My essay, “Of Anthologies and Activism: Building an LGBTQ+ Comics Community,” has been published in the collection, The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader: Critical Openings, Future Directions (University Press of Mississippi, 2022). It received an honorable mention for the Comics Studies Society’s 2023 Article Prize. The collection won an Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work.
Resource: Queer Comics
Article: Around 1987: Don Melia and HIV/AIDS Comics
My essay, “Around 1987: Don Melia and HIV/AIDS Comics,” has been published in Comic Velocity: HIV & AIDS in Comics (2021), a catalog for a Visual AIDS exhibit curated by artist Paul Sammut.
Resource: Ten Reasons to Study Comics at UF & in Gainesville
The University of Florida is known for being the first institution in the US to offer comics studies as a course of study, and it continues to be one of the premier places to study comics. The late Dr. Donald Ault was responsible for developing UF as an important hub of comics studies, but many faculty and students have further built that tradition in the decades since. The following list gives you a sense of the many and varied opportunities for engaging comics that move beyond the department and the university.
Article: Servants to What Cause: Illustrating Queer Movement Culture through Grassroots Periodicals
My essay, “Servants to What Cause: Illustrating Queer Movement Culture through Grassroots Periodicals,” has been published in the collection, The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In (University Press of Mississippi, 2020). The University Press of Mississippi chose this chapter as the free excerpt to represent the book, so you can enjoy my chapter through the free PDF on the UPM website!
Podcast: Graphic Novel TK Episode 31: Comics Academia
It was an absolute pleasure to chat with Gina Gagliano and Alison Wilgus about comics and academia on their Graphic Novel TK podcast. They had great Qs that really got me thinking! Check out other episodes of their podcast; it encourages comics artists to think about different aspects of comic book publishing.
Article: Adjacent Genealogies, Alternate Geographies: The Outliers of Underground Comix & World War 3 Illustrated
My article, “Adjacent Genealogies, Alternate Geographies: The Outliers of Underground Comix & World War 3 Illustrated,” has been published in “The Counterpublics of Underground Comics” issue of iNKS (2019) that Leah Misemer and I co-edited.
Special Issue: “The Counterpublics of Underground Comics” in iNKS 3.1 (2019)
Leah Misemer and I co-edited issue 3.1 of iNKS: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society! Thanks to Jared Gardner, Qiana Whitted, and all of the iNKS folks for making this happen.
Article: From Julie Doucet to Gabrielle Bell: Feminist Genealogies of Comics Anthologies
My essay, “From Julie Doucet to Gabrielle Bell: Feminist Genealogies of Comics Anthologies,” has been published in the collection, The Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell: A Place Inside Yourself (University Press of Mississippi, 2019). The volume won the 2019 CSS Prize for best edited collection!
Article: ‘The Lesbian Norman Rockwell’: Alison Bechdel & Queer Grassroots Networks
My essay, “‘The Lesbian Norman Rockwell’: Alison Bechdel & Queer Grassroots Networks,” has been published in the “Queer about Comics” issue of American Literature 90.2 (2018). It was awarded the 2017 Crompton-Noll Essay Prize of the GLQ Caucus of the MLA, was named runner-up in the Norman Foerster Prize contest for best essay published annually in American Literature, and received an honorable mention from the Research Society for American Periodicals for their 2018-19 Article Prize. Additionally, the whole issue of the journal also won best special issue of the year from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.