New Graphic Genres + Online Reading Communities
dr. emily Christina murphy(February 27, 2025)
Dr. Emily Christina Murphy is an Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities, English, and Cultural Studies in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies here at UBCO. Dr. Murphy’s research focuses on comics, literature, social media, embodiment, + modernist robots. The focus of her wide range of research is united by an orientation toward cultural memory and media. Significantly, she is the Director of the CFI-funded ReMedia Infrastructure for Research and Creation. She co-edited EnTwine: A Critical and Creative Companion to Teaching With Twine (Amherst College Press). Her in-progress book analyzes the new print comics genres in contemporary publishing.
In this talk, Dr. Murphy traces a new genre of comics publishing—graphic biographies—using approaches from close reading, to computational analysis, to reception studies. Drawing from her background in literary studies, Dr. Murphy demonstrates how online reading communities shape “cultural memory” and can shift our assumptions about publics, accessibility, technology, + representation.
Access Script and Slides here: https://bit.ly/Murphy_NewGraphicGenres
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UBCO Faculty Website
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