2025 Seminar Description

Graphic Narratives as Teaching Tools

Marta Figlerowicz, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature

This seminar would focus on the history of graphic novels and how they can be useful in teaching a variety of topics, ranging from history, science, and philosophy to art. It would give the Fellows a transferrable language for appreciating what makes comics an art form and how different artists innovate within it. The range would be a bit less global here, but still introduce some unexpected examples. (Japanese manga about Buddhism, for example, and some surprisingly accessible comics about language philosophy.)