Hillary L. Chute: Disaster Drawn

Comics scholar and Visiting Professor in the Harvard University English Department Hillary L. Chute discusses her 2016 book, Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form. In hard-hitting accounts of Auschwitz, Bosnia, Palestine, and Hiroshima’s Ground Zero, comics display a stunning capacity to bear witness to trauma. Investigating how hand-drawn comics have come of age as a serious medium for engaging history, Disaster Drawn explores the ways graphic narratives by diverse artists document the disasters of war.
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[@ClarenceDass]

What a great talk. Thank you very much. I immediately ordered the Disaster Drawn book after watching this. I'm looking forward to diving deeper into the topic.

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Hillary Chute is an American literary scholar and an expert on comics and graphic narratives. She is Professor of English and Art + Design at Northeastern University.[1] She was formerly Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Chicago and an Associate Faculty member of the University’s Department of Visual Arts, as well as a Visiting Professor at Harvard University.[2][3] She was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows from 2007 to 2010.[4]