Monday, May 30, 2011
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Comics Scholarship at NeMLA 2011
The NeMLA 2011 Convention was held last month at the Hyatt New Brunswick in New Brunswick, New Jersey, from April 7-10, 2011, and included a variety of papers and sessions of interest. The complete program (divided by days) can be accessed at: http://www.nemla.org/convention/2011/index.html.
FRIDAY, APRIL 8
4.04 Conference B
Seeing Texts and Speaking Images: Visual-Verbal Dialogues in Modernity
Chair: Mary V. Marchand, Goucher College
PAPER 3 OF 3: “Text and Image in Partnership: Narrative Intersections in Jeff Smith’s Bone”
Emily Lauer, Hunter College
6.11 Conference JK
Adoption in Contemporary Literature and Culture (Roundtable)
Chair: Nicole Furlonge, Stuart Country Day School
PAPER 1 OF 3: “The Collapse of the Reunion Fantasy in Daniel Clowes’ Wilson: An Adoption Counter Narrative”
Genie Giaimo, Northeastern University
PAPER 2 OF 3: “What is for others nature/is for us culture: Constructions of Adoption on Heroes”
Nicole Furlonge, Stuart Country Day School
8.04 Conference B
Naming and Framing: Identity Construction in Children’s Literature and Culture
Chair: Julie Cassidy, Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY
PAPER 2 OF 4: “Which Powerpuff Girl Are You?: Unsettling Identity Types and Redefining Conventional Girlhood”
Lisa Hager, University of Wisconsin-Waukesha
9.09 Conference G
Captions, Slogans, and Stares (Oh, My!): Image as Argument in College Writing (Roundtable)
Chair: Peter Witkowsky, Mount Saint Mary College
PAPER 6 OF 6: “Our President, the Monster: Graphic Political Arguments in the Composition Classroom”
Angela Francis, CUNY Graduate Center
SATURDAY, 9 APRIL
11.07 Conference D
Serial Narratives and Temporality
Chair: Toni Pape, Université de Montréal
“‘Make It Repeatable’: Postmodern Seriality and the Repetition of What Is Yet to Come”
Stephen Hock, Virginia Wesleyan College
“Serial Historiography: Toward an Ethics of Irreducible Elements in Narrative Histories”
Ben Bolling, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
“Aging at the Speed of Plot: The X-Men and Chronology”
Will Duffy, SUNY Buffalo
“Temporalities on Collision Course: Time, Knowledge and Temporal Critique in Damages”
Toni Pape, Université de Montréal
11.09 Conference A
Twentieth-Century Blake
Chair: Jon Gagas, Temple University
PAPER 1 OF 4: “William Blake’s Milton, Grant Morrison’s Final Crisis, and the End of the Epic Narrative”
Geoff Klock, Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY
14.05 Conference I
Classical Women in Modern Literature and Media
Chairs: Krishni Burns, SUNY Buffalo; William Duffy, SUNY Buffalo
PAPER 3 OF 4: “Heroes and Amazons in Y: the last man”
Luiz Guilherme, Universidade de São Paulo
15.08 Conference G
Reading the Postcolonial Other in Contemporary Film (Roundtable)
Chairs: Sophie Lavin, SUNY Stony Brook; Tracey Walters, SUNY Stony Brook
PAPER 5 OF 6: “Coming-of-Age and Cultural Revolution in Persepolis”
Rachel Graf, University of Washington
SUNDAY, APRIL 10
18.10 Regency E
What a ‘Man’’s Gotta Do: (Re)Defining Duty in Post-Feminist Action Films (Seminar)
Chair: Elizabeth Abele, SUNY Nassau Community College
PAPER 2 OF 6: “When Eleven Year-Olds Kick-Ass: Hit-Girl As Role Model Or Victim?”
