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Charlotte J. Fabricius @charlottejohanne.bsky.social · 16d

Unless you've been using the 'Duplicate+Convert to Book Section' hack, it which case you're probably fine.

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Charlotte J. Fabricius @charlottejohanne.bsky.social · 17d

...You don't want to know.

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Charlotte J. Fabricius @charlottejohanne.bsky.social · Sep 10

Celebrated four years of holding a PhD in comics by teaching Bechdel's Fun Home to a cohort of English students - and managing just exactly not to cry when reading aloud the final page to my students. No matter how many times I teach it, it still gets me.

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Reposted by Charlotte J. Fabricius

Emily Hogg @emilyjhogg.bsky.social · Jun 4

Feminized Work and the Labor of Literature
A book about literary depictions of the types of work conventionally associated with women, and the role of gendered labour in the literary world.

Feminized Work and the Labor of Literature

edinburghuniversitypress.com

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Charlotte J. Fabricius @charlottejohanne.bsky.social · May 1

In short, as one of our reviewers so generously stated, “this is the book on women’s work in literature that we have been waiting for.” The wait is over, I am inordinately proud of it, and I look forward to following where it takes us next! #academicpublishing #feminized 9/9

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Charlotte J. Fabricius @charlottejohanne.bsky.social · May 1

Finally, the collection is rounded out by an Afterword by Christina Lupton, reflecting on the transhistorical ethos and expansive definitions of work that shape the book, and where this work might take us. 8/

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Charlotte J. Fabricius @charlottejohanne.bsky.social · May 1

The third section contains chapters on Adrienne Rich and ‘scrappy’ writing, by Lindsay Turner; on ‘women’s talk’ in postwar Britain, by Helen Charman; and on feminist history and Buchi Emecheta, by @idaaaskovdolmer.bsky.social and @emilyjhogg.bsky.social 7/

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Charlotte J. Fabricius @charlottejohanne.bsky.social · May 1

Next, a section on resistance and the very recent past - Leah Misemer on protest comics and feminist organizing, Roberta Garrett on the politics of new maternal writing, and @leighan.bsky.social on gendered and colonial violence in the work of Cherie Jones. 6/

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Charlotte J. Fabricius @charlottejohanne.bsky.social · May 1

Then follow chapters on feminist bibliography, by @nicola-wilson.bsky.social; on early modern women’s book collecting, by Lucie Duggan; and on the legacies of Judith Shakespeare, by Varsha Panjwani – all bringing to light the often-overlooked and invisible women of literary history. 5/

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Charlotte J. Fabricius @charlottejohanne.bsky.social · May 1

Our Introduction opens with posters by the legendary See Red Women’s Workshop, who graciously let us to reproduce their work on the stunning cover. Emily and I read these posters, as well as poetry and comics, to explore the concept of feminization and its importance to literature and work. 4/

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Charlotte J. Fabricius @charlottejohanne.bsky.social · May 1

We were fortunate enough to gather everyone for an in-person workshop, to read early drafts and shape each other’s thinking in May of 2023 – thanks in no small part to @idaaaskovdolmer.bsky.social, whose contributions have been absolutely essential to every part of the editorial process. 3/

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Charlotte J. Fabricius @charlottejohanne.bsky.social · May 1

The book is available for purchase (suggest it to your (university) library!) and available open access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched! It covers an expansive range of topics and aspects of feminized work and literature, and I am deeply proud of each and every contribution. 2/

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Charlotte J. Fabricius @charlottejohanne.bsky.social · May 1

’Feminized Work and the Labor of Literature,’ edited by @emilyjhogg.bsky.social and me, is out now with @edinburghup.bsky.social! Working on this book has been an absolute dream – a study in feminist community building and the importance of critically and socially engaged scholarship. 1/

A hand, holding a copy of the book 'Feminized Work and the Labor of Literature,' edited by Emily J. Hogg and Charlotte J. Fabricius.

