Comics as Archives: Art Spiegelman's 'Maus' and Documentary Form

Dr. Hillary Chute is Distinguished Professor of English and Art + Design at Northeastern University

Hillary Chute’s work focuses on comics and graphic novels; contemporary fiction; visual studies; American literature; gender and sexuality studies; literature and the arts; critical theory; media studies. She is the author of Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics (Columbia University Press, 2010), Outside the Box: Interviews with Contemporary Cartoonists (University of Chicago Press, 2014); and Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form, which was published by Harvard University Press in January 2016. She is also associate editor of Art Spiegelman’s MetaMaus(Pantheon, 2011), which won a National Jewish Book Award, among other prizes. She recently co-edited the Critical Inquiryspecial issue “Comics & Media” (University of Chicago Press, 2014), and in 2006 she co-edited the MFS: Modern Fiction Studies special issue “Graphic Narrative,” the first issue of a journal in the field of literature devoted to analyzing comics. She has written for publications including Artforum, Bookforum, The Believer, and Poetry. She was associate professor of English, and an associate faculty member in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago before joining the Northeastern faculty. Chute serves on the Executive Committee of Northeastern’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. She is a comics and graphic novels columnist for the The New York Times Book Review. (From the Northeastern University website)

Funded by the Department of English, the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, the Department of Romance Languages, and the Jewish Studies Program. This event is free and open to the public.