Hillary Chute, the most prominent scholar of Art Spiegelman and a leading light in comics studies in the US will be at UGA for a lecture on the role of comics as archive and documentary. The lecture is Thursday, February 7, 2019, at 4:30 PM at Park Hall on North Campus [host contact: Prof. Christopner Pizzino, English]

Chute is the author of Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics (Columbia University Press, 2010), Outside the Box: Interviews with Contemporary Cartoonists (University of Chicago Press, 2014); and Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form (Harvard, 2016). She is associate editor of Art Spiegelman’s MetaMaus (Pantheon, 2011), and co-editor of the Critical Inquiry special issue “Comics & Media” (University of Chicago Press, 2014). In 2006 she co-edited the MFS: Modern Fiction Studies special issue “Graphic Narrative,” the first issue of a journal in the field of literature devoted to analyzing comics.

Hillary Chute is Distinguished Professor of English and Art + Design at Northeastern University. Her visit is sponsored by the Willson Center, the department of English, the department of Romance languages, and the Program in Jewish Studies.