Comics Studies
“Intermedial Storytelling Practices in Comics Journalism: Objectivity Revisited.” Comics Journalism and the Art of Truth: Framing the Facts, edited by Robert Alexander and Leonora Fils. (Routledge, forthcoming 2026).
"Biofiction Comics."Co-editor: Maria Juko. Spec. issue of The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship (forthcoming 2025).
“Des contre-récits dans les récits graphiques de maladie.” Les contre-récits: un nouveau paradigme pour l'étude du récit et de l'agentivité narrative, edited by Sylvie Patron. (Les Presses universitaires du Septentrion, forthcoming 2025).
“Autobiographical Comics: Helen Forney’s Marbles.” Comics: A Companion, edited by Aidan Diamond, Madeline B. Gangnes, and Lauranne Poharec. Peter Lang (forthcoming 2025).
“Doubled Embodiment and the Temporal Experience of Illness in Comics.” Enthymema: International Journal of Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, and Philosophy of Literature, vol. 36, 2024, pp. 190-205. https://doi.org/10.54103/2037-2426/24812.
“Manipulating Time across the Body: Subjectivity in Graphic Illness Narratives.” Spec. issue of CLOSURE: Kieler e-journal für Comicforshung, vol. 10, no. 5, 2024, pp. 10-28. https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure10_5/pedri.
“Listing the Body: Embodied Experience and Identity in Autobiographical Graphic Illness Narratives.” Trauma, Ethics, & Illness in Contemporary Literature and Culture. Ed. by Aimee Pozorski, Shipr Tholia, and Amar Singh. Spec. issue of Humanities, vol. 13, no. 2, 40, 2024, pp. 10-22. https://doi.org/10.3390/h13020040.
“An Ocean of Silence: Vulnerability in Comics about Migration.” Mobility, Agency, Kinship – Representations of Migration Beyond Victimhood, edited by Carolin Gebauer, Lea Espinoza Garrido, and Julia Wewior, Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, pp. 81-105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60754-7_4.
“Picturing a Cubist View of Time (and Space) in Autobiographical Comics.” Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, vol. 46, no. 4, 2023, pp. 735-751. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bio.2023.a959019.
"The Author as a Work of Art: Graphic Memoir, Style, and Authorial Agents." Reading the Contemporary Author: Narrative, Authority, Fictionality, edited by Alison Gibbons and Elizabeth King. University of Nebraska Press, 2023, pp. 111-130. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.9192214.
“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. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004468337_023.
"Narrator"; "Photography"; “Referent”; "Sign"; "Voice." Key Terms in Comics Scholarship, edited by Simon Grennan, Erin la Cour and Rik Spanjers. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
"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. https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2020.1773885.
“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. https://tropics.univ-reunion.fr/986.
“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.
“Not to Be Forgotten.” Review of Once Upon a Time Machine: Greek Gods and Legends, edited by Andrew Carl and Chris Stevens.” Los Angeles Review of Books, 8 September 2018. 2036 words. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/not-to-be-forgotten/.
“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. https://doi.org/10.1386/stic.9.2.297_1.
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. https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2017.1355832.
“Not Playing Around: Games in Graphic Illness Narratives.” Co-author: Helene Staveley. Literature and Medicine, vol. 36, no.1, Spring 2018; pp. 230-256. https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2018.0010.
“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. https://imagetextjournal.com/mixing-visual-media-in-comics/
“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. https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315643625-7.
“What’s the Matter of Seeing in Graphic Memoir?” Graphic Representation: Contemporary Graphic Narrative, edited by Nicole Stamant, special issue of South Central Review, vol. 32, no.3, Fall 2015, pp. 8-29. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44016903.
“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. https://doi.org/10.7202/1027434ar.
"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. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110427660-006.
- 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. https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-4438-5438-2.
“Focalization in Graphic Narrative.” Co-author: Dr. Silke Horstkotte. Narrative, vol. 19, no. 3, October 2011, pp. 330-357. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41289308.
- Winner of the International Society for the Study of Narrative 2012 prize for best essay in Narrative