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Charlotte J. Fabricius @charlottejohanne.bsky.social · Apr 11

Readings include work by @aaronkashtan.bsky.social and @anuncivilphd.bsky.social on banned comics. So grateful to be able to draw on timely scholarly critique of the moral panic over queer comics!

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Charlotte J. Fabricius @charlottejohanne.bsky.social · Apr 11

Today's teaching opens with one of my absolute favorites by @tomgauld.bsky.social (course is Perspectives in American Studies, today's class is The Ten-Cent Plague Then and Now)

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Charlotte J. Fabricius @charlottejohanne.bsky.social · Jan 30

FOUR lines - is that some kind of record?

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Charlotte J. Fabricius @charlottejohanne.bsky.social · Dec 8

Finally read 'The Claremont Run: Subverting Gender in the X-Men' by Andrew Deman (@sequentialscholars.bsky.social). It's a fun read with keen insights but low-key the best sentence in it might be "His clothes have disintegrated with the exception of his left boot, his exterior briefs, and his belt."

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Charlotte J. Fabricius @charlottejohanne.bsky.social · Nov 13

So proud of this article - co-writing with @emilyjhogg.bsky.social was a joy, as was testing out the combination Barbara Pym x Liana Finck! #comicsstudies

Emily Hogg @emilyjhogg.bsky.social · Nov 13

Wrote a new article with @charlottejohanne.bsky.social asking what a mid-century novel about spinsters and church bazaars has in common with instagram comics (hint: it’s something to do with feminised work). You can read here!

www.tandfonline.com

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Charlotte J. Fabricius @charlottejohanne.bsky.social · Oct 23

More pub news! My article on superheroic girlhood, violence, and Ms Marvel is out now in the Journal of Popular Culture: doi.org/10.1111/jpcu... - a great place to begin if you’re curious about my book on super-girls.

The size of the fight in the girl: Violent girlhood in Ms. Marvel

The rise of girl protagonists in superhero comics creates a dilemma, since violent girlhood is surrounded by cultural anxieties, yet super-girls are expected to engage in violence. One of the most po....

doi.org

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Charlotte J. Fabricius @charlottejohanne.bsky.social · Oct 16

Thanks are due to MANY people, but especially to @frederikbk.bsky.social for believing in my book and to @emilyjhogg.bsky.social for giving me the time to (re)write it.

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Charlotte J. Fabricius @charlottejohanne.bsky.social · Oct 16

’Super-Girls of the Future’ is out today! Ask a librarian to get you a copy (or buy it here www.routledge.com/p/book/97810...) if you’re into superhero comics, girlhood studies, comics studies, Ahmedian affect theory, or just want to know why and how Ms Marvel changed super-girls as we knew them.

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Charlotte J. Fabricius @charlottejohanne.bsky.social · Oct 10

Current project: the intersection of feminized work and Instagram comics
Rent free: would literary studies collapse if more of us admitted that we have little-to-no actual evidence that reading makes you a good/better person?

Alex Green (文浩航) @glexareen.bsky.social · Oct 6

Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about.
Here's mine:
- Whether we can have statehood without inhabitable land.
- The legal-philosophical symbolism in Wagner's Ring.

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Charlotte J. Fabricius @charlottejohanne.bsky.social · Sep 29

And this one www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/ta... - none of these are horror, per se, but all have supernatural/creepy elements and all center queer love stories, and I'm working on a piece about them under the rubric of 'sexy/spooky women and the sea'

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Charlotte J. Fabricius @charlottejohanne.bsky.social · Sep 29

Also, Tidevand/Tides by Karoline Stjernfelt - originally in Danish, the first couple of pages can be found in translation here: www.karolinestjernfelt.com/tidevand/qw2... (let me know if I should try to hook you up with the rest of it)

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Charlotte J. Fabricius @charlottejohanne.bsky.social · Sep 29

Shark Wife by Ollie Hicks! drolliehicks.itch.io/shark-wife

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