ENG2610 - Spring 2025- Robertson

This course serves as an introduction to the graphic novel and the study of literature within the global context. We will investigate the practice of close reading and analysis by reading a wide variety of graphic novels that all take the medium in unique directions, ranging from Pulp Fiction to Manga to the Gothic. Additionally, students will learn how to give thoughtful responses to a text based on its cultural, political, and economic contexts. Throughout the semester, we will read graphic novels that wrestle with a plethora of different issues and anxieties from the varying perspectives of writers and illustrators who have vastly different lived experiences and identities, all of whom bring new ideas to meanings behind a text and its images.