Off to the American Education Research Association (AERA) conference in Vancouver today. I’ll be talking my dissertation and comics with educators – along the lines of the presentation I did at HASTAC in December. I’m posting here, the final version of the piece, the Shape of Our Thoughts, as I draw on it heavily for…
DetailsMicrosoft’s Anthony Salcito’s Daily Edventures has done a feature profile on me and my dissertation in comic form as part of their daily look at educators around the world. They’ve been featuring some amazing educators and I’m humbled to be included among them. The interview is here. (Thanks to Bridget for her kind words and…
DetailsBrief interview with me regarding my dissertation, now up on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s site. Curiously released on April 1, but thankfully there’s no “Pow!” in the title… Thanks to interviewer Nick DeSantis for his kind words and making this happen. For more info, check out Maureen Bakis’s lengthy interview here and comic-like version of my HASTAC talk from December. –…
DetailsSince the minor twitter outbreak stemming from Maureen Bakis’s original article fueled by Cathy Davidson’s subsequent post, (a huge thank you to both!) numerous folks have posted links to the interviews or other excerpts from my work. Very cool – grateful to all for the support. Occasionally though some of the reposts have been misconstrued…
DetailsA while back, Maureen Bakis, author of the Graphic Novel Classroom, visited my class at TC, and followed up with an e-interview of me. It’s just now published on Diamond Bookshelf’s site here. In the work, I share on my thoughts on comics and education, resources for teachers, and what i’m up to with a…
DetailsA brief interview on my work in comics and creativity at Teachers College in the school’s monthly publication. Check it out here. Thanks to Siddhartha Mitter for the writeup. For more on what i’m up to on the dissertation – check out this pdf of a December talk i gave. More new comics to come……
DetailsA lengthy stint of jury duty has delayed some updates here – but a few things. First up, check out this interview on graphic novel reporter with the super cool Maureen Bakis – teacher and author of the Graphic Novel Classroom, who visited my class back in the fall. Maureen was a great guest and…
DetailsHappy New Year! Fall of 2012 saw few updates to this site – but not because i wasn’t making new comics. Rather the opposite, I was immersed in two big projects that i’ll post more on soon, as well as lots of thinking on comics through the course I developed and taught this fall at…
DetailsAs with the recent “The Importance of Seeing Double,” “New Maps” was created for the Association of Integrative Studies’ newsletter for their October edition. They should be seen as companion pieces, and likely I’ll find a way to integrate(!) them into a single piece as part of my dissertation. Wanna know more about the study…
DetailsThis piece was created for the Association of Integrative Studies’ newsletter Integrative Pathways March 2011 edition. It’s also being reprinted in a textbook on integrative studies due out soon. I’ve got a related piece in the forthcoming edition of AIS’s newsletter this fall. I’ll post it after it appears in print. Interested in interdisciplinary studies?…
DetailsThanks to an invite from Gan Golan (co-creator of Good Night Bush), my piece about the ridiculousness of red states and blue states made during the run-up to the 2008 presidential election is now on view as part of the Po Boy Art Gallery’s “The Comic Show/People’s Art of Portland” in Portland, Oregon. (Info here: http://poboyart.com/). I…
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