Filial Lines

Emmy Waldman is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Miami, where she works in contemporary graphic narrative and Jewish American literature. Formerly, she was a visiting assistant professor of modern and contemporary literature at Virginia Tech. She earned her Ph.D. in English from Harvard, with a focus in graphic narrative and comics. Her research and writing appear in Twentieth-Century Literature, Post45, New Literary History, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, among others.

• Introduction; Part I. Art Spiegelman: 1. Boxes; 2. Spirals; 3. Tic-Tac-Toe; Part II. Alison Bechdel: 4. Mirrors; 5. Webs; Braided Rivers, an Epilogue on Tessa Hulls; References; Endnotes.

'Emmy Waldman is hands-down brilliant. It is a rare pleasure to read such a work of scholarship: surprising, elegant, lively, conceptually rich. Filial Lines bursts with knowledge and provocative turns, inviting the reader along a fascinating journey into form, aesthetics, and relationality.' Hillary Chute, author of Why Comics? From Underground to Everywhere