Adrienne Resha, PhD @adrienneresha.bsky.social · 05/08/2026This is up on the department website, so I think it's safe to finally, publicly say that I'm very proud and incredibly privileged to be joining the faculty at the University of Virginia as an Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures. 041
Reposted by Adrienne Resha, PhDSequential Scholars @sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 12/04/2026I wrote a whole thing about this project and it's place in public-facing scholarship for "The Conversation" if anyone would like to read about some of the ideals informing what we do. theconversation.com/want-to-talk... #comicsstudiestheconversation.comWant to talk comics? Today, that often means going onlineIn a new media era, comic fans share our comics experience with others online — debating, reflecting, recommending and enjoying. 095
Reposted by Adrienne Resha, PhDWilliam Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 26/02/2026CFP/ MLA 2027. Panel on Migration in Children's and YA Graphic Narratives, sponsored by the Forum on Comics and Graphic Narrative. Deadline 3/16. 024
Reposted by Adrienne Resha, PhDWilliam Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 28/01/2026MLA 2027 CFP for 3 panels sponsored by the Comics and Graphic Narratives Forum: I. Migration in Children's and YA Graphic Narratives II. Heated Rivalries: Sports, Games, and Graphic Narrative III. The Hernandez Brothers, Page-by-Page 0116
Reposted by Adrienne Resha, PhDQiana Whitted @qianawhitted.bsky.social · 07/01/2026If you're going to be at MLA 2026 in Toronto this week, the Comics & Graphic Narratives Forum is hosting a social at The Beguiling on Friday at 7pm. Come out and say hello! 185
Reposted by Adrienne Resha, PhDWilliam Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 06/01/2026If you are in Toronto this week for the MLA Convention, the Comics and Graphic Narratives Forum is sponsoring a social hour at the comics store The Beguiling on Friday, 1/9 from 7:00 to 8:30 pm. 083
Reposted by Adrienne Resha, PhDJulia Round @hypnojoo.bsky.social · 02/11/2025#AcademicSky Please share this call for #ComicsStudies chapters for our proposed Companion to International Comics Studies as widely as possible. Full details here ow.ly/5vY050XipXT and deadline for proposals is 31 Jan 2026. 1139
Reposted by Adrienne Resha, PhDTiffany Babb 🔜 NYCC @explodingarrow.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Happy Tuesday folks - if you missed out on the last Kickstarter, you can now buy print and digital copies of The Comics Courier Issue 2 from our Ko-Fi shop! ko-fi.com/thecomicscou... 02710
Reposted by Adrienne Resha, PhDSteve Morris @stevewmorris.bsky.social · 16/05/2025I feel that Shelfdust is the comics website people say they want to read - so I'd love for more people to know about it! ▶️ You can follow the site @shelfdust.bsky.social ▶️ Read it every week shelfdust.com ▶️ Subscribe (paid or free) via Patreon to get weekly email updates www.patreon.com/shelfdust 01425
Reposted by Adrienne Resha, PhDTiffany Babb 🔜 NYCC @explodingarrow.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Happy LAUNCH DAY! The Comics Courier @kickstarter.com is BACK babeeeyyy. Head on over to comicscourier.com to pledge and nab yourself a smokin hot copy of The Comics Courier issue 2. You wont regret it! 33727
Reposted by Adrienne Resha, PhDTiffany Babb 🔜 NYCC @explodingarrow.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Guess what? The Comics Courier's Kickstarter is coming round the bend!!! Head over to our pre launch campaign to make sure you're up to date on our shenanigans (it took me 3 times to spell shenanigans!!!)!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tif...kickstarter.comComing soon: The Comics Courier, A Comics Criticism Journal [Issue 2]A newspaper-format journal dedicated to in-depth comics criticism edited by Tiffany Babb 2119
Adrienne Resha, PhD @adrienneresha.bsky.social · 06/04/2025It's Arab American Heritage Month, so here's a few @wwacomics.bsky.social pieces about Arab rep in comics, starting with "Spotlight on Nadia Shammas" womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2020/08/spot...womenwriteaboutcomics.comSpotlight on Nadia Shammas - WWAC %Recently announced as the writer of a Ms. Marvel graphic novel, Nadia Shammas might new to some, but she isn’t new to comics. 12113
Reposted by Adrienne Resha, PhDTiffany Babb 🔜 NYCC @explodingarrow.bsky.social · 08/03/2025It's time to click the button, folks! The pre-launch page for The Comics Courier Issue 2 is live NOW! And what a lineup! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tif...kickstarter.comComing soon: The Comics Courier, A Comics Criticism Journal [Issue 2]A newspaper-format journal dedicated to in-depth comics criticism edited by Tiffany Babb 45943
