#comics study

[wwacomics]

When asked if she’s expecting the same kind of enrollment numbers, Christina responds, “I would say no. I hope so, but we’ll see. This is six months long which seems like a bigger commitment. It might scare some people away. But really, it’s not a bad thing it’s longer. It just takes what we crammed into six weeks last time and adds a few more things. It gives people a chance to take their time and enjoy the course. I extended the time frame because of comments made on the ‘exit’ interview from the ‘Gender through Comic Books’ course. A lot of people said they wanted more time on each module, so that’s what I did.”

“Social Issues Through Comic Books” 

BY BRENDA NOISEUX

[wwacomics]

Then you’ll stumble ead over hass into working with a Film Studies professor on your MA research paper about Nelvana of the Northern Lights. You’ll continue to happily wander through a series of conferences, visits to archives (they let you in when you have an institutional affiliation!), a pirate and ninja wedding, and other zany adventures in teaching and research (developing a course centered around Canadian superheroes for high schoolers along the way) until that same oh-so-sage Film Studies professor invites you to join the doctoral program in Canadian Studies at Carleton [still the university in Ottawa, the capital of Canada, not the college in Minnie Soda].

An introduction to comics academia in the form of a letter to my past self