Hillary Chute is a leading expert on comics whose scholarship aims to provide understanding of comics’ merged visual/graphic language as a literary form. A professor of English and art, media, and design at Northeastern, Chute was a visiting professor in English at Harvard for the Spring 2016 term. She is the author of Outside the Box: Interviews with Contemporary Cartoonists and Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics and associate editor of Art Spiegelman’s MetaMaus. Founder of the Modern Language Association’s Discussion Group on Comics and Graphic Narratives, she organized the 2012 Comics: Philosophy and Practice conference at the University of Chicago. Chute’s writing has appeared in publications including American Periodicals, Mfs: Modern Fiction Studies, PMLA, Twentieth-Century Literature, and WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly. Her latest work, Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form, explores comics as a narrative medium with the potential to engage with history, document the disasters of war, and bear witness to trauma.
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