Keith Friedlander, University of Ottawa
PAPER 5 OF 6: “‘I Won’t Feel a Thing’: Ironic Masculinity in Joss Whedon’s ‘Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog’”
Derek S. McGrath, SUNY Stony Brook
FRIDAY, APRIL 8
4.04 Conference B
Seeing Texts and Speaking Images: Visual-Verbal Dialogues in Modernity
Chair: Mary V. Marchand, Goucher College
PAPER 3 OF 3: “Text and Image in Partnership: Narrative Intersections in Jeff Smith’s Bone”
Emily Lauer, Hunter College
6.11 Conference JK
Adoption in Contemporary Literature and Culture (Roundtable)
Chair: Nicole Furlonge, Stuart Country Day School
PAPER 1 OF 3: “The Collapse of the Reunion Fantasy in Daniel Clowes’ Wilson: An Adoption Counter Narrative”
Genie Giaimo, Northeastern University
PAPER 2 OF 3: “What is for others nature/is for us culture: Constructions of Adoption on Heroes”
Nicole Furlonge, Stuart Country Day School
8.04 Conference B
Naming and Framing: Identity Construction in Children’s Literature and Culture
Chair: Julie Cassidy, Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY
PAPER 2 OF 4: “Which Powerpuff Girl Are You?: Unsettling Identity Types and Redefining Conventional Girlhood”
Lisa Hager, University of Wisconsin-Waukesha
9.09 Conference G
Captions, Slogans, and Stares (Oh, My!): Image as Argument in College Writing (Roundtable)
Chair: Peter Witkowsky, Mount Saint Mary College
PAPER 6 OF 6: “Our President, the Monster: Graphic Political Arguments in the Composition Classroom”
Angela Francis, CUNY Graduate Center
SATURDAY, 9 APRIL
11.07 Conference D
Serial Narratives and Temporality
Chair: Toni Pape, Université de Montréal
“‘Make It Repeatable’: Postmodern Seriality and the Repetition of What Is Yet to Come”
Stephen Hock, Virginia Wesleyan College
“Serial Historiography: Toward an Ethics of Irreducible Elements in Narrative Histories”
Ben Bolling, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
“Aging at the Speed of Plot: The X-Men and Chronology”
Will Duffy, SUNY Buffalo
“Temporalities on Collision Course: Time, Knowledge and Temporal Critique in Damages”
Toni Pape, Université de Montréal
11.09 Conference A
Twentieth-Century Blake
Chair: Jon Gagas, Temple University
PAPER 1 OF 4: “William Blake’s Milton, Grant Morrison’s Final Crisis, and the End of the Epic Narrative”
Geoff Klock, Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY
14.05 Conference I
Classical Women in Modern Literature and Media
Chairs: Krishni Burns, SUNY Buffalo; William Duffy, SUNY Buffalo
PAPER 3 OF 4: “Heroes and Amazons in Y: the last man”
Luiz Guilherme, Universidade de São Paulo
15.08 Conference G
Reading the Postcolonial Other in Contemporary Film (Roundtable)
Chairs: Sophie Lavin, SUNY Stony Brook; Tracey Walters, SUNY Stony Brook
PAPER 5 OF 6: “Coming-of-Age and Cultural Revolution in Persepolis”
Rachel Graf, University of Washington
SUNDAY, APRIL 10
18.10 Regency E
What a ‘Man’’s Gotta Do: (Re)Defining Duty in Post-Feminist Action Films (Seminar)
Chair: Elizabeth Abele, SUNY Nassau Community College
PAPER 2 OF 6: “When Eleven Year-Olds Kick-Ass: Hit-Girl As Role Model Or Victim?”
Keith Friedlander, University of Ottawa
PAPER 5 OF 6: “‘I Won’t Feel a Thing’: Ironic Masculinity in Joss Whedon’s ‘Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog’”
Derek S. McGrath, SUNY Stony Brook
Comics Sessions at ALA 2011
The 22nd Annual Conference of the American Literature Association will be held later this month at The Westin Copley Place, Boston, Massachusetts, from 26-29 May 2011, and there are a number of sessions of interest. The full program and registration information can be accessed at: http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/ala2/american_literature_assoc_2011.html.
