Class, Please Open Your Comics: Essays on Teaching with Graphic Narratives - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786495146 ISBN 13: 9780786495146

Publisher: McFarland & Co, 2015

Synopsis

Comics and sequential art are increasingly in use in college classrooms. Multimodal, multimedia and often collaborative, the graphic narrative format has entered all kinds of subject areas and its potential as a teaching tool is still being realized.

This collection of new essays presents best practices for using comics in various educational settings, beginning with the basics.

Contributors explain the need for teachers to embrace graphic novels. Multimodal composition is demonstrated by the use of comics. Strategies are offered for teachers who have struggled with weak visual literacy skills among students.

Student-generated comics are discussed with several examples. The teaching of postmodern theories and practices through comics is covered. An appendix features assignment sheets so teachers can jump right in with proven exercises.

About this title

About the Author

Matthew L. Miller is an associate professor of English at the University of South Carolina Aiken. He has published articles on multicultural literature and comics in Ethnic Studies Review, The Comics Journal, and the International Journal of Comic Art, and lives in Graniteville, South Carolina.

Edition details

• Publisher: McFarland & Co
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786495146
• ISBN 13: 9780786495146
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284
• Editor: Miller Matthew L.