Contributors
- Contributors
Jeremy M. Carnes is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is writing a dissertation that explores various ways comics depict temporality. Using both queer theory and critical indigenous theory, he argues that comics form carries radical possibilities for the queering and decolonization of both time and history.
Margaret Galvan is Assistant Professor of Visual Rhetoric in the Department of English at the University of Florida. She is at work on a book, In Visible Archives of the 1980s: Feminist Politics & Queer Platforms, under contract with the University of Minnesota Press, which examines how contemporary publishing practices—and the historical archiving of those publishing activities—have played critical roles in the development of understandings of the visual within feminist and queer political activism during the 1970s and 1980s. Her published work, which analyzes comics through intersectional approaches, can be found in journals like Australian Feminist Studies, WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly, Archive Journal, American Literature, and Journal of Lesbian Studies. See margaretgalvan. org for more information.
Aaron Kashtan is a lecturer in the University Writing Program at UNC Charlotte. His first book, Between Pen and Pixel: Comics, Materiality, and the Book of the Future, was published by Ohio State University Press in 2018, and he is currently working on a project about the changing dynamics of comics fandom. He has served as chair of the Executive Committee of the MLA Forum for Comics and Graphic Novels.
Joshua Abraham Kopin is a PhD candidate in American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, writing a dissertation that frames comics as a nineteenth century technology of time and space. He received a 2018–2019 Swann Fellowship at the Library of Congress and his work has appeared in American Literature and is forthcoming in Keywords For Comics Studies. From 2017–2019 he was the President of the Comics Studies Society Graduate Student Caucus and he is currently promotions coordinator on the executive committee for the International Comics Art Forum.
Leah Misemer is Assistant Director of the Communication Center and a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research centers on how marginalized audiences have historically used comics to form communities of solidarity. [End Page 130] You can find her work in Composition Studies and Forum for World Literature Studies, as well as in several edited collections.
Hussein Rashid, PhD, is a contingent faculty member, currently affiliated with Lang College of The New School. His work focuses on Muslims and American popular culture, with an interest in Shi'i theology.
Lara Saguisag is Assistant Professor of English at the City University of New York-College of Staten Island. Her book Incorrigibles and Innocents: Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Comics (Rutgers UP, 2018) received the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association's Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Single Work by One or More Authors. With Matthew B. Prickett, she co-edited The Lion and the Unicorn's special issue on Children's Rights and Children's Literature (2016).
Jorge Santos serves as an assistant professor of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States at the College of the Holy Cross. His work has appeared in MELUS, College Literature, and Image/Text. His first monograph, Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement: Reframing History with Comics, is due out from The University of Texas Press in June of 2019.
David Sweeten is an Assistant Professor of Early British Literature at Eastern New Mexico University whose work focuses on the intersections of economic thought, gender, and marriage in Middle English texts, most recently publishing an essay entitled "'Whoso wele schal wyn, a wastour moste he fynde': Inter-reliant Economies and Social Capital in Wynnere and Wastoure" in a collection on economics in Late Medieval English Literature and two forthcoming entries in The Chaucer Encyclopedia. David's research interests also include popular culture, including a co-organized panel and paper on Dystopian borders in Westworld and 3% at the Southwest Popular Culture Association 2018 meeting, and he has taught several courses on comics, the cultures of fandom, and fantasy fiction.
Essi Varis hails from the University of Jyväskylä, Central Finland, where she has...