THURSDAY, 26 MAY
Session 5-F Expanding the Working-Class Literary Canon: Claiming New Writers, Texts, and Genres (Marriott Tufts) Organized by the Society for the Study of Working-Class Literature
Chair: Paul Lauter, Trinity College
PAPER 4 OF 4. ―Sisterhood (and Brotherhood) of the Traveling Wallet: Coming to Class Consciousness through Comics and Graphic Novels
Sara Appel, Duke University
FRIDAY, 27 MAY
Session 9-M The ―small eye poet among the Moderns (Defender 7th Floor)
Organized by the E. E. Cummings Society
Chair: Millie Kidd, Mount St. Mary‘s College
PAPER 1 OF 3. ―" 'A Foreword to Krazy': E. E. Cummings' Love of the 'Lively Art' of Krazy Kat"
April Fallon, Kentucky State University
SATURDAY, 28 MAY
Session 17-A Problems and Possibilities in Defining American Comics: A Roundtable Discussion (Essex North Center) Organized by the American Society for Comics Studies
Chair: Derek Parker Royal, University of Nebraska at Kearney
1. Alfred Bendixen, Texas A&M University
2. Peter Coogan, Institute for Comics Studies
3. David Huxley, Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), co-editor, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics
4. M. Thomas Inge, Randolph-Macon College
5. Andrew Kunka, University of South Carolina at Sumter
6. Joan Ormrod, Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), co-editor, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics
7. Robert Weiner, Texas Tech University
8. Joseph Witek, Stetson University
Session 18-K Negotiations of Public and Private Trauma in Comic Art (Essex Center)
Chair: Charles Henebry, Boston University‘s College of General Studies
1. ―The Graphic Memoir in a State of Exception: Transformations of the Personal in Art Spiegelman‘s In the Shadow of No Towers
Lopamudra Basu, University of Wisconsin-Stout
2. ―Emerging from Comics: The Representation of Trauma in Alissa Torres‘s American Widow
Davida Pines, Boston University‘s College of General Studies
3. ―Scene and Obscene: Graphic Approaches to Child Sexual Abuse
Jane Tolmie, Queen‘s University, Kingston, Canada
Session 19-A Comic Books as Resistance Literature (Essex Center)
Organized by Jorge Santos Chair: Derek Parker Royal, University of Nebraska at Kearney
1. ―Re-Visioning Race: Transformations of the Passing Narrative in Incognegro (2008)
Martha J. Cutter, University of Connecticut, Editor of MELUS
2. ―Feminist and Counter-Apocalyptic Resistances in the Comic Art of Sam Kieth
Tof Eklund, Full Sail University
3. ―Killer Conventions: Sandman and Comics Resisting Academic Institutionalization
Daniel Anderson, Case Western Reserve University
4. ―Peter Parker: The Amazing Everyman and Marvel Comics‘ resistance to ―Patriot Act ideologies
Jorge Santos, University of Connecticut
Session 20-A Teaching the Graphic Novel (Essex Center)
Organized by the Contemporary Literature Society Chair, Karen Weekes, The Pennsylvania State University
1. ―The Spirit of '86
Jonathan W. Gray, John Jay College CUNY
2. ―Reading Theory with the Graphic Novel
Lisette Gibson, Capital University
3. ―I Kill Giants, or, I Might Kill Readers
Jennifer Mitchell, Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center
Session 20-N Organizing Meeting of American Society for Comics Studies
(Empire Room 7th Floor)
THURSDAY, 26 MAY
Session 5-F Expanding the Working-Class Literary Canon: Claiming New Writers, Texts, and Genres (Marriott Tufts) Organized by the Society for the Study of Working-Class Literature
Chair: Paul Lauter, Trinity College
PAPER 4 OF 4. ―Sisterhood (and Brotherhood) of the Traveling Wallet: Coming to Class Consciousness through Comics and Graphic Novels
Sara Appel, Duke University
FRIDAY, 27 MAY
Session 9-M The ―small eye poet among the Moderns (Defender 7th Floor)
Organized by the E. E. Cummings Society
Chair: Millie Kidd, Mount St. Mary‘s College
PAPER 1 OF 3. ―" 'A Foreword to Krazy': E. E. Cummings' Love of the 'Lively Art' of Krazy Kat"
April Fallon, Kentucky State University
