Wright, David N.
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Person Preferred Name
David Wright _none
Position
Faculty Member
Field of Activity
Teaching media
Aesthetic practices of Modernist writers
Digital Humanities
Comic books and the Superhero
Burlesque performance
Comics scholarship
Department
Status
Past Faculty member
Affiliation Date
2003 to 2024
Identifier (Other)
dwright
Education and Credentials
BA (Hons),(Concordia University)
MA, (Concordia University)
PhD (McGill University)
Editor of Graphixia, A Conversation about Comics http://www.graphixia.ca
Member / Writer of The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship http://www.comicsgrid.com/
Faculty member 2003-2024.
Current research is focused in three main areas: Establishing methodologies for emerging trends in the digital humanities. In particular the pedagogical applications of digital technologies, the intersection of coding and writing, digital literature and the implications of "open source," and facilitating spaces for the digital dissemination of academic work. An examination of burlesque performance and its relationship to the aesthetic practices of modernist writers. Focussing on a a diverse range of early Twentieth Century practitioners in a variety of media, but spending the most time on E. E. Cummings, Hart Crane, George Herriman, Gilbert Seldes, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and Djuna Barnes. Comic books and their role in shaping cultural narratives (particularly those around masculinity), and how comic books offer a way of understanding narrative as it responds to external political and social pressures.
BA (Hons),(Concordia University)
MA, (Concordia University)
PhD (McGill University)
Editor of Graphixia, A Conversation about Comics http://www.graphixia.ca
Member / Writer of The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship http://www.comicsgrid.com/
Faculty member 2003-2024.
Current research is focused in three main areas: Establishing methodologies for emerging trends in the digital humanities. In particular the pedagogical applications of digital technologies, the intersection of coding and writing, digital literature and the implications of "open source," and facilitating spaces for the digital dissemination of academic work. An examination of burlesque performance and its relationship to the aesthetic practices of modernist writers. Focussing on a a diverse range of early Twentieth Century practitioners in a variety of media, but spending the most time on E. E. Cummings, Hart Crane, George Herriman, Gilbert Seldes, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and Djuna Barnes. Comic books and their role in shaping cultural narratives (particularly those around masculinity), and how comic books offer a way of understanding narrative as it responds to external political and social pressures.
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