Writers@Grinnell: Deborah Whaley

Apr 17, 2018

Award-winning artist, curator, and author Deborah Whaley will read from her work and discuss writing on Thursday, April 26, as part of the Writers@Grinnell series at Grinnell College. The event, which is free and open to the public, will start at 4:15 p.m. at the Periodic Table, in the Hotel Grinnell, 925 Park Street, Grinnell.

Deborah Elizabeth Whaley is currently senior scholar for digital arts and humanities research for the Digital Scholarship and Publishing Studio (DSPS) and professor of American and African American Studies at the University of Iowa. Her research and teaching fields include the institutional history, theories, and methods of American and transnational American studies, 19th century to the present cultural history, comparative ethnic studies, black cultural studies, popular culture, the visual arts, digital humanities, and critical theory.

Her most recent book is Black Women in Sequence: Reinking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime (University of Washington Press, 2015), which won an award from AAUP for its graphic design and book cover. BWiS explores graphic novel production and comic book fandom, looking in particular at African, African American, and multiethnic women as deployed in television, film, animation, gaming, and print representations of comic book and graphic novel characters.

Winners of the spring writing contests will be announced at this event!