(Comic by Ken Nash at FAMU’s Comics and Film conference, interesting to see what he took away from the paper.) It was a busy conference season! 59th International Congress on Medieval Studies 10 May 2024, Western Michigan…
A new chapter just got published, officially out in July! “The Medievalist Simulacra of Kafka’s The Castle in Graphic Adaptations”, in Medievalisms in a Global Age. Edited by Angela Jane Weisl and Robert Squillace Boydell & Brewer, 2024. Here’s a short excerpt: Through their…
A new chapter just got published! “Medievalist Comic Book Characters and Their Feminist Readers”, in 21st Century Medievalisms: Between the Global and Individual, edited by Karl Christian Alvestad (2023). Here’s a short excerpt: In cosplay, by avoiding the “new” Red…
We had a great time at the Historiographics Conference held at the Amerikahaus in Munich this June! The main keynote speaker for the conference was none other than Hillary Chute who gave a talk titled “Comics at the End of…
UPDATE: The book proposal was accepted by Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels. Words cannot describe how excited I am to be working on this project. The initial manuscript should be finished by the end of 2023.…
The History in Comics conference hosted at Palacký University was a success! You can see the program and project information a HistoryinComics.org Looking forward to continuing to work on these topics in future conferences and projects.
A graphic article in Comics Grid – read it online here and there’s also a link to download the pdf. This article in comics form looks at the phenomenon of nun characters appearing in contemporary comics as a unified trope.…
First post on the new website! Is representation in comics a net positive no matter what? There have been several comics series which uplift female and gender diverse characters, even championing queer love and …all wrapped up in medievalist fantasy!…