Reposted by Adrienne Resha, PhDTiffany Babb 🔜 NYCC @explodingarrow.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Happy New Year, pals. It's time for the (hopefully annual) comic critics mini grant. My family and I are giving four mini grants of $250 to comics critics. Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.com2025 Comics Criticism Mini GrantThis project will be awarding four mini grants of $250 to comics critics. To apply, please provide 3 links to comics criticism work of at least 500 words published in the last year (blogs and Youtube ... 11249233
Adrienne Resha, PhD @adrienneresha.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Every time someone asks me what I’m presenting at MLA I’m reminded that I named my paper after a Dwayne The Rock Johnson meme. 130
Adrienne Resha, PhD @adrienneresha.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Now that there are more #ComicsStudies scholars here, here's the CFP for The Blue Age of Comics Book! Abstracts due January 15, 2025. 074
Adrienne Resha, PhD @adrienneresha.bsky.social · 08/11/2024Hello new folks I am not online very often (for a few reasons) but first and foremost being that I am doing what Steve asked. 151
Adrienne Resha, PhD @adrienneresha.bsky.social · 18/10/2024Katlin Marisol Sweeney-Romero and I are very excited to share the CFP for our #comicsstudies co-edited collection: The Blue Age of Comics Book! adrienneresha.com/the-blue-age...adrienneresha.comThe Blue Age of Comics BookBlue Age Book CFPDownload 032
Adrienne Resha, PhD @adrienneresha.bsky.social · 15/09/2024Proposed seminars for ACLA 2025 are up, including "How It’s Made: Image-texts, Identity, Interpretation, Intersections," which I'm co-organizing with Kate Kelp-Stebbins. Please consider submitting (or sharing with someone who should)! CFP and link to submit: www.acla.org/how-it%E2%80...acla.orgHow It’s Made: Image-texts, Identity, Interpretation, Intersections | American Comparative Literature Association 000
Reposted by Adrienne Resha, PhDSteve Morris @stevewmorris.bsky.social · 08/08/2024Hello! I’d like to raise some funds for Shelfdust, a comic book website. Everyone writing on Shelfdust covers comics one issue at a time: each essay focuses on a single comic issue. We pay every writer through support on Patreon! Pledging $1 a year is all it takes: www.patreon.com/shelfdust 55679
Reposted by Adrienne Resha, PhDWWAComics @wwacomics.bsky.social · 02/08/2024REVIEW: NYX #1 Asks Big Questions, But Does It Have the Answers?womenwriteaboutcomics.comREVIEW: NYX #1 Asks Big Questions, But Does It Have the Answers? - WWAC %Adrienne Resha reviews Marvel's NYX #1 by writers Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing and artist Francesco Mortarino. 043
Adrienne Resha, PhD @adrienneresha.bsky.social · 16/04/2024"[Killing Ms. Marvel] was a choice for each of [the creators], even if it was a plot point mandated from above, because they decided to put their names on it despite any objections they may have had." womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2023/05/the-...womenwriteaboutcomics.comESSAY: The Day Kamala Khan Died - WWAC %Adrienne Resha writes about the death of Ms. Marvel in The Amazing Spider-Man #26 by artist John Romita Jr. and writer Zeb Wells. 010
Reposted by Adrienne Resha, PhDSam Langsdale @samlangsdale.bsky.social · 02/04/2024CSS is excited to announce our keynotes for Glitching Comics: John Jennings & Sara Alfageeh! Registration is also OPEN! Join us for 5 days of virtual programming incld scholarly presentations, workshops, creator roundtables, social events & an Artists Alley comicsstudies.org/registration/ 031
Reposted by Adrienne Resha, PhDThe Comics Studies Society @cssorg.bsky.social · 25/01/2024Just THREE weeks remain to get those proposals to our virtual conference in! Bring your glitchiest, feministest ideas, and get ready for the wildest, weirdest Comics Studies Society since the last one! More info here: comicsstudies.org/css-2024-cal... 043
Reposted by Adrienne Resha, PhDWWAComics @wwacomics.bsky.social · 18/01/2024REVIEW: Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant #3, @adrienneresha.bsky.socialwomenwriteaboutcomics.comREVIEW: Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant #3 - WWACAdrienne Resha reviews Iman Vellani, Sabir Pirzada, Carlos Gómez, and Adam Gorham's Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant #3. 043
