Conversation with Lila Quintero Weaver about “Darkroom”

Tag: comics

A couple of years ago, a student introduced me to Lila Quintero Weaver’s Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White. I read it soon after, and I knew that I wanted to eventually teach it in one of my courses. This semester, in my Multicultural American Literature course, I taught Darkroom, and Weaver graciously spoke with me about her book. Today, I want to … Read More Conversation with Lila Quintero Weaver about “Darkroom”

March 29, 2022 + american history, civil rights, comics, graphic memoir, graphic novels, history, holocaust, jim crow, syllabus

“Jim Crow and the Holocaust” Syllabus

by Matthew Teutsch

The study travel trip that a colleague and I planned for Poland didn’t happen, for various reasons. However, one of the students who registered for the trip asked if I could do a directed study based on the Poland trip. I agreed to lead the directed study this summer, and I’ve been thinking, over the past few weeks, how to expand and make the … Read More “Jim Crow and the Holocaust” Syllabus

March 10, 2022 + art spiegelman, comics, eir-anne edgar, graphic memoir, graphic novels, holocaust, maus

Conversation with Eir-Anne Edgar on “Maus”

by Matthew Teutsch

In a recent post, I shared my conversation with Michael Dando about Art Spiegelman’s Maus. Along with talking about Maus with Dando, I spoke with Eir-Anne Edgar about Maus volume II for my Multicultural American Literature course. Eir-Anne recently spoke about McMinn County’s banning of Maus for an event at West Virginia University. When students read and discussed Maus volume I, they also read … Read More Conversation with Eir-Anne Edgar on “Maus”

March 8, 2022 + art spiegelman, comics, graphic memoir, maus, michael dando

Conversation with Michael Dando on “Maus”

by Matthew Teutsch

Every semester, especially when I teach asynchronous courses, I try to set up conversations with scholars and authors so that students don’t just hear and see me on the screen as they listen to the lecture. As I thought about Art Spiegelman’s Maus, I reached out to Michael Dando. I’ve spoken with Dando before about comics for his classes, specifically Luke Cage, and he … Read More Conversation with Michael Dando on “Maus”

March 1, 2022 + comics, dispacement, graphic novels, japanese american internment, kiku hughes, supreme court, world war ii

Conversation with Kiku Hughes

by Matthew Teutsch

In my Multicultural American Literature course this semester, I am teaching Kiku Hughes’ Displacement alongside John Okada’s No-No Boy and George Takei’s They Called Us Enemy. Each of these texts focuses on the incarceration of thousands of Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War II, and each of these focuses on the intergenerational trauma of incarceration. The generational effects of trauma run through multiple … Read More Conversation with Kiku Hughes

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Conversation with Lila Quintero Weaver about “Darkroom”

Tag: comics