Visual Storytelling in the 21st Century

David Callahan is Associate Professor in Department of Languages & Cultures at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He has previously published one monograph, Rainforest Narratives: The Work of Janette Turner Hospital (2009), and has edited Contemporary Issues in Australian Literature (2002), Australia: Who Cares? (2007), and Body & Text: Cultural Transformations in New Media Environments (Springer, 2019).

• Chapter 1. David Callahan, University of Aveiro, Portugal: “Preface: Visual Storytelling in the Age of the Fragment”.- Chapter 2. Víctor Navarro Remesal, Tecnocampus, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona: “Video Games as Animation: Inquiring into the Ontology of Playable Images.”.- Chapter 3. David Callahan, University of Aveiro, Portugal: “Making the World More Just Through Video Games? Rerouting Caroline Levine’s Forms.”.- Chapter 4. Bartosz Stopel, University of Silesia, Poland: “"Wonder, Awe and Negative Emotions in What Remains of Edith Finch.”.- Chapter 5. Rebeca López González, University of Vigo, Spain: “Animated monsters and today's popular culture nightmares.”.- Chapter 6. Ana Bessa Carvalho, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal: “Look Behind You, Orpheus: Queer Archaeology and Mythical Lesbians in Contemporary Film.”.- Chapter 7. Anthony Barker, University of Aveiro, Portugal: “Bourne-again Bond: Retooling the Spy Story in the new Millennium.”.- Chapter 8. Alena Zhylinskaya, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland: “‘All these things into position’: Radiohead’s Street Spirit, the Post-colonial Nigerian Novel, and Feminist Dystopia.”.- Chapter 9. Nicoletta Mandolini, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal: “What’s the Story? How Hybrid Comics against Gender Violence Rework Narrative.”.- Chapter 10. Chen Li, Tilburg University, Netherlands: “The graphic self of public intellectuals: Chinese tiaoman as digital practices of self-representation on WeChat.”.- Chapter 11. Patrícia Oliveira & Carlos Vargas & Cristina Montalvão Sarmento, University of Lisbon, Portugal & Nova University, Portugal: “Voices of graffiti in urban settings: symbolic contestation and political narratives.”.- Chapter 12. Sheila Brannigan, Nova University, Lisbon, Portugal: “Through Etched Glass: Representing Urban Place in Christina Fernandez's Lavanderia series.”.- Chapter 13. Roger Davis, Red Deer Polytechnic, Alberta, Canada: “Imagining the Artwork in Geological Time.”.