I’m delighted to say that my talk at the Ulrich Museum of Art in Wichita, KS has been rescheduled for Thursday, April 27. The title (too long as usual) is “Yes, No, Maybe So: Connections Between Japanese Prints, Anime, and Manga and the Stories We Tell About Them.” You can read the full talk description on the event page. I hope to see you there!
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Article published in Internet Histories
I’m delighted to announce that my article “Talking by letter: the hidden history of female media fans on the 1990s internet” is now available in Internet Histories. This article draws on the interviews I and my fellow investigators did for the Fan Fiction and Internet Memory oral history project in 2012, which was led by the excellent Prof. Abigail De Kosnik. If you haven’t read her book Rogue Archives, you totally should.
I want to thank again all the fans who participated in the interviews, as well as the many members of the FFIM and Fan Data research teams. Our collaboration was one of the highlights of my graduate career, and I’m very happy to be able to add this publication to those commemorating it. Many thanks as well to the editors of this special issue of Internet Histories, Valérie Schafer and Benjamin G. Thierry, for accepting this paper and helping to improve it through the revision process.
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture
I’m very happy to say that I’ll be giving a talk at Sophia University in Tokyo next week, 15 June 2018. “Dual Legacies: MAVO, Manga, and the Avant-Garde in Interwar Japan” explores the role that the radical 1920s art movement MAVO played in the work of the two most influential mangaka of the 1930s, Yanase Masamu and Tagawa Suihô, both of whom were MAVO members.
The talk starts at 18:30 and is open to the public. Full details are on the ICC page. I hope to see you there!
Mechademia Kyoto + Comics Studies Society
The schedule for the Mechademia Kyoto conference this weekend is now online, so I can confirm that I’ll be speaking on Saturday, giving my 2015 talk “A Children’s Empire: The Prewar ‘Media Mix’ of the Kodansha Club Magazines” a shiny post-PhD update. Registration is still available, and you should totally attend if you’ll be around.
I also heard yesterday that I received an honorable mention for the Comics Studies Society‘s inaugural Chute Award for Best Graduate Presentation for my talk “Something Postmodern Going On: The Queering of the Manga Sphere in the 1970s,” given at the UC Berkeley CJS Graduate Conference last year. (The announcement initially said the mention had been given to my phantom twin brother, Andrew Horbinski, but he’s not the one with the PhD.)
I’m very grateful for the recognition, and I was also pleased to see that my Belgian colleague Benoît Crucifix has won the CSS Article prize for his article “Cut-up and Redrawn: Charles Burns’s Swipe Files.” Sadly I have a prior commitment and won’t be able to attend the inaugural CSS Conference in August, but I hope to do so in the future.
Sirens Studio 2018
Since there are apparently 15 tickets remaining, it seems like the time to mention that I’ll be one of the faculty members at this year’s Sirens Studio, the prequel event for the Sirens Conference. Join us in Beaver Creek, CO in October to take a deep dive into writing, reading, and career sessions with me and seven other distinguished session leaders.
My session is “Taking the Off-Ramp: Strategies and Practices for Changing Careers (Especially for Academics).” We’ll be talking about the increasingly common reality of changing careers and best practices for doing it.
Beyond Academia 2018
I’m very excited to say that I’ll be appearing at the Beyond Academia 2018 conference at the beginning of next month. Beyond Academia is an organization seeking to connect PhDs with career opportunities outside academia, and I’ve been a fan of their work for a while now. The conference includes keynotes, panels, and networking receptions.
Specifically, I’ll be appearing on the Media & Communication panel at 9:45am on Thursday, March 1st, and sticking around through the networking luncheon that same day. Registration is open now. I hope to see you there!
Around the internet: Interview, roundtable, write-up
After teaching a rather intense summer course, I’m trying to get back into the swing of writing. In the meantime, I’ve recently made several appearances elsewhere online.
- I interviewed Laurie J. Marks for the Sirens Conference, taking place in Denver next month. I hope to see you there!
- At Women Write About Comics, I participated in a roundtable on teaching Bitch Planet.
- And for the Berkeley Center of New Media, I wrote a brief report on my research trip to the Harvard-Yenching Library in June.
Further up & farther in
In the spirit of evolution, I’m moving my blogging to this site and semi-retiring my former blog at ahorbinski.dreamwidth.org. Onward!
Andrea Horbinski 