After first revisiting theories of page layout in order to diagram how spatial orientation has been studied, the chapter provides close readings of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, Leila Abdelrazaq’s Baddawi, and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas’s Red: A Haida Manga. Focusing on the diversity of modes by which these comics both serve as and utilize spatial navigation according... Read more
Kate Kelp-Stebbins

Publications
Examining controversies surrounding French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo, and Belgian series The Adventures of Tintin, as well as specific works such as Magdy El-Shafee’s Metro and Mazen Kerbaj’s Samandal piece “Suspended Time Vol. 1: The Family Tree,” the chapter analyzes readerly orientations that are diagrammed and contested through engagements with graphic narratives.
This article examines the critical reception of works by comic artists Zeina Abirached and Marjane Satrapi, and specifically articulations of likeness and contrast between them. Surveying the frequent comparisons of Abirached's A Game for Swallows (2007, 2012) to Satrapi's Persepolis (2000–2004) provides a methodological framework by which to reconsider the cultural and... Read more
- Kelp-Stebbins, Kate. "Undead in Suburbia" Coauthored with Leila Estes. The Laughing Dead. Rowman and Littlefield. 2016.
- Kelp-Stebbins, Kate. “Spectres of Media: Jacques Tardi’s Graphic Reanimation of It Was the War of the Trenches”. The Horrors of War. 2015.
- Kelp-Stebbins, Kate. “The Medium is the Masses: Embodied Amplification, Urban Occupation” Co-authored with Allison Schifani. Media Fields. 2015.
- Kelp-Stebbins, Kate. “Hybrid Heroes and Graphic Posthumanity: Comics as a Media Technology for Critical Posthumanism”. Studies in Comics. Intellect Books. 2012.
Courses
Term | CRN | Course | Section Title | Fulfills | Syllabus |
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Spring 2021 | 32044 | ENG 280 | Introduction to Comic Studies | A & L, English Major, Lower-Division Elective, English Minor, Comics Studies Minor |
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Spring 2021 | 32055 | ENG 385 | Graphic Narratives and Cultural Theory | A & L, English Major, D-Theory/Rhetoric, E-Media/Folklore/Culture, English Minor, Comics Studies Minor |
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Winter 2021 | 22056 | ENG 280 | Introduction to Comic Studies | A & L, English Major, Lower-Division Elective, English Minor, Comics Studies Minor |
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Winter 2021 | 22075 | ENG 399 | Special Studies: Comics Journalism | English Major, C-Literature 1789-Present, E-Media/Folklore/Culture, English Minor, Comics Studies Minor |
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Fall 2020 | 16909 | ENG 607 | Seminar: Nonfiction Comics | Graduate Studies |
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