Alexander Dunst teaches American Studies at Paderborn University. His research focuses on twentieth-century cultural history, the digital humanities, and contemporary US literature. He is the author of Madness in Cold War America (2016) and coedited the essay collection Empirical Comics Research (2018).

• Preface; 1. Introduction: Computational Criticism and the Transformation of Comics; 2. How We Read Comics Now: Graphic Narrative Beyond Close Reading; 3. Time, Color, and Cultural Capital in Graphic Narrative; 4. Novel Values: The Density of the Comic Book as Graphic Novel; 5. The Social Imagination of Graphic Narrative; 6. Conclusion: The Contact Zones of Contemporary Literature.

Alexander Dunst teaches American Studies at Paderborn University. His research focuses on twentieth-century cultural history, the digital humanities, and contemporary US literature. He is the author of Madness in Cold War America (2016) and coedited the essay collection Empirical Comics Research (2018).

• Preface; 1. Introduction: Computational Criticism and the Transformation of Comics; 2. How We Read Comics Now: Graphic Narrative Beyond Close Reading; 3. Time, Color, and Cultural Capital in Graphic Narrative; 4. Novel Values: The Density of the Comic Book as Graphic Novel; 5. The Social Imagination of Graphic Narrative; 6. Conclusion: The Contact Zones of Contemporary Literature.

Alexander Dunst teaches American Studies at Paderborn University. His research focuses on twentieth-century cultural history, the digital humanities, and contemporary US literature. He is the author of Madness in Cold War America (2016) and coedited the essay collection Empirical Comics Research (2018).

• Preface; 1. Introduction: Computational Criticism and the Transformation of Comics; 2. How We Read Comics Now: Graphic Narrative Beyond Close Reading; 3. Time, Color, and Cultural Capital in Graphic Narrative; 4. Novel Values: The Density of the Comic Book as Graphic Novel; 5. The Social Imagination of Graphic Narrative; 6. Conclusion: The Contact Zones of Contemporary Literature.