Reposted by Adrienne Resha, PhDSam Langsdale @samlangsdale.bsky.social · 18/12/2023The CFP for CSS's 2024 conference *Glitching Comics* is OPEN! Join us for a virtual conference following the work of Legacy Russell in disrupting the status quo, working against norms, and imagining new possibilities for comics. Art by Sara Alfageeh comicsstudies.org/css-2024-cal... 089
Reposted by Adrienne Resha, PhDSam Langsdale @samlangsdale.bsky.social · 27/11/2023The Comics Studies Society CFP for the 2024 annual conference is now LIVE! Join us in following Legacy Russell’s bold and necessary work as we explore *Glitching Comics* See the full call for papers here: comicsstudies.org/css-2024-cal...comicsstudies.orgCSS 2024 | Call for Papers 079
Adrienne Resha, PhD @adrienneresha.bsky.social · 06/11/2023I had a new essay go up on Shelfdust last week! It's about Man-Thing, the Everglades, and endings: shelfdust.com/2023/11/01/t...shelfdust.comThe End (of the World) Has No End: Giant-Size Man-Thing #1By Adrienne Resha Superhero comic books have often been preoccupied with a tomorrow that looks a lot like our today; rife with geopolitical conflict, nuclear threats, and ecological crisis. Many have ... 143
Reposted by Adrienne Resha, PhDSteve Morris @stevewmorris.bsky.social · 01/11/2023The End (of the World) Has No End: Giant-Size Man-Thing #1, by @adrienneresha.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2023/11/01/t...shelfdust.comThe End (of the World) Has No End: Giant-Size Man-Thing #1By Adrienne Resha Superhero comic books have often been preoccupied with a tomorrow that looks a lot like our today; rife with geopolitical conflict, nuclear threats, and ecological crisis. Many have ... 032
Reposted by Adrienne Resha, PhDSteve Morris @stevewmorris.bsky.social · 28/10/2023Halloween's coming up, so next week on the site... @adrienneresha.bsky.social has something chilling for you all!! 041
Adrienne Resha, PhD @adrienneresha.bsky.social · 07/10/2023Mini haul from the Richmond Zine Fest including The Rock zine by Kendra & Kat, Swamp Thing zine by Kayla Payne, and Raven print by Camryn Simms! 020
Adrienne Resha, PhD @adrienneresha.bsky.social · 04/10/2023Up now @wwacomics.bsky.social, my review of (and feelings about Emma Frost in) Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant #2!womenwriteaboutcomics.comREVIEW: Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant #2 - WWACAdrienne Resha reviews Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant #2 by Iman Vellani, Sabir Pirzada, Carlos Gómez, and Adam Gorham. 031
Reposted by Adrienne Resha, PhDSam Langsdale @samlangsdale.bsky.social · 04/10/2023The Comics Studies Society CFP for the 2024 annual conference is now LIVE! Join us in following Legacy Russell’s bold and necessary work as we explore *Glitching Comics* See the full call for papers here: comicsstudies.org/css-2024-cal...comicsstudies.orgCSS 2024 | Call for Papers 1109
Adrienne Resha, PhD @adrienneresha.bsky.social · 04/09/2023I got to talk to Ms. Marvel comics and TV writer Sabir Pirzada about Marvel's newest mutant for @wwacomics.bsky.social! womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2023/09/inte...womenwriteaboutcomics.comINTERVIEW: Sabir Pirzada on Ms. Marvel, Mutants, and More - WWACAdrienne Resha and Sabir Pirzada discuss Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant #1 co-written with Iman Vellani, art by Adam Gorham and Carlos Gómez. 073
Reposted by Adrienne Resha, PhDWWAComics @wwacomics.bsky.social · 30/08/2023@adrienneresha.bsky.social, our resident Kamala Khan expert, reviewed today's Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant #1 and explored her new normal #comicswomenwriteaboutcomics.comREVIEW: Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant #1 and Kamala Khan's New Normal - WWACAdrienne Resha reviews Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant #1 by Iman Vellani, Sabir Pirzada, Carlos Gómez, and Adam Gorham. 022
Adrienne Resha, PhD @adrienneresha.bsky.social · 30/08/2023I got to break in my birthday gift from @metakate.bsky.social today picking up Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant #1, which I reviewed for WWAC! womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2023/08/revi... 120
Adrienne Resha, PhD @adrienneresha.bsky.social · 25/07/2023Resurrected this episode just in time for Kamala Khan’s resurrection! 022
Reposted by Adrienne Resha, PhDthe kat from HOUSE (1977) @dogunderwater.bsky.social · 25/07/2023. @annapeppard.bsky.social piece, “Nightcrawler is a Sex-Positive Superhero. Here’s How—And Why it Matters” just won the Gilbert Seldes Prize for Public Scholarship Honorable Mention, and to celebrate we made the essay free to read on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/65738730 23414