a most unusual semester, the Comics Studies community at UNT managed to squeeze in some welcome comics-related activities that kept us all somewhat grounded, connected, and nourished\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Comics Events"","block_context":{"text":"Comics Events","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/category\/comics-events\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2020\/12\/My_Brothers_Husband_v1_cover.jpg?fit=281%2C400&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":309,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/2019\/01\/23\/309\/","url_meta":{"origin":413,"position":5},"title":"Comics Studies Reading Group Spring 2019 Update","author":"John","date":"January 23, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"We recently completed the first semester of our UNT Comics Studies Reading Group, and held our first meeting of 2019. The group has readers from UNT and TCU, including faculty, staff, librarians, and students. We\u2019ve had a regular attendance of 4-6 people, plus occasional others who have contributed to the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Comics Reading Group"","block_context":{"text":"Comics Reading Group","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/category\/comics-reading-group\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Cover of Emily Carroll's Through the Woods","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2019\/01\/through-the-woods-3.jpg?fit=1200%2C516&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2019\/01\/through-the-woods-3.jpg?fit=1200%2C516&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2019\/01\/through-the-woods-3.jpg?fit=1200%2C516&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2019\/01\/through-the-woods-3.jpg?fit=1200%2C516&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2019\/01\/through-the-woods-3.jpg?fit=1200%2C516&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}