Rys (2019)

Author

Rys, R.

Year

2019

Title

Reading the Margins: The Politics and Processes of Feminist Comics-Based Research and Pedagogy

University

University of California, Santa Barbara

Discipline (uncoded)

Feminist Studies

Macrostructure

Topic-Based

Proposed Area of Unconventionality
(Tardy, 2016)

Modality

Description and other notes

Includes originial piece of feminist comics-based scholarship. Uses multiple texts and methods, but uses the metaphor of bricolage to bring them together. Outside of the opening chapter, the “remainder of the dissertation is divided into five chapters that raise a series of independent but thematically-linked questions about the field of academic comics studies and the processses and politics of comics-based research and pedagogy, particularly as they intersect with issues of feminism” (p. 23). Pairing comics and feminism might seem counter-intuitive to some. Rys would agree, but adds that its this tension that makes the pairing of the two so generative. Includes references at the end of each chapter. 

(Proposed) Degree of separation or connection between atypical or unconventional component(s) and conventional or written component(s)

Separate. Atypical or unconventional component positioned as separate from the written component or institutional copy of the dissertation

(Proposed) Type of relationship construed between atypical or unconventional component(s) and conventional or written component(s)

Influenced. The atypical or unconventional component (i.e., the policy brief) is construed as an independent, albeit critical part of the written component. The conventional components establish the context, need, and research for the unconventional component (policy brief).

Notes/Reasoning

Research undertaken for the conventional component positioned as contributing to the creative or unusual component, which is the comic-based scholarship. Offers a space for the reader to draw their own interpretations (e.g., see p.1 ).  Wanted to incorporate the multimodal comics transcripts but, in a footnote on page 49, Rys says that they had to be moved to an appendix “due to the sheer bulk” which “points to the enormous labr of creating comprehensive comics transcripts,” an issue Rys contends with in a later chapter.

Discipline 2 (coded)

Feminist Studies

Discipline Grouping (coded)

SS

Source

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