A Course on Comic Books, Culture, and Diversity

This entry is part of a series about 20 Years of African American Literary Studies at SIUE.

Each semester since fall 2018, I’ve co-taught an Interdisciplinary Studies (IS) course on comic books, culture, and diversity with Stephyn Phillips. We cover Wonder Woman, Black Panther, Sandman, Noble, The Killing Joke, Storm, and several other titles. 

Our discussions concentrate on heroes, villains, diversity, writing, imagery, race and representation, creativity, cultural identities, television, and film, and all kinds of topics related to pop culture.