SATURDAY, 28 MAY
Session 17-A Problems and Possibilities in Defining American Comics: A Roundtable Discussion (Essex North Center) Organized by the American Society for Comics Studies
Chair: Derek Parker Royal, University of Nebraska at Kearney
1. Alfred Bendixen, Texas A&M University
2. Peter Coogan, Institute for Comics Studies
3. David Huxley, Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), co-editor, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics
4. M. Thomas Inge, Randolph-Macon College
5. Andrew Kunka, University of South Carolina at Sumter
6. Joan Ormrod, Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), co-editor, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics
7. Robert Weiner, Texas Tech University
8. Joseph Witek, Stetson University
Session 18-K Negotiations of Public and Private Trauma in Comic Art (Essex Center)
Chair: Charles Henebry, Boston University‘s College of General Studies
1. ―The Graphic Memoir in a State of Exception: Transformations of the Personal in Art Spiegelman‘s In the Shadow of No Towers
Lopamudra Basu, University of Wisconsin-Stout
2. ―Emerging from Comics: The Representation of Trauma in Alissa Torres‘s American Widow
Davida Pines, Boston University‘s College of General Studies
3. ―Scene and Obscene: Graphic Approaches to Child Sexual Abuse
Jane Tolmie, Queen‘s University, Kingston, Canada
Session 19-A Comic Books as Resistance Literature (Essex Center)
Organized by Jorge Santos Chair: Derek Parker Royal, University of Nebraska at Kearney
1. ―Re-Visioning Race: Transformations of the Passing Narrative in Incognegro (2008)
Martha J. Cutter, University of Connecticut, Editor of MELUS
2. ―Feminist and Counter-Apocalyptic Resistances in the Comic Art of Sam Kieth
Tof Eklund, Full Sail University
3. ―Killer Conventions: Sandman and Comics Resisting Academic Institutionalization
Daniel Anderson, Case Western Reserve University
4. ―Peter Parker: The Amazing Everyman and Marvel Comics‘ resistance to ―Patriot Act ideologies
Jorge Santos, University of Connecticut
Session 20-A Teaching the Graphic Novel (Essex Center)
Organized by the Contemporary Literature Society Chair, Karen Weekes, The Pennsylvania State University
1. ―The Spirit of '86
Jonathan W. Gray, John Jay College CUNY
2. ―Reading Theory with the Graphic Novel
Lisette Gibson, Capital University
3. ―I Kill Giants, or, I Might Kill Readers
Jennifer Mitchell, Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center
Session 20-N Organizing Meeting of American Society for Comics Studies
(Empire Room 7th Floor)
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Comics Studies at PCA/ACA
There were a number of sessions of interest at last month's Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture & American Culture Association and the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture & American Culture Association held in San Antonio, Texas, from 4/20-23/11. Unfortunately, I cannot copy and paste from the PDF version of the program to list these sessions. The complete program can be accessed at http://pcaaca.org/conference/conf_program.php. Most of the sessions are listed under the Comics and Comic Art Area and the Graphic Novels, Comics, and Popular Culture Area.
Monday, May 9, 2011
New Book: Classics and Comics
Edited by George Kovacs and C. W. Marshall
ISBN13: 9780199734191
ISBN10: 0199734194
Paperback, 288 pages
Oxford University Press, Jan 2011
Price: $29.95
Also available: Hardback
Description
Since at least 1939, when daily-strip caveman Alley Oop time-traveled to the Trojan War, comics have been drawing (on) material from Greek and Roman myth, literature and history. At times the connection is cosmetic-as perhaps with Wonder Woman's Amazonian heritage-and at times it is almost irrelevant-as with Hercules' starfaring adventures in the 1982 Marvel miniseries. But all of these make implicit or explicit claims about the place of classics in modern literary culture.
