It’s always exciting when a new book comes out, and even though I finished drawing the third edition of Shane about a month ago, I got the complete cover proofs today and now it feels like it’s really real. And no matter how many books …
It’s always fun when, late in the summer, just when we are starting to feel the dread/excitement/thrill/terror of the coming fall semester, something delightful appears in your email inbox. Today I learned that my newest publication was out—this time starring lots of velveteen rabbits and …
Well, folks, it has been a busy month, so let’s get caught up! I am just back from a bit of a whirlwind trip to England, a place where I have so many friends and colleagues and where I always feel at home. On this …
So it looks like a manuscript that I thought I published was not in fact published and now it is published. Either way I am completely honored to have my work appear in Education, Citizenship and Social Justice under the editorship of Professors Nathan Fretwell …
This was one of those book chapters that was so much fun to write—and something I have been itching to get out there for some time. As many of you know, one of my early areas of scholarship was labor force feminization. I even wrote …
In which I appear quite heroic indeed. I gave a little guest lecture to some wonderful students at the University of Galway and received the best thanks ever. The instructor wrote, “Thank you so much for joining our comics class yesterday! The students were absolutely …
This semester I taught three classes that focused on arts-based scholarship. These included The Junior Year Writing students began the semester exploring nonconventional texts at the UMass museum of contemporary art, where they were able to meet the artists of the Over the River Collective …
A few years ago I wrote a piece about The Death Game in preschool; to make a very long story short, this was an often wild, often somber, sometimes unruly and always ket game that the preschoolers in my field site cooked up as a …
