C-S Publications

Book

Growing Up Graphic: The Comics of Children in Crisis. In production with Ohio State University Press (estimated publication date: October 2023). 

Edited Scholarly Collection

The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader: Critical Openings, Future Directions. A scholarly anthology, co-edited with Associate Professor Jonathan Warren, York University. UP of Mississippi, 2022. (355 pp., including scholarly index; 55 figures).

Winner of the 2023 Eisner Award for Best Scholarly / Academic Work.

Chapters in Edited Collections

“Intersectionalities in Canadian LGBTQ+ Comics.” The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader. Eds. Halsall and Warren. UP of Mississippi, 2022, 213—30.

“Gord Downie and Jeff Lemire’s Graphic Narrative Secret Path: Analysis of a Transmedia Adaptation.” Cultural and Creative Industries of Childhood and Youth. Eds. Valérie-Inés De La Ville, Gilles Brougère, and Pascale Garnier. Peter Lang Publishing, 2021, 273—89.

“Graphic Experiences of Immigration, Migration, and Diaspora: Shaun Tan’s The Arrival and Matt Huynh’s Interactive Graphic Adaptation of Nam Le’s ‘The Boat.’” Graphic Embodiments: Graphic Perspectives on Health and Embodiment. Eds. Lisa DeTora and Jodi Cressman. U Leuven Press, 2021, 61—73. 

“‘What is the use of a book… without pictures or conversations?’: Incorporating the Graphic Novel into the University Curriculum.” Teaching Graphic Novels in the English Classroom: Pedagogical Possibilities of Multimodal Literacy Engagement. Ed. Alissa Burger. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 87—101. 

“Bigger Longer & Uncut: South Park and the Carnivalesque.” Taking South Park Seriously. Ed. Jeffrey Weinstock. State University of New York Press, 2008, 23—37. 

Articles in Refereed Journals 

“Nobody’s Home: Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book and Its Visual Adaptations.” Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society 1.3 (Fall 2017), 334—53.

“‘A Parade of Curiosities’: Alan Moore’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Lost Girls as Neo-Victorian Pastiches.” The Journal of Popular Culture 48.2 (2015): 253—69. 

Articles in Refereed Conference Proceedings

“Visualizing the Gothic in Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book and Its Illustrated Adaptations.” Dialogues between Media, edited by Paul Ferstl. De Gruyter, 2021, pp. 123—142.

In Process

Chapter Manuscripts for Scholarly Anthologies

“Queer graphic novels: a paradigm of paradox.” The Cambridge Companion to the American Graphic Novel. Eds. Hugo Frey, Jan Baetens, Fabrice Leroy. Cambridge University Press, 2023, pp. 256—71. [In process, 2023.]

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