Oracle accepted!

About a month ago I posted about a conference I submitted to (https://deviatefromnorm.wordpress.com/2024/02/14/a-glitch-in-the-system/). I got the e-mail that my proposal was accepted!!! This is really exciting for me. One, it gives me something else to work on in addition to the dissertation (and will hopefully inspire more work on the dissertation). Two, I really feel…

A Glitch in the System

Recently I saw a call for papers for the Comic Study Society. I am a founding member of CSS and I see the annual calls for presenters for the annual conference. Usually it's more of the fact that I can't afford to go, commonly combined with the theme not speaking to me. I saw this…

Vision Shifting Soon

I just finished writing the latest draft of my dissertation prospectus. Tomorrow I'm going to put in all the citations I still need to add and send it off to my committee. I'm hoping what I'll hear back is "When do we schedule your defense?" and I can finally get working on more than that.…

It’s finally starting!

Last week, I got an e-mail that has changed my life. I had submitted a proposal for a chapter about Oracle and why both her presence and removal from comic books is so important for a book about representing disability in the media. The e-mail said that the editor of the book just got the…

Supers and disability

Around a month from now, I'll be presenting "SuperTropes: Finding the difference between Narrative Prosthesis and Introduction to Disability in Marvel Comics" at the Comics and Popular Arts Conference (CPAC) at DragonCon in Atlanta, GA. I submitted it in my continuing side project of looking at representation of disability in superhero comic books. I kept…

I am so lucky!

Both of my parents went to college and earned bachelor's degrees. My mom was the first in her family. My dad was the son of a Spanish professor. Both of them raised my sister and I to not repeat their mistakes: don't get a degree because it sounds like fun. My mom wanted to be…