Classics and Comics is the first book to explore the engagement of classics with the epitome of modern popular literature, the comic book. The volume collects sixteen articles, all specially commissioned for this volume, that look at how classical content is deployed in comics and reconfigured for a modern audience. It opens with a detailed historical introduction surveying the role of classical material in comics since the 1930s. Subsequent chapters cover a broad range of topics, including the incorporation of modern theories of myth into the creation and interpretation of comic books, the appropriation of characters from classical literature and myth, and the reconfiguration of motif into a modern literary medium. Among the well-known comics considered in the collection are Frank Miller's 300 and Sin City, DC Comics' Wonder Woman, Jack Kirby's The Eternals, Neil Gaiman's Sandman, and examples of Japanese manga. The volume also includes an original 12-page "comics-essay," drawn and written by Eisner Award-winning Eric Shanower, creator of the graphic novel series Age of Bronze.
Table of Contents:
Preface, C.W. Marshall and George Kovacs
Acknowledgments
1. Comics and Classics: Establishing a Critical Frame, George Kovacs
Seeing the Past through Sequential Art
2. An Ancient Greek Graphic Novel (P. Oxy. XXII 2331), Gideon Nisbet
3. Sequential Narrative and the Shield of Achilles, Kyle Johnson
4. Declassicizing the classical in Japanese comics, Nicholas A. Theisen
5. Heroes Unlimited, Brett M. Rogers
Gods and Superheroes
6. The Furies, Wonder Woman, and Dream, C. W. Marshall
7. Coming up to Code: Ancient Divinities Revisited, Craig Dethloff
8. The Burden of War: From Homer to Oeming, R. Clinton Simms
9. 'Seven Thunders Utter Their Voices', Benjamin Stevens
Drawing (on) History
10. Hard-Boiled Hot Gates, Vincent Tomasso
11. Persians in Frank Miller's 300 and Greek vase-painting, Emily Fairey
12. A Dream of Augustus, Anise K. Strong
13. Francophone Romes: Antiquity in les Bandes Dessinees, Martin Dinter
The Desires of Troy
14. Twenty-First Century Troy, Eric Shanower
15. Sex and Love in Eric Shanower's Age of Bronze, Chiara Sulprizio
16. Heavy Metal Homer, Thomas E. Jenkins
A reading list of Classics in Comics
Contributors
Bibliography
Index
About the Author(s)
George Kovacs teaches at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario.
C.W. Marshall is Associate Professor of Greek and Roman Theatre at the University of British Columbia.
CFP Transitions 2: New Directions in Comics Studies (7/31/11)
Comica Symposium 2011 - Transitions 2: New Directions in Comics Studies
full name / name of organization:
Birkbeck, University of London - School of Arts
contact email:
transitions.symposium@gmail.com
Transitions 2 is a one day symposium devoted to promoting new research into comics in all their forms. Rather than restricting itself to a specific theme, the symposium will highlight research from postgraduate students and early career lecturers bringing together different perspectives and methodoogies, whether cultural, historical, or formal, thereby mapping new trends and providing a space for dialogue and further collaboration to emerge. By thinking about comics across different disciplines, the intention is to spark debate and address a wide spectrum of questions.
We welcome abstracts of 250-300 words for twenty minute papers on topics as diverse as, but not limited to:
international iterations: manga, bande dessinée, fumetti etc. – children’s comics – superheroes – non-fiction comics – the (im)materiality of comics – formalist approaches – cultural histories – adaptation/remediation – autographics –early comics – comic strips – small press – alternative comics/underground comix – comics narratologies – political comics – comics and cultural theory – audiences – comics and the archive – subjectivity in comics – graphic medicine – fan subcultures – comics as historiography – key creators...
