The Comics Grid Webinar Series: Troubling Boundaries, Leaking Forms: Reading Bechdel's Fun Home and Carroll's Through the Woods with Dr Jeanette D'Arcy and Dr Miranda Corcoran.
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Troubling Boundaries, Leaking Forms: Reading Bechdel's Fun Home and Carroll's Through the Woods with Dr Jeanette D'Arcy and Dr Miranda Corcoran.
To join the webinar: We recommend that attendees use Chrome to join. Collaborate works better if Google Chrome is used.
On this inaugural webinar co-hosted by Paula Clemente Vega (Open Library of Humanities) and Dr Ernesto Priego (editor, The Comics Grid; City, University of London) panelists Dr Jeanette D'Arcy (University of South Wales) and Dr Miranda Corcoran (University College Cork) will discuss their respective Comics Grid articles on Alison Bechdel's Fun Home (2006) and Emily Carroll’s Through the Woods (2014).
Participants are strongly encouraged to read both articles in preparation for the webinar.
Articles to discuss:
• D’Arcy, J., 2019. Troubling Boundaries and Negotiating Dominant Culture: Fun Home as a Transmedial Text. The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, 9(1), p.17. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/cg.146
• Corcoran, M., 2020. Bleeding Panels, Leaking Forms: Reading the Abject in Emily Carroll’s Through the Woods (2014). The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, 10(1), p.5. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/cg.198
The Comics Grid Webinar Series will offer an online opportunity to chat live with authors about their articles published recently in the journal. Each episode will focus on two articles whose potential thematic and/or methodological interconnections can be explored and contrasted in order to stimulate scholarly discussion, collective learning and further research.
This event is organised by the Open Library of Humanities (OLH). The Open Library of Humanities is an academic-led, gold open-access publisher with no author-facing charges. With initial funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the platform covers its costs by payments from an international library consortium, rather than any kind of author fee.
Contact name:
Paula Clemente Vega
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Dr Paul Fisher Davies
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Dr Paul Fisher Davies gained his Ph.D. in 2017 in the school of English at University of Sussex. His monograph Comics as Communication: A Functional Approach was published by Palgrave in December 2019. He has published in Studies in Comics, the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, and The Comics Grid amongst others, including academic work in comics form. He currently teaches English Language at East Sussex College in Lewes, UK. As well as studying and writing about graphic narrative form, he has written a collection of graphic short stories, with previews archived at www.crosbies.co.uk.
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Lydia Wysocki
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Lydia Wysocki is an educational researcher at Newcastle University, using sociocultural theory to explore how what people read influences how they understand the social world. She founded and leads Applied Comics Etc, working with subject specialists and comics artist-writers to make comics that communicate specific information.