This book explores the distinctive narrative and representational gestures used to portray the personal and professional lives of teachers in comics. While serving as a reference for conceptualizing teachers in literary and popular culture, this book also turns to comics as a means to better understand and interpret lived, emotional experiences of teaching. Lewkowich discusses the cultural history of teachers in North American comics, and provides a series of thematic studies on the split and secret identities of teachers, teacher’s deaths by murder, and the teacher’s relationship to the thought bubble. He also outlines the psychic and social consequences of reading and making comics with preservice teachers.
Table of Content
Chapter 1: Finding the figure of the teacher in comics.- Chapter 2: Dying and Exacting Revenge “On the Plane of Psychic Action”: From the Student’s Humiliation to the Teacher’s Death.- Chapter 3: On the Uses of Thought Bubbles: Materializing the Teacher’s Thinking Beyond the Façade of Surface Appearance.- Chapter 4: Emanata: On the Vast Spillage of Teacher’s Emotions in Comics.- Chapter 5: Identity Loss and The Origins of Superheroic Teachers in Comics.- Chapter 6: Passing, Covering, and Oscillations of the True and False Self: The Identity Management Strategies of Superheroic Teachers in Comics.- Chapter 7: Psychoanalytic Readings of the Double Life of Teaching and Not-Teaching: Spider-Man, Black Lightning, and Johnny Thunder.- Chapter 8: The Anxious Underworld of Teacher Education: Reading and Representing the School Dream in Comics Form.- Conclusion: The Complementary Uses of Dreams and Comics.
About the author
David Lewkowich is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at University of Alberta, Canada.
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