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Robert Aman is Lecturer in Education at Linköping University. He primarily conducts research on ideology, national identity, and the politics of representation in comics. He has published a number of articles in journals such as Third Text, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics and Cultural Studies. His book, Decolonising Intercultural Education: Colonial Differences, the Geopolitics of Knowledge, and Inter-Epistemic Dialogue (London: Routledge), was published in 2017.
Jan Baetens is professor of literary and cultural studies at the University of Leuven (Belgium). He has published widely on word and images issues. His most recent books are Pour le roman-photo(Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2017), The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel (coedited with Hugo Frey and Steve Tabachnick, Cambridge UP 2108) and The Film Photonovel (Texas UP, 2019).
Max Bledstein is a PhD candidate in Film Studies at the University of New South Wales. He has taught courses on comics and composition at the University of Winnipeg and Brandon University. His research examines relationships between fictionalized narratives and national identity.
Jay Dolmage is Associate Professor of English at the University of Waterloo. His work brings together rhetoric, writing, disability studies, and critical pedagogy. His first book, entitled Disability Rhetoric, was published with Syracuse University Press in 2014. Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education was published with Michigan University Press in 2017 and is available in an open-access version online. Disabled Upon Arrival: Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability was published in 2018 with Ohio State University Press. Jay is the Founding Editor of the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies.
Dale Jacobs is the author of Graphic Encounters: Comics and the Sponsorship of Multi-modal Literacy (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013). His essays on comics have appeared in English Journal, College Composition and Communication, Biography, ImageText, Journal of Comics and Culture, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, Studies in Comics, and Journal of Teaching Writing. With Jay Dolmage, he has published chapters on comics and disability in The Future of Text and Image: Collected Essays on Literary and Visual Conjunctures and Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives. He is the editor of The Myles Horton Reader (University of Tennessee Press, 2003) and the co-editor (with Laura Micciche) of A Way to Move: Rhetorics of Emotion and Composition Studies (Boynton Cook/Heinemann, 2003).
Rachel Kunert-Graf holds a PhD in English, with a certificate in Film and Media Studies, from the University of Washington. She holds adjunct positions at Shoreline Community College and Antioch University. She is author of "Comics and Narratological Perspective: (Witnessing) Bias in Direct Experience," published in ImageText (2018) and "Dehumanized Victims: Analogies and Animal Avatars for Palestinian Suffering in Waltz with Bashir and 'War Rabbit,'" published in Humanities (2018).
Martha Kuhlman is chair of the Department of English and Cultural Studies at Bryant University. She edited The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing is a Way of Thinking (2010), published by the University Press of Mississippi, and has contributed chapters to a number of books on graphic novels, including Drawing From the Classics: Essays on Graphic Adaptations of Literary Works, the Cambridge Companion to the Graphic Novel, and Approaches to Teaching the Graphic Novel. Currently she is working on an edited volume titled Comics of the New Europe with Leuven University Press. She served on the MLA Forum on Comics and Graphic Narratives from 2012–2017, and is currently a member of the Comics Studies Society executive board.
Rachel R. Miller is a feminist media scholar and PhD candidate at The Ohio State University, and was formerly the assistant editor for Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society. Her current project, The Girls' Room: Bedroom Culture and the Ephemeral Archive in the 1990s examines the exchanges between third-wave feminist grassroots media like zines and self-published comics and mainstream, girl-oriented mass culture in the 1990s. You can visit her online at rachelrmiller.com.
Jan Susina teaches courses in Children's and Young Adult literature and Graphic Narrative at Illinois State University. He includes comics and graphic novels in all his Children's and Young Adult literature courses.
Benjamin Woo is assistant professor of communication and media studies at Carleton University (Ottawa...
