On the Radar: “Where are the women in American Comics of the Vietnam War?” with Dr Harriet Earle – Wednesday 06 March 2024
ON THE RADAR research seminars promote the sharing of knowledge across the entire Sheffield Hallam University community – all are welcome, free to attend. Our next talk is by Dr Harriet Earle (English and Creative Writing) with Where are the women in American Comics of the Vietnam War?, as below:
Where are the women in American Comics of the Vietnam War?
Although women have long played roles in the military, within the USA this has usually been in secretarial, support and caring positions; the role of women in active combat remains controversial. Since 1948, women have been a permanent part of the US military. But they are not common characters in US war comics. One of the simplest explanations for limited female protagonists in American comics of conflict is that women have long been considered only as bit-players on the military stage. This talk presents an overview of the representation of both American and Vietnamese women in comics of the Vietnam War, viewing female characters through three lenses: the caregiver, the combatant, and the consumable. I ask to what extent do female characters fill these roles? Are they viewed differently by different male characters? And what does this mean for representations of both femininity and masculinity in these comics?
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Where are the women in American Comics of the Vietnam War? with Dr Harriet Earle
Wednesday 06 March 2024, 13:00-14:00
Cantor 9235
All welcome, free to attend. If you have any queries please contact the CCRI team. Please share the details with your students and colleagues who you think might be interested in coming along.
For more information about ON THE RADAR or to add your name as a future presenter, contact Dr Diane A. Rodgers / @SHU_radar / #shuradar
Image courtesy of Harriet Earle
Dr Harriet Earle is a Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam University. Dr Earle’s research focuses on representations of conflict and trauma in visual culture, especially comics. She has a PhD in American Comics from Keele University and her first monograph, Comics, Trauma and the New Art of War, was published in July 2017 by the University Press of Mississippi. Her publications are spread across the field of comics and popular culture studies. Dr Earle sits on the editorial board of Comics Forum. Research interests include comics studies, American popular culture, Twentieth and twenty-first century Anglophone literatures, representations of traumatic experience and violence, women in popular culture, conflict and war literature
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