“Psychographics: Graphic Memoirs and Psychiatric Disability”

Elizabeth Donaldson juxtaposes the linkage of psychosis and violence in the superhero comics tradition with representations of mental illness in contemporary graphic memoirs. This new tradition of illness memoirs in comics helps to make a maligned disability experience (psychosis) publicly legible in innovative and potentially liberating ways.

• University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA. Mysterium Humanum Studies speaker series, 9 April 2019.
• Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY. Guthart Cultural Center Theater, 18 April 2019. 9:30am, free and open to public.
• NYIT, Long Island, NY.  25 April 2019. 12:30-1:50pm, Rubin 311.