New course gives the graphic novel due respect as literary form
Drs. Andrew Loman and Nancy Pedri
Memorial professors Drs. Andrew Loman and Nancy Pedri are team teaching the Introduction to the Graphic Novels. It’s a course that introduces the novel as a literary form, and helps broaden student’s familiarity with the genre.
Graphic novels are increasingly popular with young people, but only recently have gained recognition within the world of academia.
“It’s a form that’s been monstrously overlooked, but that has tremendous literary potential,” said Dr. Loman, who read graphic novels incessantly as a teenager and has also published in the form. “It is really politically engaged, yet people have not been able to forget its pulp origins.”
Drs Loman and Pedri work together in the classroom, introducing topics and then opening a dialogue with the students.