...Chester Scoville Teaching the graphic novel in English and literature courses can be a challenge, because some of the most commonly used techniques for analyzing literature are not entirely compatible with the analysis of a multimodal form like comics. Additionally, the traditional classroom can...

...Anelise Farris This article examines the use of comic adaptations of Shakespeare in the college classroom. After theorizing the class offering based upon performance pedagogy and inclusive learning practices, the author describes her experience coteaching a Shakespeare class that used three...

... to many that comics and graphic novels had gained the recognition that would allow them entry into academia. While comics did not quickly become a staple in the college cata- log, scholarship on comics has flourished, and that has led to another water- shed moment — the debut of the Comics...

... different from those of the expository prose students learn to write in composition classes. Bergson, Henri. 1935 [1900]. Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic , trans. Cloudesley Brereton and Fred Rothwell. London: Macmillan. Bloom, Lynn Z. 1999 . “The Essay Canon.” College English...

... the ACRL's recommendation that faculty should design assignments encouraging students to “view themselves as information producers, individually and collaboratively” (27) in composition, literature, and interdisciplinary courses. Denoting an extended work in a comics format, the term graphic novel...

... of Onion News videos, teasing out the comic irony embedded in the mocking of popular discourses. These forms of postmodern irony play a role in many students’ popular education, and we should not ignore that context for own teaching. As rhetoricians, we should be pleased that some of our students...

... for teaching controversial topics and systemic thinking. Gina Brandolino is a lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. She teaches and writes about medieval and early English literature, working class literature, comics, and horror. Moira...

... . Ware Chris . 2012 . Building Stories . New York : Pantheon . Wolk Douglas . 2007 . Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean . Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press . Yancey Kathleen Blake . 2004 . “Made Not Only in Words: Composition in a New Key.” College...

... National Monument,” UNESCO World Heritage Convention, http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/364 . 5. There is some debate if the Rozvi were inheritors or a separate entity. 4. Beyond the Black Panther: Visions of Afrofuturism in American Comics (exhibition), Michigan State University Museum...

..., or Pugh    Vectoring Genre and Character  355 freewrites recording their reasoning process. If they see Criseyde as primarily a comic character in book 3 but as more of a tragic character in book 4, they should be able to point to the line numbers that support these interpretations, and they should...

... the more familiar communities include groups as diverse as packs of video game and comic book aficionados, and communities of the workplace and the leisure world — ­communities in which “vernacular literacies” are learned and used. In order to clear the ground and to allow the field to view...

... and the Making of American Modernism (forthcom- ing) and coeditor, with Martha B. Kuhlman, of The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking (2010). His essays and reviews have appeared in Modern Fiction Studies, College Literature, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Artforum. He is currently...

... of looking: at the work of art, at knives and gondolas, and at the very act of looking itself. Another artist, Roy Lichtenstein, used changes in scale to paint giant renderings of comic books, thus creating a canvas that is, as Lanham explains, also rendered maximally self-conscious (43), causing viewers...

... Vaughn Sarah . 2016 . Alex + Ada: The Complete Collection . Berkeley, CA : Image Comics . Wosk Julie . 2015 . My Fair Ladies: Female Robots, Androids, and Other Artificial Eves . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press . android social justice introductory literature...

... 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 disability composition rhetoric superpowers first-year seminar superheroes comics writing instruction film Works Cited Bérubé Michael . 2005 . “Disability and Narrative.” PMLA 120 . 2 : 568 – 76 . Harris-Moore Deborah...

... content, it rarely lasted; rather, the intentional pairing of that content with other texts dealing with the same issues—novels, comics/serial art, film, and television—only deepened their engagement across both styles of text. If Rucka's Hiketeia could so shake the foundations of what I thought...

... and ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies . Anne Shea is associate professor and chair of the Writing and Literature Program at California College of the Arts. Her fields of teaching and research include twentieth- and twenty-first-century North American literature and composition. She has published...

..., and edited collections. Jennifer H. Williams is assistant professor of English at Calvin College in Michigan. She teaches courses on British modernism, critical theory, and comics and the graphic novel. She is currently working on a project that examines women writers, identity, and consumer...

... in English studies at Illinois State University. She works at the intersections of life writing, children's literature, and memory studies and is especially interested in comics and verse memoirs of childhood. She lives in Normal, IL. Kathryn Van Zanen is a PhD student in the Joint Program in English...

... and Rhizomes.net. Terrence Tucker is a PhD candidate at the University of Kentucky. He is writing a dissertation titled Comic Rage in Late Twentieth Century African- American Literature, and his research interests include pedagogy, twenti- eth-century American and African American literature, and black popular...