Abstracts should be submitted by July 31 2011 to Tony, Paul and Zara at transitions.symposium@gmail.com
The first Transitions symposium was the successful opening event of Comica 2010. Dr. Roger Sabin, Reader in Popular Culture at Central St. Martins and author of Adult Comics and Comics, Comix and Graphic Novels, will once again act as respondent.
Transitions 2 will open Comica 2011, the London International Comics Festival in association with Birkbeck, University of London, Studies in Comics, and European Comic Art.
full name / name of organization:
Birkbeck, University of London - School of Arts
contact email:
transitions.symposium@gmail.com
Transitions 2 is a one day symposium devoted to promoting new research into comics in all their forms. Rather than restricting itself to a specific theme, the symposium will highlight research from postgraduate students and early career lecturers bringing together different perspectives and methodoogies, whether cultural, historical, or formal, thereby mapping new trends and providing a space for dialogue and further collaboration to emerge. By thinking about comics across different disciplines, the intention is to spark debate and address a wide spectrum of questions.
We welcome abstracts of 250-300 words for twenty minute papers on topics as diverse as, but not limited to:
international iterations: manga, bande dessinée, fumetti etc. – children’s comics – superheroes – non-fiction comics – the (im)materiality of comics – formalist approaches – cultural histories – adaptation/remediation – autographics –early comics – comic strips – small press – alternative comics/underground comix – comics narratologies – political comics – comics and cultural theory – audiences – comics and the archive – subjectivity in comics – graphic medicine – fan subcultures – comics as historiography – key creators...
Abstracts should be submitted by July 31 2011 to Tony, Paul and Zara at transitions.symposium@gmail.com
The first Transitions symposium was the successful opening event of Comica 2010. Dr. Roger Sabin, Reader in Popular Culture at Central St. Martins and author of Adult Comics and Comics, Comix and Graphic Novels, will once again act as respondent.
Transitions 2 will open Comica 2011, the London International Comics Festival in association with Birkbeck, University of London, Studies in Comics, and European Comic Art.
CFP International Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels (5/31/11; Madrid 11/10-12/11)
International Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels
full name / name of organization:
Instituto Franklin-UAH
contact email:
graphicnovel@institutofranklin.net
International Conference on Comics and Graphics Novels (Alcalá de Henares, Madrid.
November 10th-12th, 2011)
The main objective of the conference is to bring together the largest number of specialists and researchers of comics (graphic novels, manga, BD, etc) in order to reflect on the study of this area.
CHARLES HATFIELD, JESSICA ABEL, ROGER SABIN and ANTONIO ALTARRIBA have confirmed their assistance as plenary speakers to this conference.
The theme is “Sites of visual and textual innovation” and it welcomes papers on (but not limited to):
-The origins of comics,
-Avant-garde and experimental works
-Biography and autobiography.
The languages of the conference will be English and Spanish.
Abstracts of approximately 250-500 words can be submitted to graphicnovel@institutofranklin.net . Deadline for acceptance: May, 31st 2011.
Conference will take place at Universidad de Alcalá in Spain.
For further information please visit: http://www.institutofranklin.net/en/conferences/graphic-novel
ORGANIZED BY:
Instituto Franklin - Universidad de Alcalá
full name / name of organization:
Instituto Franklin-UAH
contact email:
graphicnovel@institutofranklin.net
International Conference on Comics and Graphics Novels (Alcalá de Henares, Madrid.
November 10th-12th, 2011)
The main objective of the conference is to bring together the largest number of specialists and researchers of comics (graphic novels, manga, BD, etc) in order to reflect on the study of this area.
CHARLES HATFIELD, JESSICA ABEL, ROGER SABIN and ANTONIO ALTARRIBA have confirmed their assistance as plenary speakers to this conference.
The theme is “Sites of visual and textual innovation” and it welcomes papers on (but not limited to):
-The origins of comics,
-Avant-garde and experimental works
-Biography and autobiography.
The languages of the conference will be English and Spanish.
