Projects – Graphic Narratives Network

Projects

Digital Dimension of the GNN

The digital dimension of the GNN has two prongs, starting with this website, which serves as an online platform to facilitate research into graphic narratives and to disseminate the scholarship of network members. This site strives to match the dynamic relationship between text and image …

Projects

Critical Comics

The online collection, “Critical Comics,” serves as a prototype for the digital component of the Graphic Narratives Network. It brings together archival materials from MSU’s Special Collection Comic Art Collection and digital humanities techniques to investigate the evolving relationship between text and technology – in …

About the GNN

The Graphic Narratives Network (GNN) is a collaborative research initiative at Michigan State University. It enables an interdisciplinary group of scholars—both faculty and students—to work collaboratively on topics related to graphic narration in its various forms: comics, graphic novels, photo-essays, animation, and film. Working across languages and cultures, we seek to advance scholarship on verbal-visual texts. Our major activities include internal working sessions and public-facing symposia, as well as the digitization of source materials from MSU’s unique International Comic Art Collection. One targeted outcome of the project is this rich website that will be an interactive scholarly forum, showcasing research and pedagogy concerned with the hybrid form of graphic narratives.

More about the GNN

GNN Team

This interdisciplinary network was founded in 2017 by faculty members with a shared interest in text-image studies and who are working in German, French and Francophone, and Japanese Studies and in Art, Art History, and Design. We are in the process of expanding to include faculty in English, History, and Journalism, and we are interested in international partnerships.

Bios of GNN Members