Figure of the Teacher in Comics

David Lewkowich is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at University of Alberta, Canada.

• Chapter 1: Finding the figure of the teacher in comics.- Chapter 2: Dying and Exacting Revenge “On the Plane of Psychic Action”: From the Student’s Humiliation to the Teacher’s Death.- Chapter 3: On the Uses of Thought Bubbles: Materializing the Teacher’s Thinking Beyond the Façade of Surface Appearance.- Chapter 4: Emanata: On the Vast Spillage of Teacher’s Emotions in Comics.- Chapter 5: Identity Loss and The Origins of Superheroic Teachers in Comics.- Chapter 6: Passing, Covering, and Oscillations of the True and False Self: The Identity Management Strategies of Superheroic Teachers in Comics.- Chapter 7: Psychoanalytic Readings of the Double Life of Teaching and Not-Teaching: Spider-Man, Black Lightning, and Johnny Thunder.- Chapter 8: The Anxious Underworld of Teacher Education: Reading and Representing the School Dream in Comics Form.- Conclusion: The Complementary Uses of Dreams and Comics.