Resisting Logocentrism: Exploring Comics Technologies Beyond Reading – IGNCC 2024

I am looking forward to returning, many years later, to my beloved UEA Norwich to attend this year's International Graphic Novels and Comics Conference, with the theme of 'Comics & Technologies'.

Monstrous Women in Comics, UK Feminist Cartoons, Comics and Modernism | New Book Reviews by Franco, Raina, Connerty

Sharing three new book reviews published in The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship today.

New Postgraduate Taught Degree: Data, Policy and Society MSc

Honoured to be a co-director of this programme along Elinor Carmi. This new MSc will provide students with the practical research skills and knowledge to critically understand and ethically assess how data is used across a multitude of industries.

Ride That Ridm: A New Session on Mixcloud, or, A Note On Vinyl-only Sets as Erfahrung

A note on the personal significance of collecting and listening to records, comparing it to meditation. I use Walter Benjamin's concept of "erfahrung" to argue for the unique experience afforded by physical music formats. Finally, I share a mix of vinyl records.