The "Body" of the Text
| "We think with the objects we love; we love the objects we think with." (Sherry Turkle 5) | Abstract |
| Laurie Taylor |
| Eggs, Birds and "an Hour for Lunch": A Vision of the Grotesque Body in Clyde Fans: Book 1 by Seth. | Abstract |
| John Kennett |
| "Time is a Man / Space is a Woman": Narrative + Visual Pleasure = Gender Confusion | Abstract |
| Aaron Kashtan |
Groensteen's Networked Relations
| Memory and Sexuality: An Arthrological Study of Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic | Abstract |
| Adrielle Mitchell |
| The Joy of Plex: Erotic Arthrology, Tromplographic Intercourse, and "Interspecies Romances" in Howard Chaykin's American Flagg | Abstract |
| Daniel Dyezbick |
Women on Top
| Buxom Moebius Strip: The Hyperreal World of Gilbert Hernandez's Fantastic Women | Abstract |
| Sascha Krader, Anita Kinney |
| "Are You Ready?": Renee Montoya and the Question of Lesbian Identity | Abstract |
| Karen Burrows |
| Just One Damned Dildo After Another: Pornographic Space in the Work of Colleen Coover and Molly Kiely | Abstract |
| Lyndsay Brown |
Performance and Positions
| When Fangirls Perform: The Gendered Fan Identity in Online Superhero Comics Fandom. | Abstract |
| Karen Healey |
| She-Rambos in Lipstick: Authorial and Artistic Depictions of Androgyny and Femininity in Comics | Abstract |
| Hannah Dame |
| "The Queering of Haruhi Fujioka: Cross-Dressing, Camp and Commoner Culture in Ouran High School Host Club" | Abstract |
| Tania Darlington |
Race, Sex, Politics
| Reading between the (Panty) Lines: The Body as Ethnographic Text in Jaime Hernandez's Recent Narratives | Abstract |
| Derek Royal |
| Our Minds in the Gutters: Native American Women, Sexuality, and George O'Connor's Graphic Novel Journey into Mohawk Country | Abstract |
| Melissa Mellon |
| Political Sex in South Africa: Depictions of Sexuality in Bitterkomix as a Discursive Weapon against a Patriarchal Oppressor | Abstract |
| Gert Meesters |
The Figure on the Page
| "Gimme Gimme This, Gimme Gimme That": Confused Sexualities and Genres in Cooper and Mayerson's _Horror Hospital Unplugged_ | Abstract |
| James Newlin |
| How to Draw the (DC and) Marvel Way: How Changes in Representation of Female Bodies and Attitudes are Changing "Superheroine Chic" | Abstract |
| Mollie Dezern |
| The Muse or the Viper: Excessive Depictions of the Female in Les Bas- Bleus and Cerebus | Abstract |
| Tof Eklund |
Let's Transgress
| Otherness, Perversion and the Transformed Male Body in Seinen and Shounen Manga | Abstract |
| Katherine Shaeffer |
| The Joker Wears Purple: Gender Transgressive Villains and Trickster Archetypes in Superhero Comics | Abstract |
| Rachel Edidin |
| I for Integrity: Futurity, (Inter)Subjectivities, and Sidekicks in Alan Moore's V for Vendetta and Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns | Abstract |
| Jordana Greenblatt |
University of Florida Comics Studies