the ‘feminisation’ of work doesn’t mean that work is being ruined by emotional women/ male unemployment doesn’t matter! By @charlottejohanne.bsky.social @idaaaskovdolmer.bsky.social and I: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Call for papers for the edited collection, Beyond the American Western: Picturing the Far West in Global Comics: williamgrady.co.uk/cfp/ The volume aims to explore the vibrancy and diversity of the Western genre in comics from around the world. Deadline for proposals: 14th December 2025

My award-winning article on Instagram comics and feminized work is free to read (until April 30 2026)! My thanks to @hypnojoo.bsky.social and the team at @intellectbooks.bsky.social for making this happen.

I am incredibly honoured to be awarded the 2025 Martin Schüwer Publication Prize for Excellence in Comics Studies for my article ‘Drawing in Circles: Feminized Labour in Autobiographical Comics and Cartoons on Instagram’ (supported by the Carlsberg Foundation and published in Studies in Comics)

Celebrated four years of holding a PhD in comics by teaching Bechdel's Fun Home to a cohort of English students - and managing just exactly not to cry when reading aloud the final page to my students. No matter how many times I teach it, it still gets me.

Feminized Work and the Labor of Literature A book about literary depictions of the types of work conventionally associated with women, and the role of gendered labour in the literary world.

’Feminized Work and the Labor of Literature,’ edited by @emilyjhogg.bsky.social and me, is out now with @edinburghup.bsky.social! Working on this book has been an absolute dream – a study in feminist community building and the importance of critically and socially engaged scholarship. 1/

Today's teaching opens with one of my absolute favorites by @tomgauld.bsky.social (course is Perspectives in American Studies, today's class is The Ten-Cent Plague Then and Now)

Finally read 'The Claremont Run: Subverting Gender in the X-Men' by Andrew Deman (@sequentialscholars.bsky.social). It's a fun read with keen insights but low-key the best sentence in it might be "His clothes have disintegrated with the exception of his left boot, his exterior briefs, and his belt."

So proud of this article - co-writing with @emilyjhogg.bsky.social was a joy, as was testing out the combination Barbara Pym x Liana Finck! #comicsstudies

More pub news! My article on superheroic girlhood, violence, and Ms Marvel is out now in the Journal of Popular Culture: doi.org/10.1111/jpcu... - a great place to begin if you’re curious about my book on super-girls.

’Super-Girls of the Future’ is out today! Ask a librarian to get you a copy (or buy it here www.routledge.com/p/book/97810...) if you’re into superhero comics, girlhood studies, comics studies, Ahmedian affect theory, or just want to know why and how Ms Marvel changed super-girls as we knew them.

Current project: the intersection of feminized work and Instagram comics Rent free: would literary studies collapse if more of us admitted that we have little-to-no actual evidence that reading makes you a good/better person?