Comics Studies

“Intericonicity in Documentary Comics.” Reproducing Images and Texts / La reproduction des images et des textes, edited by Kristy Bell and Philippe Kaenel. Brill, 2022, pp. 347-359.

"Sexuality and Mental Illness in Comics: Notes towards an Introduction.” Co-author Irene Velentzas. Sexuality and Mental Illness in Comics. Eds. Nancy Pedri and Irene Velentzas. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, vol. 11, no. 4, 2020; pp. 357-372.

“Timeless Stories of Migration: The Arrival and American Born Chinese.” Trajectories: Travel, Migration and Exile in Literature. Ecritures de la migration et de l’exil. Ed. Corinne Duboin. Spec. issue of TrOPICS, no. 5, 2019, pp. 153-164.

The Spiral Cage by Al Davison.” Disability Experiences: Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Other Personal Narratives. Eds. Thomas G. Couser and Susannah B. Mintz. Macmillan Reference USA, 2019; pp. 715-718.

“Telling It Authentically: Documents in Graphic Illness Memoirs.” Diegesis, Interdisciplinary E-Journal for Narrative Research / Interdisziplinäres E-Journal für Erzählforschung, vol. 8, no. 1, 2019; pp. 48-66.
https://www.diegesis.uni-wuppertal.de/index.php/diegesis/article/view/333/539

“Breaking into and out of Panels: Formal Expressions of Subjectivity in Graphic Memoir.” Studies in Comics, vol. 9, no. 2, December 2018; pp. 297-334.

Foreword. Freaked and Othered Bodies. Eds. Aidan Diamond and Lauranne Poharec. Special issue of Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, vol. 8, No. 5, 2018; p. 401.

“Not Playing Around: Games in Graphic Illness Narratives.” Co-author: Helene Staveley. Literature and Medicine, vol. 36, no.1, Spring 2018; pp. 230-256.

“Introduction: Mixing Visual Media in Comics.” Mixing Visual Media in Comics. Ed. Nancy Pedri. Special issue of ImageText: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies, vol. 9, no. 2, 2017; 8 pp. www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/archives/v9_2/introduction/introduction/shtml

“The Body at Work: Subjectivity in Graphic Memoir.” Co-author: Dr. Silke Horstkotte. Representations of Subjectivity Across Media. Eds. Maike Reinerth and Jan-Noël Thon, Routledge, 2016; pp. 77-91.

“What’s the Matter of Seeing in Graphic Memoir?” Special issue on graphic narrative South Central Review 32.3 (Summer 2015); pp. 8-29.

“Re-visualizing the Map in Guy Delisle’s Pyongyang.” Le dispositive texte / image. Ed. Julie LeBlanc. Spec. issue of Arborescence: Revue d’études françaises 4 (November 2014); pp. 99-114. http://www.erudit.org/revue/arbo/2014/v/n4/1027434ar.pdf

"Graphic Memoir: Neither Fact Nor Fiction.” From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels: Contributions to the Theory and History of Graphic Narrative. Eds. Daniel Stein and Jan-Noël Thon. Narratologia Series. DeGruyter, 2013; pp. 127-153.

  • Honorable mention, International Society for the Study of Narrative Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Prize for the book that makes the most significantcontribution to the study of narrative.

“Rendering the Familiar Unfamiliar: Art Spiegelman's Maus." Picturing the Language of Images. Eds. Nancy Pedri and Laurence Petit. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013; pp. 455-470.

"Focalization in Graphic Narrative." (with Silke Horstkotte) Narrative 19.3 (October 2011): 330-357.

  • winner of the International Society for the Study of Narrative 2012 prize for best essay in Narrative