BOARD MEMBERS
Lisa DeTora
Hofstra University
Lisa DeTora, the inaugural Secretary of the research area, is Associate Professor of Writing Studies and Rhetoric and Director of STEM Writing at Hofstra University and also serves as guest faculty at the Zucker School of Medicine. Lisa uses comics and graphic narratives in teaching various courses including medical humanities, health communication and scientific writing. Lisa has published in various journals including Technical Communication Quarterly , Rhetoric of Health and Medicine , and Journal of Technical Writing and Communication , and contributed to several volumes on technical communication theory, pedagogy, gendered health communication and mental health rhetoric research. Her publishing in graphic narrative research includes three co-edited volumes, the most recent Graphic Embodiments (Leuven 2021). Book chapters have also appeared in various volumes.
“Quantum physics and comics: two great fields that work great together”
A recent paper details the connections between quantum physics and comic books. See: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110642056-012/html?lang=en
C-S Publications
DeTora L, Cressman J, eds. Graphic Embodiments: Perspectives on Health and Embodiment in Graphic Narratives. Leuven: University of Leuven Press, 2021.
Piepoli A, DeTora L, Rossi U, eds. “[Part] 1. Unsettled Narratives: Graphic Novel and Comics Studies in the Twenty-First Century” In The Many Languages of Comparative Literature /La littérature comparée: multiples langues, multiples langages /Die vielen Sprachen der Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft: Collected Papers of the 21st Congress of the ICLA. Ed. Achim Hölter. Volume 5: Dialogues between Media. Ed. Paul Ferstel. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021, 13-178. (Twelve essays.)
DeTora L. “The fragmented gaze and non-Newtonian embodiment in scientific graphic biographies.” Graphic Embodiments: Perspectives on Health and Embodiment in Graphic Narratives. Ed. Lisa DeTora and Jodi Cressman. Leuven: University of Leuven Press, 2021: 89-102.
DeTora L. “Empirical Looking: Situating the multiple elements of Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout (2010) as vehicles for articulating a place for women in science.” In The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies. Ed. Frederick Aldama. New York: Routledge, 2020: 240-254.
Work in progress: Volume on visual cultures of embodiment (Palgrave)
Into C-S
In 2023:
- Participated in a Rhetoric Society of America program in “Graphic Rhetoric of Health and Medicine” in May
- Co-chairing and attending our Research Committee's panel in Dresden.
ICLA Research Commitee on Comics Studies and Graphic Narrative (2024)
