Presentations and Authors


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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