Schedule for 14th UF Annual Conference on Comics and Graphics Novels: Comics Remixed—Adaptation and Graphic Narrative
*Panels on Friday in Smathers Library 100; keynote in Ustler Atrium. All events on Saturday and Sunday in Ustler Atrium
All events are free and open to the public.
Friday, April 7
9:00 – 9:30 am: Registration and Breakfast
9:30 – 9:45 am: Opening Remarks
9:45 – 11:15 am: Remembrance Remixed
- Moderator: Anastasia Kozak, University of Florida
- How Korean Graphic Novels Remember History
Alyssa Kim, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies - The Thrill of Creation: A Drifting Life, Tatsumi, and Adaptation as Transformation
Spencer Chalifour, University of Florida - Migrants and Their Liminality in The Arrival
Othelia Jumapao, University of Florida
11:15 – 11:30 am: Break
11:30 am – 1:00 pm: Imaging Blackness
- Moderator: Rachel Hartnett, University of Florida
- ‘Am I My Brother’s Keeper?’ Netflix’s Luke Cage and Abrahamic Brotherhood
Adrienne Resha, University of Virginia - Swapping Heels for Capes: The Super Heroine Alternative to Racebent Love-Interests
Chamara Moore, University of Notre Dame - Rap & Comics: The Last Emperor’s Secret Wars
Darnel Degand, Teachers College Columbia University
1:00 – 2:15 pm: Lunch (not provided)
2:15 – 3:45 pm: Motion Pictured
- Moderator: Kevin Cooley, University of Florida
- From Mainstream to Margins, from Margins to Mainstream Cinematic Universes and the Transformation of the American Superhero Comic Books
Zsófia Bacsadi, Trinity College - Scott Pilgrim vs. The Adaptation: Translating Comics Language into Film
Erin Keepers, University of Dundee - Derailing the System: Reading Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer as Ambicritical Dystopia
Shelby Cadwell, Wayne State University
3:45 – 5:15 pm: Break
5:15 – 6:45 pm: Keynote Lecture by Dr. Nina Caputo (Ustler Atrium)
Keynote
6:45 – 8:15 pm: Dinner Reception (provided)
Saturday, April 8
Ustler Hall Atrium
8:30 – 9:00 am: Registration and Breakfast
9:00 – 10:30 am: (Un)seen Horrors
- Moderator: Kayley Thomas, University of Florida
- Veronica in Zombie Land: Remixing iZombie in the Rob Thomasverse
Tania Darlington, Northwestern State University - Horror Transformed: Tanabe Gou’s Manga Adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft
Andrew Smith, University of Central Florida - ‘Don’t Linger in the Woods’: Spaces of Tension in Fairy Tales by Angela Carter and Emily Carroll
Madeline Gangnes, University of Florida
10:30 – 10:45 am: Break
10:45 am – 12:15 pm: Fine Art of Tensions
- Moderator: Chase Machado, University of Florida
- Picasso Loves Comics: How Krazy Kat Functioned as Kubist Kat
Kevin Cooley, University of Florida - Mobile Fortress of Solitude: From Illustration to Installation in Mike Kelley’s ‘Kandors’
Alejo Benedetti, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art - Faith in Comics: Ecuadorian Retablo Painting as a Form of Adaptation
Álvaro Alemán, Universidad San Francisco de Quito
12:15 – 1:45 pm: Lunch (not provided)
1:45 – 3:15 pm: Keynote Lecture by Russ Kick
Keynote
3:15 – 3:30 pm: Break
3:30 – 5:00 pm: Classics Illustrated
- Moderator: Madeline Gangnes, University of Florida
- Graphic Frankenstein: Reading Comic Adaptations of Mary Shelley’s Creation in the Second Half of the 20th Century
Ash Connell, University of Texas San Antonio - Classics in the Comics: Poetry and Imagination in the Four Color Medium
Michael Mendoza, Seminole State College of Florida - In / Beyond the Paratext: Contextualizing Comics Adaptations from Classics Illustrated to Bettina Egger’s Moscow Bedeviled
Michel De Dobbeleer, Ghent University
5:00 – 6:30 pm: Dinner (not provided)
6:30 – 8:00 pm: Keynote Lecture by Matt Kish
Keynote
8:00 – 9:00 pm: Reception
Sunday, April 9
Ustler Hall Atrium
8:30 – 9:00 am: Registration and Breakfast
9:00 – 10:30 am: Comics Reframed
- Moderator: Ashley Manchester, University of Florida
- Queering Representation: An Analysis of Maroh’s and Kechiche’s Blue Is the Warmest Color
Gabriella Machado, University of Western Ontario - Neo-Springfield is About to E-X-P-L-O-D-E: Adapting Japanese Nuclear Imagination through James Harvey’s Bartkira
Charles Acheson, University of Florida - The Marginalization of Digital Graphic Narratives Through Transmediation
Daryl Axelrod, University of Miami
10:30 – 10:45 am: Break
10:45 am – 12:15 pm: Mental Images
- Moderator: Chris Smith, University of Florida
- Adapting Addiction Narratives: Translating Disease from Real Life to Graphic Novel
Roxanna Palmer & Peter Cannon, University of South Florida - Graphic Adaptations in the Undergraduate Classroom: Using Graphic Novels to Teach Psychological Science in an Interdisciplinary First Year Writing Seminar
Srishti Nayak, Boston University - Deployment Journals: From Snapshots of Marine Life to a ‘True’ War Story in the Work of Maximilian Uriarte
Najwa Al-Tabaa, University of Florida
12:15 – 12:30 pm: Break
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm: Gendered Gaps
- Moderator: Jaquelin Elliott, University of Florida
- Queering Captain America: Fandom Rewritings of a Jewish Superhero Icon
Megan Fowler, University of Florida - The Visual Idealization of Nostalgic Masculinity in the Darwyn Cooke Graphic Novel Richard Stark’s Parker: The Hunter
Matt Linton, Wayne State University - The Opposite of War: Sex, Gender, and Fetish in Matt Fraction and Christian Ward’s ODY-C
Natalie Sheppard, Southeastern Louisiana University
2:00 – 2:15 pm: Closing Remarks