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Inserting Oneself In The Story: Queer Literacy, Comics, And An Admonition To Move, Irene Papoulis, Nicholas P. Marino
Inserting Oneself In The Story: Queer Literacy, Comics, And An Admonition To Move, Irene Papoulis, Nicholas P. Marino
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Inserting Oneself in the Story: Queer Literacy, Comics, and an Admonition to Move
Where Image And Text Meet Identity: Gifted Students’ Poetry Comics And The Crafting Of “Nerd Identities”, Michael L. Kersulov, Adam Henze
Where Image And Text Meet Identity: Gifted Students’ Poetry Comics And The Crafting Of “Nerd Identities”, Michael L. Kersulov, Adam Henze
Journal of Media Literacy Education
This article reports on a study of how a class of fifteen- and sixteen-year-old gifted high school students “mixed” the media of poetry and comics to unveil and interrogate (what they called) their “nerd identities.” Both co-authors constructed and co-taught a class within a literature-based comics course that led students through various writing processes that focused on the visual and textual properties of poetry and comics. Researchers asked: How may gifted students use poetry and comics to write about identity? How can the mixing of poetry and comics contribute to media literacy education? Using their poetry comics to connect their …