The Americanist Seminar is pleased to announce a lecture by critical theorist and comics artist Nick Sousanis, "Reimagining Scholarship through Comics," at 5:00 pm on Tuesday, November 3, in 209 DeBartolo Hall.
Nick Sousanis received his doctorate at Columbia University, where he wrote and drew his dissertation entirely in comics form. Titled Unflattening, it is now a book from Harvard University Press. He has presented on his work and the importance of visual thinking in education at such institutions as Stanford, Princeton, UCLA, and Microsoft Research, along with keynote addresses for the Visitors Studies Association and the International Visual Literacy Association. He has taught courses on comics as powerful communication tools at Columbia, Parsons, and now at the University of Calgary, where he is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in Comics Studies. www.spinweaveandcut.com
Sponsored by the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, College of Arts and Letters, and the Department of English.
The Notre Dame Americanist Seminar is a collective of faculty and graduate students from English and affiliated departments meeting monthly to discuss the most exciting new work in the field. For more information, contact Kate Marshall (kmarshall@nd.edu).