Seminar: Picture This! Representations of Mental Health and the Search for Identity in Graphic Novels and Picture Books - Details

Seminar: Picture This! Representations of Mental Health and the Search for Identity in Graphic Novels and Picture Books - Details

General information

Course name Seminar: Picture This! Representations of Mental Health and the Search for Identity in Graphic Novels and Picture Books
Subtitle
Semester WiSe 2024/25 [inaktiv]
Current number of participants 40
Home institute Institut für Anglistik
Courses type Seminar in category Teaching
First date Sat., 30.11.24, 12:00 - 16:00

Rooms and times

Alter Steinbacher Weg 44, 202

  • Saturday, 30.11.24, 12:00 - 16:00 o'clock
  • Sunday, 01.12.24, 09:00 - 16:00 o'clock
  • Friday, 20.12.24, 09:00 - 16:00 o'clock

No room

  • Thursday, 19.12.24, 09:00 - 16:00 o'clock

Informationen für das eVV

Studienbereiche/Modulzuordnungen

Comment/Description

This seminar aims to explore how mental health and identity are represented in graphic novels and picture books. To this end, we will familiarize ourselves with basic narrative techniques and stylistic devices in the graphic novel before further diving into media analysis.

As this seminar centers on the discussion of graphic novels and picture books and their representation of mental health and the search for identity, participants are expected to be willing to purchase at least one graphic novel of their choosing for analysis. While the lecturer will bring several texts to the sessions in order to provide students with some initial examples, students may be asked to either find examples at the university library or purchase primary texts of their choosing to prepare the unconference as well as an abstract for their term papers. At the same time, any necessary secondary literature will be made available digitally via Stud.IP.

With this course being taught in four sessions, students are expected to fulfill regular course attendance, active in-class participation, and submission of assignments in preparation for the respective session. Additionally, participants are asked to ensure access to a copy of a graphic novel or picture book of their choice for individual work sessions and in-class group assignments (digital copies are accepted).

Some of the graphic novels and picture books we will be discussing include but are not limited to Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home (2006), Grayson Lee White’s Dotson (2023), Debbie Tung’s Everything is Okay (2022), and Zoe Thorogood’s It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth (2023). Additional secondary literature will include Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics. The Invisible Art (1994) as well as Julia Abel and Christian Klein's (Eds.) Comics und Graphic Novels. Eine Einführung (2016).

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "Anmeldung gesperrt (global)".
The following rules apply for the admission:
  • Admission locked.