Kate Kelp-Stebbins

Publications

"Reading Spaces: The Politics of Page Layout"

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

“Comics as Orientation Devices”

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.

“Global Comics: Two Women’s Texts and a Critique of Cultural Imperialism”

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
Spring 2021	32044	ENG 280	Introduction to Comic Studies	A & L, English Major, Lower-Division Elective, English Minor, Comics Studies Minor	Download (267.73 KB)
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	Download (730 KB)
Winter 2021	22056	ENG 280	Introduction to Comic Studies	A & L, English Major, Lower-Division Elective, English Minor, Comics Studies Minor	Download (265.78 KB)
Winter 2021	22075	ENG 399	Special Studies: Comics Journalism	English Major, C-Literature 1789-Present, E-Media/Folklore/Culture, English Minor, Comics Studies Minor	Download (364.22 KB)
Fall 2020	16909	ENG 607	Seminar: Nonfiction Comics	Graduate Studies	Download (1.44 MB)