Description: Lately, perhaps following the success of the culturally and critically renowned Maus and Persepolis, the comics scene has seen a rise of intimate graphic memoirs that deal with diaspora, war, disability, and queerness. This panel is dedicated to graphic narratives that address such marginalized identities. What makes graphic memoirs and the image-textual form conducive to articulating complex liminal positions of their subjects?

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Speakers

Tesla Cariani, Emory U

Martha Greene Eads, Eastern Mennonite U

Chase Gregory, Bucknell U

Susan Jacobowitz, Queensborough Community C, City U of New York

Mike Lehman, Emory U

Janene G. B. Lewis, U of Mary Hardin-Baylor

Sayanti Mondal, Illinois State U

Esra Mirze Santesso, U of Georgia

Helis Sikk, U of South Florida, Tampa

Kay Sohini Kumar, Stony Brook U, State U of New York