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Wrestling Graphic Novels: A Comics Grid Webinar with Anna Marta Marini and Jessica Fontaine

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On this fourth webinar co-hosted by Paula Clemente Vega (Open Library of Humanities) and Dr Ernesto Priego (editor, The Comics Grid; City, University of London) panelists Anna Marta Marini (Universidad de Alcalá) and Jessica Fontaine (McGill University) will discuss the following Comics Grid articles:

• Marini, A.M., (2021) “Discursive (Re)Contruction of Mexican American Identity in J. Gonzo's La Mano del Destino”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 11(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.211

• Fontaine J., (2017) “Illusion, Kayfabe, and Identity Performance in Box Brown and Brandon Easton’s Andre the Giant Graphic Biographies”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 7(0), p.17. doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.96

The Comics Grid Webinar Series offers an online opportunity to chat live with authors about their articles published recently in the journal. Each episode focuses 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. You can watch the previous webinars of the series, here.

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.

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Speakers
  • Johanna Commins -

    Johanna Commins is a PhD candidate at Melbourne Law School and a member of the Institute of International Law and the Humanities. Her professional background is in refugee law and her current research is in law and literature, broadly defined. Her thesis reads Margaret Atwood’s novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, as a feminist jurisprudential text and uses it and its various iterations to think about relations between law, literature and women.

  • Neal Curtis -

    Dr Neal Curtis is Associate Professor in Media and Screen at the University of Auckland. His recent books include Sovereignty and Superheroes (Manchester University Press, 2016) and Hate in Precarious Times: Mobilizing Anxiety from the Alt-Right to Brexit (I. B. Tauris, 2021). He is currently working on a book project for University Press of Mississippi entitled Comics and Communication: Graphic Storytelling from Activism to Science.