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Graphic Possibilities Research Workshop

 

Guest post on behalf of our colleagues in Metadata Initiatives at The Ohio State University Libraries :

Join us for the Graphic Possibilities Research Workshop!  Graphic Possibilities is a research workshop in the Department of English at Michigan State University. This research workshop engages with comics through two interrelated branches, critical inquiry and engaged pedagogy, as a means of bringing together faculty and graduate students with current and burgeoning interests in comic studies. Critical inquiry manifests in any number of ways through comics, including treating comics as data, comics as scholarship, and comics as critical-making, what Stacey Robinson and John Jennings term to be a methodological approach that insists scholars engage with broader critical and cultural conversations through the act of making comics. Alongside of this, we explore how scholar-practitioners can make pedagogical interventions about/through the comics medium in an effort to develop new strategies for teaching and working with comics pedagogically.

As part of the 50 States of Comics, the focus is now on Ohio! In this workshop, we will work with titles published in Ohio as we update Wikidata entries linked to the Comic Art Collection! This event will build on our previous Wikidata-edit-a-thons, in which participants edited and updated entries linked to the Comic Art Collection. If you love comics and want to share information about them with the world, this workshop is for you. We get to evaluate the existing information in Wikidata, add more, and match up information in library catalog records. If you’re new to Wikidata, there are some training materials provided on the event website. It’s all in good fun but you also get to learn.

Register for the event here!

Congratulations to the 2024 Lucy Shelton Caswell Research Award Winners!

The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum (BICLM) is pleased to announce the winners of the annual Lucy Shelton Caswell Research Award for 2024. The award is named for Professor Emerita Lucy Shelton Caswell, the founding curator of BICLM, and provides $2500 to support researchers who need to travel to Columbus, Ohio to use the BICLM collections materials on site. We were delighted to receive a robust and diverse range of proposals from both national and international scholars and artists. A panel of reviewers from a variety of disciplines at Ohio State was appointed to assess the proposals.

The recipients for 2024 are Dr. Safiyya Hosein and Dr. Jonathan Najarian.

Dr. Safiyya Hosein

Dr. Safiyya Hosein is a lecturer at Toronto Metropolitan University and holds a PhD in Communication and Culture. Her research focuses on Muslim superheroes, Muslim audiences, and Muslim fandoms. Hosein has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Popular Culture Studies Journal, Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, and The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, as well as in the popular press such as The Conversation, the CBC, Spice Radio, the National Post, and in many international media outlets. As a comics writer, her work appears in The Nib and several comics anthologies. In 2017, she was selected by Vice Media Motherboard for their “Humans of the Year” series. Hosein will utilize the Milestone Comics Collection at the Billy Ireland Library and Cartoon Museum to examine the representations of the pioneering Black Muslim superhero, Wise Son, for her upcoming book on Muslim superheroes.

 

Dr. Jonathan Najarian

Dr. Jonathan Najarian is Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Colgate University. He is the editor of Comics and Modernism: History, Form, and Culture (University Press of Mississippi, 2024), and is currently at work on a book on early American newspaper comics. Some recently published essays include Crazy Quilt, Advertising, and the Chicago Tribune as well as ‘And words were images to him’: Narrative Remediation in Rockwell Kent. Najarian will use his time at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum to support research for his current book project Immediate Fantasies: Comics in Context, 1890-1940. This monograph will explore materiality in newspaper comics in the United States: their leap from the page to billboards and merchandise, the stage and screen, fashion, etcetera—in addition to the cultural imaginary they inhabit.

Congratulations Safiyya and Jonathan!

The application process for the 2025 award will take place in late Fall 2024.

Ongoing support of this award was made possible by a generous gift from the Will and Ann Eisner Family Foundation, which was matched by many additional donors to create an endowment. The endowment provides funding for one award to be given each year. Past awardees include Dr. Margaret Galvan, Dr. Christina M. Knopf, Dan Yezbick, Adrienne Resha, Eike Exner, Kevin Cooley, Dr. Susan Kirtley, Dr. Daniel Worden, Xavier Dapena and Frank Santoro.

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