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: Gender Theory: Femininities and Masculinities
My essay, “Gender Theory: Femininities and Masculinities,” has been published in the Blackwell collection, A Companion to Literary Theory (Wiley Blackwell, 2018). This book presents a range of established and emerging fields of literary criticism and is written in an accessible manner that would appeal to undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty looking to familiarize themselves with different traditions of research.
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).
Article: From Kitty to Cat: Kitty Pryde and the Phases of Feminism
My essay, “From Kitty to Cat: Kitty Pryde and the Phases of Feminism” has been published in the collection, The Ages of the X-Men (McFarland, 2014).