On June 17, 2024, I spoke on a roundtable panel alongside Dan Royles, Dean Allbritton, and Juana María Rodríguez as we discussed different strategies of teaching with Wikipedia and working with our students to preserve LGBTQ+ History on Wikipedia. Andrés Vera, Equity Outreach Coordinator of Wiki Education, asked us some great questions and moderated the conversation.
On June 6, 2024, I spoke alongside Qiana J. Whitted and Carol L. Tilley about the legacy of Fredric Wertham’s infamous book, Seduction of the Innocent (1954) that was part of a midcentury push against comics, and how it speaks to comics censorship today (spoiler: it’s complicated!). The discussion was hosted by the Library of Congress, which holds Wertham’s papers.
Here’s a roundup of media about my first book In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s (2023). It includes recorded book talks and podcasts that I’ve done as well as reviews that folks have written. A full list of all talks and events including those that were not recorded can be found on my CV. I’m happy to talk at your institution, with your community group, and with your scholarly society.
On September 9, 2022, I had the great pleasure of giving an invited talk, “Making Lesbians Visible: Recovering the Social History of the 1990s Lesbian Comics Boom,” to a packed room of art students at Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, FL. The talk is part of my second book project, Comics in Movement, that examines how transnational communities of LGBTQ cartoonists innovated comics through various grassroots formats in the 1980s-1990s. Inspired by the talk, I put together a resource guide to queer comics.
You can access the video of the talk here.
On August 28, 2021, cartoonist Justin Hall and I chatted about why we need to recover queer comics history & how he’s done so over the past 15 years with his No Straight Lines projects. This event was part of San Francisco Zine Fest 2021 and took part on the first of nine days of programming!
On February 27, 2021, I had the pleasure of speaking alongside Justin Hall, Nic Gitau, and Mariko Tamaki on a panel moderated by andré m. carrington about LGBTQ+ issues in comics art, history, publishing, and events. Each of us briefly presented from our own perspectives in the comics world. This video is available as part of the MSU Comics Forum 2021.
Below, you’ll find a list of UF English faculty and graduate students who will be at the upcoming MLA 2020 Conference in Seattle. If I’ve missed your name or if you’re a UF English alum presenting at MLA and wish to be added to the list, please be in contact with Margaret Galvan (margaretgalvan at ufl dot edu).
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.
For the first annual Comics Studies Society conference in 2018, I had the privilege of being in dialogue with a bunch of amazing women about how we might rethink comics history in ways that would center the experiences of women. The spark for this panel arose out of a series of exchanges on Twitter that made evident the still fraught position of women in comics studies—as Tahneer Oksman asked in a tweet: “What does it mean to be a woman writing about comics?”
On March 22, 2017, I spoke alongside comics scholar Ramzi Fawaz and cartoonists Phil Jimenez and Jennifer Camper about queer studies and LGBTQ representation in comics. Each of us presented briefly about our research and work and fielded a number of questions from the lively audience. This video is available via the Strand Book Store’s YouTube channel.
