MLA 2024: Guaranteed Session CFP: The Biopolitics of Comics (Deadline: 3/15/23)
The Forum for Comics and Graphic Narratives seeks proposals for a guaranteed special session at the Modern Language Association annual conference to take place in Philadelphia from January 4-7, 2024. During the pandemic, a number of comics appeared that documented individual and collective experiences of COVID while also critiquing the governmental, economic, and social structures that determined such things as access to care and the regulation of bodies. Kendra Boileau and Rich Johnson’s Covid Chronicles: A Comics Anthology (2021) and Thi Bui and Sarah Mirk’s In/Vulnerable: Inequity in the Time of Pandemic (2020) captured examples of such work, and showed how comics could not onlyRead More →