San Diego, California
“One For the Ages: The ‘Ages’ of Superhero Comics”
A. David Lewis, Georgetown University
Peter M. Coogan, Fontbonne College
Randy Duncan, Henderson State University
“Introduction to Visual Language”
Neil Cohn
“Eisner, Harvey, and McCloud Ten Years Later: The Dialogue Continues”
Will Eisner (Graphic Storytelling)
Robert C. Harvey (The Art of the Comic Book)
Scott McCloud (Understanding Comics)
“Playing in the Dark Knight: American Africanism and
Imagining the American Superhero”
Aldo J. Regalado, University of Miami Department of History
“The Phantom: Colonizing the Comics”
Jason Cheeseman-Meyer, independent scholar and comics creator
“Invisible Woman: The Female Role and Feminist Revolution made Visible”
Penny Shreve, Orange Coast College
“The Opposite of all Earthly Things: Bizarro, Tradition, and the Aesthetics
of Inversion”
Davin Heckman, Bowling Green State University
“Birds of a Feather: Superhero Fashion, Teenage Sidekicks, and the Transcendence of Class”
Matthew Wolf-Meyer, Bowling Green State University
“Comic, Classrooms, and Conflict”
Jason Tondro, University of California, Riverside
“Engaging the Audience: Group Therapy or Platform for Ideology”
Anita K. McDaniel, Augusta State University
“Recent Russian Comics for the Nouveaux Riches”
Jose Alaniz, University of California, Berkeley
“You can't read them, they're for boys!: British Girls, American Superhero Comics and Identity”
Mel Gibson, University of Sunderland, UK
“Teaching Comics as Literature: Obstacles and Opportunities”
Charles Hatfield, California State University, Northridge
Ana Merino, Appalachian State University
Ernesto Priego, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Rocco Versaci, Palomar College
Will Eisner
Ernesto Priego, Philological Research Institute, National Autonomous University of Mexico
“The Space of Dreams as a Poetics of the Subconscious: ‘The Extended Dream of Mr. D’”
Ana Merino, Appalachian State University
“Of Droids and the Man I Sing: Luke Skywalker as the
Modern Aeneas”
Thomas F. Schilz, San Diego Miramar College