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CFP: El Paso in the Comics II: “The Southwest in the Comics”



Graduate students in all fields of study are invited to submit 200-word abstracts to the second-annual “El Paso in the Comics” conference and event, to be held on the campus of the University of Texas at El Paso, February 23, 2010.



Papers on all aspects of comics scholarship, theory, and pedagogy will be given attention, but those that deal with issues related to artists, creators, characters and/or themes associated with the Ame… Continue

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I leave El Paso Thursday morning and should get into San Antonio around midday. I'm excited to be staying with my colleague and friend Tim Shea and to have an engagement with another good friend later that afternoon.

Friday will be busy for me as I'm literally running from one session to another for most of the day. I've got my session on graphic novels with excellent scholars Doug Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Diane Lapp; then I'm part of a roundtable on 21st century literatures (I'm talking about t… Continue

Graphica in Education: Bringing the Discussion of Graphic Novels Out from Under the Desk


January 31, 2009
Fordham University
Lincoln Center Campus: New York, NY

Hosted by the Graduate School of Education at Fordham University

General Information

The inaugural Graphica in Education conference is designed to open a discussion among educators about the place of graphica in the field of education. It will serve teachers, instructional designers, administrators, librarians, and other interested… Continue

Worth posting again! I'll be at NCTE if anyone would like to talk with me about this position. Please feel free to leave a message on my Ning page if you or someone you know might be interested. A simple search at http://www.utep.edu will get you my e-mail address, and I'm willing to field phone calls as well. Come join an excellent team of English Educators at a university on the move!

Assistant Professor: Children’s Literacy
English Education Program
Department of English
The University of Te… Continue