Lecture: Gender in Comics, with Comic Book Artist and Scholar Rachel Marie-Crane Williams
| When |
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 7:30pm to 12:42pm |
|---|---|
| Where |
Burkhardt Building, Ball State University Room 109 |
| What | Education adult oriented, comics, drawing, speakers, writing |
The Department of English is proud to welcome Rachel Marie-Crane Williams to campus as part of the Marilyn K. Cory Lecture Series. She will deliver a public lecture on gender in comics on Wednesday, January 29, at 7:30 in BB 109.
Williams is an artist and teacher at the University of Iowa; her work as a researcher and creative scholar has always been focused on women's issues, community, art, and people who are incarcerated. American alternative/single creator comics and graphic novels have been at the heart of her creative scholarship for the past few years. Her graphic scholarship has been published by the Jane Addams Hull House Museum, the Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education, Southern Cultures, and the International Journal of Comic Art. Her current projects include a graphic novel about the Detroit Race Riots of 1943 to be published by The University of North Carolina Press in partnership with the Duke Center for Documentary studies.