Sexual Violence in Comics: The Ethics of Visualizing Trauma
Celebrate faculty excellence with the BHCC community as Assistant Professor Lee Okan introduces her new book, Sexual Violence in Comics: The Ethics of Visualizing Trauma. This session of the Faculty and Staff Voices series highlights Assistant Professor Okan’s recent contributions to the field of media studies and visual autobiography. Join us for a reading and discussion as she explores how artists navigate the tension between testimony and spectacle in contemporary comics.
Welcome: Soo Park, Dean, Humanities and Learning Communities and Ashley Paul, Professor and Chair, English Department
Remarks: Jess Ruliffson, Comic Artist and Scholar and Gerry Waggett, Adjunct Professor, English Department
Presenter: Lee Okan, Assistant Professor, English Department
Sponsor: English Department and the Office of College Events and Cultural Planning