Teaching Comics and Graphic Narratives

Lan Dong is an assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois, Springfield. She is the author or editor of three books and has written a number of journal articles and book chapters on Asian American literature, children’s literature, and popular culture.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Foreword by Robert G. Weiner      Introduction: Reading and Teaching Graphic NarrativesLAN DONG       Part I : American Studies      1. Art and Commerce in the Classroom: Teaching an American Studies Course in ComicsEDWARD A. SHANNON       2. The Black Politics of Newspaper Comic Strips: Teaching Aaron McGruder’s The Boondocks and Keith Knight’s The K ChroniclesDANIEL STEIN       3. Teaching the Comics Anthology: The Readers, Authors, and Media of McSweeney’s      ALEXANDER STARRE       4. Teaching Visual Literacy Through 9/11 Graphic NarrativesCHRISTINA MEYER       Part II : Ethnic Studies       5. Drawing Attention: Comics as a Means of Approaching U.S. Cultural DiversityDEREK PARKER ROYAL       6. Teaching Asian American Graphic Narratives in a “Post-Race”ANNE CONG-HUYEN and CAROLINE KYUNGAH HONG       7. Graphic Multiculturalism: Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660 in the Literature ClassroomJESSICA KNIGHT             Part III : Women’s and Gender Studies      8. “The Slippage Between Seeing and Saying”: Getting a Life in Alison Bechdel’s Fun HomeSUSAN R. VAN DYNE       9. Our Graphics, Ourselves: Graphic Narratives and the Gender Studies ClassroomM. CATHERINE JONET       10. Performing the Veil: Gender and Resistance in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis and Shirin Neshat’s PhotographyJUDITH RICHARDS and CYNTHIA M. WILLIAMS       Part IV : Cultural Studies      11. The Weimar Republic Redux: Multiperspectival History in Jason Lutes’ Berlin City of StonesJOSHUA KAVALOSKI       12. Ivorian Bonus: Teaching Abouet and Oubrerie’sSUSANNA HOENESS-KRUPSAW       13. Digging Up the Dirt? Teaching Graphic Narratives in German AcademiaSTEFAN HOEPPNER       Part V : Genre Studies       14. Making the Unseen and the Unspoken Visible and Audible: Trauma and the Graphic NovelEDWARD BRUNNER       15. Exposition and Disquisition: Nonfiction Graphic Narratives and Comics Theory in the Literature ClassroomADRIELLE ANNA MITCHELL       16. Serial Self-Portraits: Framing Student Conversations About Graphic MemoirJONATHAN D’AMORE       Part VI : Composition, Rhetoric, and Communication       17. Batman Returns (to Class): Graphic Narratives and the Syncretic ClassroomKATHARINE POLAK MACDONALD       18. 300 Ways to Teach the EpicMARY ANN TOBIN       19. Comics (as) Journalism: Teaching Joe Sacco’s Palestine to Media StudentsALLA GADASSIK AND SARAH HENSTRA       About the Contributors      Index