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Introduction / Stephen E. Tabachnick -- Part I. Theoretical and aesthetic issues : Defining comics in the classroom; or, The pros and cons of unfixability / Charles Hatfield -- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Laocoön and the lessons of comics / Brian Tucker -- Reading time in graphic narrative / Eric S. Rabkin -- Mise-en-page: a vocabulary for page layouts / Jesse Cohn -- The narrative intersection of image and text: teaching panel frames in comics / Elizabeth Rosen -- Part II. Social issues : Is there an African American graphic novel? / Michael A. Chaney -- Teaching Maus to a Holocaust class / Terry Barr -- Too weenie to deal with all of this "girl stuff": women, comics, and the classroom / Anne N. Thalheimer -- The graphic novel as a choice of weapons / Tammy Horn -- Teaching Watchmen in the wake of 9/11 / James Bucky Carter -- Part III. Individual creators : Chris Ware's postmodern pictographic experiments / Anthony D. Baker -- Teaching Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli's graphic novel adaptation of Paul Auster's City of glass / Martha Kuhlman -- The urban studies of Ben Katchor / Mark Feldman -- The comics as outsider's text: Teaching R. Crumb and underground comix / Edward Brunner -- Revisionist superhero graphic novels: teaching Alan Moore's Watchmen and Frank Miller's Dark knight books / Darren Harris-Fain -- Memory's architecture: American studies and the graphic novels of Art Spiegelman / Dana A. Heller -- Autobifictionalography: making do in Lynda Barry's One hundred demons / Nathalie op de Beeck -- Snow White in the city: teaching fables, nursery rhymes, and revisions in graphic novels / Laurie N. Taylor -- Graphic fictions on graphic subjects: teaching the illustrated medical narrative / Frank L. Cioffi -- The boundaries of genre: translating Shakespeare in Antony Johnston and Brett Weldele's Julius / J. Caitlin Finlayson -- Steam Punk and the visualization of the Victorian: teaching Alan Moore's The league of extraordinary gentlemen and From hell / Christine Ferguson -- Visualizing the classics: Frank Miller's 300 in a world literature course / Paul D. Streufert -- Part IV. Courses and contexts : Seven ways I don't teach comics / Joseph Witek -- Teaching the graphic travel narrative / M.G. Aune -- Violent encounters: graphic novels and film in the classroom John G. Nichols -- Hero and Holocaust: graphic novels in the undergraduate history classroom / Bryan E. Vizzini -- It's a word! It's a picture! It's comics! Interdisciplinary approaches to teaching comics / Alison Mandaville and J.P. Avila -- Comics and the canon: graphic novels, visual narrative, and art history / Claudia Goldstein -- Teaching manga: considerations and class exercises / Rachael Hutchinson -- The cultural dimensions of the Hispanic world seen through its graphic novels / Ana Merino, translated by Derek Petrey and Elizabeth Polli -- A cultural approach to nonnarrative graphic novels: a case study from Flanders / Jan Baetens -- Interdisciplinary meets cross-cultural: teaching anime and manga on a science and technology campus / Pamela Gossin -- Teaching Franco-Belgian Bande dessinée / Michael D. Picone -- Part V. Resources : Supporting the teaching of the graphic novel: the role of the academic library / Chris Matz -- A selected bibliography of the graphic novel and sequential art

Graphic novels are now appearing in a great variety of courses: composition, literature, drama, popular culture, travel, art, translation. The thirty-four essays in this volume explore issues that the new art form has posed for teachers at the university level.--From publisher description