Teaching Graphic Novels in the English Classroom

1. Introduction
Alissa Burger

Part I. Reading, Writing, and Graphic Narratives

2. Not Just Novels: The Pedagogical Possibilities of the Graphic Narrative
Andrew Bourelle

3.
Understanding Rhetoric, Understanding Genre: A Rhetorical Genre Studies Approached Writing Course
Sara Austin

4. Writing Through Comics
Riki Thompson

Part II. Graphic Novels in the Literature Classroom

5. Teaching the History and Theory of American Comics: 20th-Century Graphic Novels as a Complex Literary Genre
Lauren E. Perry

6. “What Is the Use of a Book … Without Pictures or Conversations?”: Incorporating the Graphic Novel into the University Curriculum
Alison Halsall

7. “Does Doctor Manhattan Think?”: Alan Moore’s The Watchmen and a ‘Great Books’ Curriculum in the Early College Setting
Guy Andre Risko

8. “If He Be Mr. Hyde, We Shall Be Mr. See”: Using Graphic Novels, Comic Books, and the Visual Narrative in the Gothic Literature Classroom
Allison Powell

Part III. Graphic Novels, Empathy, and Social Engagement

9. Teaching March in the Borderlands between Social Justice and Pop Culture
Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw

10. Revising the Rhetoric of “Boat People” through the Interactive Graphic Adaptation of Nam Le’s “The Boat”
Jennifer Phillips

11. Performative Texts and the Pedagogical Theatre: Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home as Compositional Model
William Cordeiro, Season Ellison

Keywords: Education, Literacy, Curriculum Studies, Global/International Culture, Literature and Technology/Media, English