Susan Kirtley, Ph.D

About the Author

Susan E. Kirtley is the Professor of English and Director of Comics Studies at Portland State University. She is the author of the Eisner-winning Lynda Barry: Girlhood Through the Looking Glass and coeditor of With Great Power Comes Great Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, and Comics. Her book Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips was the 2022 Charles Hatfield Prizewinner for the best book in Comics Studies. She is currently the editor of Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society. She lives in Portland, OR.
Nhora Lucia Serrano is the Director of Learning and Research at Hamilton College. She is the editor of Immigrants and Comics: Graphic Spaces of Remembrance, Transaction, and Mimesis, coeditor of the the Wilfrid Laurier University Press book series “Crossing Lines: Transcultural/Transnational Comics Studies”, coeditor of Curious Collectors, Collected Curiosities: An Interdisciplinary Study, and her published essays have appeared in The Oxford Handbook of Comic Studies, MLA Approaches to Teaching Orhan Pamuk, MLA Approaches to Teaching Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, X-Tra Contemporary Art Quarterly, Museological Review, and other publications. She lives in Clinton, NY.