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.
Article: Making Space: Jennifer Camper, LGBTQ Anthologies, and Queer Comics Communities
My essay, “Making Space: Jennifer Camper, LGBTQ Anthologies, and Queer Comics Communities,” has been published in the “Lesbians and Comics” special issue of Journal of Lesbian Studies 22.4 (2018).
Article: Archiving Wimmen: Collectives, Networks, & Comix
My essay, “Archiving Wimmen: Collectives, Networks, & Comix,” has been published in Australian Feminist Studies 32.91-92 (2017). This special double issue focuses on “Archives and New Modes of Feminist Research.” This article received the Florence Howe Award for feminist scholarship in the field of English by the Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages (http://www.wcml.org/). The article is permanently available open-access.
Article: Thinking through Thea: Alison Bechdel’s Representations of Disability
My essay, “Thinking through Thea: Alison Bechdel’s Representations of Disability,” has been published in the collection, Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
Article: Archiving Grassroots Comics: The Radicality of Networks & Lesbian Community
My essay, “Archiving Grassroots Comics: The Radicality of Networks and Lesbian Community,” has been published in “Radical Archives” issue of Archive Journal (2015).
Article: Feminism Underground: The Comics Rhetoric of Lee Marrs and Roberta Gregory
My essay, “Feminism Underground: The Comics Rhetoric of Lee Marrs and Roberta Gregory,” has been published in “The 1970s” issue of WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly (2015).
Video: Comics, Underground & Above: The Story of Kitchen Sink Press (Columbia University)
On Monday, April 13, 2015, I presented at the event, Comics, Underground & Above: The Story of Kitchen Sink Press, held at Columbia University. The panel of speakers included James Danky, Denis Kitchen, Howard Cruse, David Hajdu, and myself.
Video: Lesbian Archives Roundtable at the Radical Archives Conference (New York University)
On Saturday, April 12, 2014, I presented on the Lesbian Archives Roundtable alongside Ellen Gruber Garvey, Lisa Merrill, Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz, Rachel Corbman, and Flavia Rando at the Radical Archives Conference. This two-day conference was hosted by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University.
Pedagogy: Comics Resources for Research
This post originated in the first iteration of “The Rise of Graphic Archives” First-Year Research Seminar that I taught at NYU Gallatin in Spring 2014.