Of potential interest:
SCMLA 2017 special session panel on Graphic Texts & Visual Rhetoric: Migrations, Translations & Transformations
https://www.cfplist.com/CFP.aspx?CID=10646
Seeking presentations about graphic novels, graphic memoir, graphic nonfiction, memes, propaganda posters, protest art, modernist manifestos, or other texts where image is central to communicating meaning. All approaches--from practical pedagogy to literary analysis--are welcome. Preference will be given to work addressing some aspect of the conference theme ("Moving Words: Migrations, Translations, and Transformations").
If selected, the panel will take place at SCMLA in Tulsa, OK, October 5-8, 2017.
Please submit an abstract, contact information, and academic affiliation (if any) to Panel Organizer: Rita D. Costello, McNeese State University, rcostello@mcneese.edu. Proposals should be sent by the end of the day February 12th.
Contact Email: rcostello@mcneese.edu
Website: http://southcentralmla.org/files/4614/8536/5871/Winter_2017.pdf
Originating in 2010, Saving the Day: Accessing Comics in the Twenty-first Century is designed as a aid to furthering studies of the comics, comic art, and translations of comics into/from other media. The blog is associated with both The Arthur of the Comics Project, an effort of the Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain, and The Medieval Comics Project, an effort of the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture.