“I AM (not) FROM BEYOND!” – Situating Scholarship & the Writing “I”
Our 2018 Year-End Meta Post considers the role of the personal – both identificatory perception and the labor of writing itself – in scholarship.
The (re)Collection Agency #10: A Conversation with Margaret Galvan
In the 10th installment of our series of talks with comics scholars and teachers, we talk to Dr. Margaret Galvan about comics archives, keeping a spreadsheet of a comics collection, and the importance of research into grassroots periodicals in the study of queer comics.
Caged and Enraged: Bitch Planet Comics Studies Round Table (part one)
Part One in a scholarly round table examining Kelly Sue DeConnik and Valentine De Landro’s Bitch Planet.
Girl, You’ll Be an Invisible Woman Soon: Defining Serial Characters
Thinking through how readers conceptualize a character and the degree to which such a characterization can be independent of how the character acts in the actual stories she appears in.
“Let’s Rewrite Some History”: Captain Marvel & Feminist Revisionism
The first major story arc in DeConnick’s series is an attempt to write Ms./Captain Marvel into a revisionist feminist text – a laudable attempt to make manifest the purported feminist subtext of the character.
It’s a Wonder, Wonder Woman
More than 40 years later, Wonder Woman still has to deal with the same masculine hostility.
