Pop Culture: Comics, TV, Film

OSU Distinguished Professor Brian McHale Talks Postmodern Narrative & Narrative Theory. Discussion includes his entrance into and journey with postmodern narratives, beginning with Thomas Pynchon; his scholarly pull toward the long poem; Poetics Today

OSU Professor Angus Fletcher Talks: Storytelling Science. Discussion includes about how we can learn about our narrative hardwiring and how to storytelling techniques like Hamlet's soliloquy or reverse engineered PIxar film Up! and how these can and do make stories exciting and new through reverse engineering.

Professor Jorge Santos Talks About his Book Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement. Discussion includes: John Lewis and Nate Powell's March, Lila Quintero Weaver's Darkroom, Ho Che Anderson's King, Daniel Parada's Zotz, and New X-Men, Dawn of X. So much insight!

Professor Latinx with Dr. Pramod Nayar on The Indian Graphic Novel. Discussion includes growing up with superhero comics, nonfiction graphic novels, comics about immigration, postcolonial comics, social realism in Indian graphic novels; caste and subaltern oppression; English comics in India creating reading communities; visual and verbal multimodal literacy; autobiography by "nobodies"; cosplay i...

Professor Latinx with Dr. Nicola Streeten who shares her Journey as Curator & Scholar of Women Cartoonists & Graphic Novelists as well as Creator of the Groundbreaking and Award Winning Graphic Memoir: Billy, Me & You. Includes discussion of her new book, UK Feminist Cartoons and Comics; the importance of concepts of feminist comics, including the power of humor and laughter to open spaces and eye...

Please Join Professor Michael Chaney as he shares his personal journey with comics and awareness as a kid growing up in Ohio of his mixed race heritage; his comics scholarship on autobiography and self-representation by those traditionally not represented; his journey to become a "critical engager with optic world" as well as a visual storyteller and artist! Discussion also includes Animality in c...

Lisa DeTora takes us on a journey through the significance of gender, health, humanities, and graphic medicine; discussion includes European Comics, Grant Morrison, Multiverse as well as comics such as Radioactive, Marbles, Stitches, Imagine Wanting Only This, Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout.

Professor James Donahue Talks: Comics, Indigenous Studies, & Animal Studies. Includes discussion of Brian K. Vaughn's Ex Machina, Arigon Starr's Super Indian, Missing And Murdered Indigenous Women And Girls Movement. . .

Professor Latinx with Jean Lee Cole on Comics Strips, Comics History, & US Sociopolitical Histories

Professor Deborah Whaley talks about her work on Race, Gender, Afrogoth, & Comics; discussion includes her book Black Women in Sequence, TV and film adaptations, Catwoman, The Butterfly, webcomics and transnational futurisms, curating of exhibits and creating of own art.

Shiamin Kwa by Latinx Pop Lab

Professor Latinx speaks with Maaheen Ahmed of Ghent University About Comics Forms, Monsters, and Kids in Comics

Samantha Langsdale Talks Race, Gender, Sexuality and the Monstrous in Comics. Comics discussed include Moon Girl, Captain Marvel, Monstress, America, Dark Phoenix, Ironheart, They Called Us Enemy. . .

Professor Bart Beaty on Materiality of Comic Book Histories and Empirical Comics Studies

Professor Isabel Molina-Guzmán on Latinx Identities in Pop Culture by Latinx Pop Lab

Professor Jeffrey Brown on Race and Gender in Superhero Comics

Professors Ilan Stavans & Christopher González On Latinx Pop Culture

Professor William Nericcio On Decolonizing Mainstream Pop Culture Imaginaries

Professors Cristina Herrera and Trevor Boffone Talk About Latinx YA Lit & Pop Culture

Andréa Gilroy Comics Scholar and Comics Book Store Owner on Why Comics Matter

Lindsey Stirek Unzips her Brain on Manga

ProfessorLatinx & 3 PhDs Discuss Netflix Gentefied: "Derivative Kahlo Kitsch" per Hollywood Reporter; Or Complex Latinidad

Irma Zamora joins ProfessorLatinX to talk about the film Knives Out and its radical shifting of representations of Latinx subjects and its commentary and critique of the 1% hysteria around wealth redistribution. . .and so much more!

Benoît Crucifix & Sylvain Lesage Put Finger on Pulse of French and Belgian Comics by Latinx Pop Lab

Janine Utell On Alison Bechdel and Significance of LGBTQ & Nonbinary Comics by Latinx Pop Lab