Abstracts of approximately 250-500 words can be submitted to graphicnovel@institutofranklin.net . Deadline for acceptance: May, 31st 2011.
Conference will take place at Universidad de Alcalá in Spain.
For further information please visit: http://www.institutofranklin.net/en/conferences/graphic-novel
ORGANIZED BY:
Instituto Franklin - Universidad de Alcalá
CFP Lois Lane Collection (8/1/11)
Collection of Essays exploring Lois Lane (1st of August 2011)
full name / name of organization:
Nadine Farghaly, M.A., Mag. Phil.
contact email:
Lois.Lane@gmx.net
Collection of essays exploring the character Lois Lane from the DC Superman Universe.
Did you ever wonder about the woman behind Superman? The woman who supports him and without whom one of America’s favourite heroes would be unable to fulfil his destiny? Rightly so! And yet, there is no work that examines this central figure in the Superman universe.
BEING LOIS will be the first book that will focus on this female protagonists and her significance in popular culture.
Lois Lane first appeared in the issue # 1 of the in 1938 founded Superman universe. Since her creation Lois Lane’s character has developed even more than Superman’s. The woman next to the man of steel had to find and fight her way through multiple feministic waves, eight decades of changing ideologies and the constant reinvention of her character by other artists.
Starting with the graphic novels, over radio and Broadway appearances to various movies and TV shows, not to forget the multitude of culture references that are connected to her, Lois Lane never left the audiences’ sight. This well beloved character not only functions as a role model for millions of women and girls, but she also reflects women’s struggles within a mostly male dominated world.
This publication aims to examine Lois Lane in literature, art, and other media to questions concerning sexuality, gender, social change and feminism. It will provide an interdisciplinary stage for the development of innovative and creative research and examine this vital and complex female protagonist in all her various manifestations and cultural meanings.
Please send one page (around 500 words) abstracts to the following E-mail address Lois.Lane@gmx.net
And include the following information:
Writers submit a 1-page synopsis of their proposed chapter to us clearly stating:
[a] the research question
[b] the methodology
[c] the findings
[d] the bibliography (5 sources)
Deadline: 1st of August 2011
For questions please contact
Nadine Farghaly
Lois.Lane@gmx.net
Hope to hear from you soon.
Nadine
full name / name of organization:
Nadine Farghaly, M.A., Mag. Phil.
contact email:
Lois.Lane@gmx.net
Collection of essays exploring the character Lois Lane from the DC Superman Universe.
Did you ever wonder about the woman behind Superman? The woman who supports him and without whom one of America’s favourite heroes would be unable to fulfil his destiny? Rightly so! And yet, there is no work that examines this central figure in the Superman universe.
BEING LOIS will be the first book that will focus on this female protagonists and her significance in popular culture.
Lois Lane first appeared in the issue # 1 of the in 1938 founded Superman universe. Since her creation Lois Lane’s character has developed even more than Superman’s. The woman next to the man of steel had to find and fight her way through multiple feministic waves, eight decades of changing ideologies and the constant reinvention of her character by other artists.
Starting with the graphic novels, over radio and Broadway appearances to various movies and TV shows, not to forget the multitude of culture references that are connected to her, Lois Lane never left the audiences’ sight. This well beloved character not only functions as a role model for millions of women and girls, but she also reflects women’s struggles within a mostly male dominated world.
This publication aims to examine Lois Lane in literature, art, and other media to questions concerning sexuality, gender, social change and feminism. It will provide an interdisciplinary stage for the development of innovative and creative research and examine this vital and complex female protagonist in all her various manifestations and cultural meanings.
Please send one page (around 500 words) abstracts to the following E-mail address Lois.Lane@gmx.net
And include the following information:
Writers submit a 1-page synopsis of their proposed chapter to us clearly stating:
[a] the research question
[b] the methodology
[c] the findings
[d] the bibliography (5 sources)
Deadline: 1st of August 2011
For questions please contact
Nadine Farghaly
Lois.Lane@gmx.net
Hope to hear from you soon.
Nadine
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