Teaching Graphic Novels in the English Classroom: Pedagogical Possibilities of Multimodal Literacy Engagement

1. Introduction2. Not Just Novels: The Pedagogical Possibilities of the Graphic Narrative3. Understanding Rhetoric, Understanding Genre: A Rhetorical Genre Studies Approached Writing Course 4. Writing Through Comics5. Teaching the History and Theory of American Comics: 20th Century Graphic Novels as a Complex Literary Genre6. "What is the use of a book ... without pictures of conversations?" Incorporating the Graphic Novel into the University Curriculum7. "Does Doctor Manhattan Think?" Alan Moore's The Watchmen and 'Great Books' Curriculum in the Early College Setting8. "If He Be Mr. Hyde, We Shall Be Mr. See" Using Graphic Novels, Comic Books, and the Visual Narrative in the Gothic Literature Classroom9. Teaching March in the Borderlands Between Social Justice and Pop Culture10. Revising the Rhetoric of 'Boat People' Through the Interactive Graphic Adaptation of Nam Le's "The Boat" 11. Performative Pedagogies and Performative Texts: Alison Bechdel's Fun Home as Compositional Model


Author: Alissa Burger
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 05/18/2018
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.43d
ISBN13: 9783319875620
ISBN10: 3319875620
BISAC Categories:
- Education | Teaching | Subjects | Reading & Phonics
- Education | Curricula
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social

About the Author

Alissa Burger is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum at Culver-Stockton College, USA. She teaches courses in research, writing, and literature, including a single-author seminar on Stephen King. She is the author of Teaching Stephen King: Horror, The Supernatural, and New Approaches to Literature.

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