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A Dialogue on Graphic Narrative
Hillary Chute is a Junior Fellow in literature at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Starting in fall 2010, she will be Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in the department of English at the University of Chicago. Her essays have appeared in
American Periodicals, the
F. Scott Fitzgerald Review,
Literature and Medicine,
MFS: Modern Fiction Studies,
PMLA,
Postmodern Culture,
Twentieth-Century Literature, and
Women's Studies Quarterly. In 2006 she co-edited, with Marianne DeKoven, the
MFS special issue on Graphic Narrative. She is a contributing editor on graphic narrative to the
Heath Anthology of Literature, and Associate Editor of Art Spiegelman's project
MetaMaus (forthcoming in 2011 from Pantheon). Her book
Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics will be out from Columbia University Press in fall 2010.
Jared Gardner is Associate Professor in the Department of English (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University): his main areas of interest are American literature, film, and popular culture. Author of
Master Plots: Race and the Founding of an American Literature, 1787-1845 and articles and reviews on identity, citizenship and media in American literature and culture. He is currently working on studies of early American magazines, myths of origins in popular culture of the 1920s and 30s, and the intersections between film and comics at the turn of the 20th century. Strands from these various ongoing projects are converging into a book tentatively entitled "Serial Citizenship."
