Hillary Chute

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Hillary Chute is a Junior Fellow in Literature at the Harvard Society of Fellows, and will be Neubauer Family Assistant Professor the English Department at the University of Chicago starting in fall 2010. Chute's book Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics is forthcoming from Columbia UP's Gender and Culture series in October 2010, and directly addresses the subject of this proposed session; it examines five female cartoonists who each create nonfiction comics about their lives. Chute has published essays on comics in Twentieth-Century Literature (2006); American Periodicals (2007); Literature and Medicine (2007); PMLA (2008); MFS: Modern Fiction Studies (2008), where she additionally co-edited, in 2006, a special issue on Graphic Narrative with Marianne DeKoven; Women's Studies Quarterly (2008), in which she wrote about Satrapi's Persepolis for a special issue on Witness; and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Review (2009). She is Associate Editor of Art Spiegelman's MetaMaus (Pantheon, 2011) and a contributing editor to the Heath Anthology of American Literature (Contemporary Volume). She recently spoke about Alison Bechdel's Fun Home for the MLA radio program What's the Word?

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