Recent CWL Faculty Publications
This book presents a captivating exploration of the rich tapestry of Middle Eastern diasporic literature, spanning the landscapes of Canada and France. With eloquent prose, the author guides readers on an enthralling journey through the intricate interplay of themes, styles, tropes, and sociohistorical context. This monograph breathes life into an array of mesmerizing texts authored by luminaries including Wajdi Mouawad, Khaled Osman, Rawi Hage, Denis Villeneuve, and Soha Béchara whose literary roots span Lebanon and Switzerland. Through meticulous analysis and thoughtful reflection, this work unveils the profound resonance of these writers’ voices across borders and cultures.
Dr. Crystal Yin Lie would like to share her recent article, published in the interdisciplinary quarterly Biography. “Drawn To History: Healing, Dementia, and the Armenian Genocide in the Intertextual Collage of Aliceheimer’s” explores Dana Walrath’s memoir, Aliceheimer’s: Alzheimer’s Through the Looking Glass (2016), noting graphic medicine’s commitments to interrogating power relations in medical discourse, highlighting the valuable perspective of dementia experience, and revealing how by juxtaposing personal essay with the visual-verbal affordances of comics, intertextual collage, and the altered book, Walrath links her experiences of caregiving, Alice’s dementia, and Armenian history to the adventures of Carroll’s Wonderland, creating a sense of both dissonance and exploratory freedom to broach subjects that might typically be regarded as unapproachable. The entire issue can be accessed on Project Muse: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/47911. Readers may also be interested to know that ‘Graphic Medicine’ has been published by the University of Hawai‘i Press (July 2022): https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/graphic-medicine/
Also from Dr. Lie:
“‘The Real Requires the Fantastic’: Teaching Comics, Race, and Medicine in the Era of Black Lives Matter”
special issue of Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies (forthcoming February 2024)
“Crip Time as Space: Drawing Chronic Illness in Julia Wertz’s The Infinite Wait and Other Stories“
Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, vol. 17, no. 2, 2023