- SLC 194
- Gold HUAD
- Session C
- Immersion
This course invites students to explore comics as world literature, exploring the ways in which the medium became one of the most dominant and influential forms of global storytelling over the course of the twentieth century. Focusing on primary source texts, the course surveys the history of comics in America, Europe, Japan, as well as the Middle East and Indonesia, while also critically engaging theories of genre, myth, adaptation, and translation. Students will study the development of international comics art and publishing, reading humor, adventure, superhero, horror, science fiction, romance, war, and memoir comics from around the world in English translation.