Teaching Graphic Novels in the English Classroom

Alissa Burger is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum at Culver-Stockton College, USA. She teaches courses in research, writing, and literature, including a single-author seminar on Stephen King. She is the author of Teaching Stephen King: Horror, The Supernatural, and New Approaches to Literature.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Not Just Novels: The Pedagogical Possibilities of the Graphic Narrative.- 3. Understanding Rhetoric, Understanding Genre: A Rhetorical Genre Studies Approached Writing Course.- 4. Writing Through Comics.- 5. Teaching the History and Theory of American Comics: 20th Century Graphic Novels as a Complex Literary Genre.- 6. “What is the use of a book … without pictures of conversations?”: Incorporating the Graphic Novel into the University Curriculum.- 7. “Does Doctor Manhattan Think?”: Alan Moore’s The Watchmen and ‘Great Books’ Curriculum in the Early College Setting.- 8. “If He Be Mr. Hyde, We Shall Be Mr. See”: Using Graphic Novels, Comic Books, and the Visual Narrative in the Gothic Literature Classroom.- 9. Teaching March in the Borderlands Between Social Justice and Pop Culture.- 10. Revising the Rhetoric of ‘Boat People’ Through the Interactive Graphic Adaptation of Nam Le’s “The Boat”.- 11. Performative Pedagogies and Performative Texts: Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home as Compositional Model.