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2024 &c.
Li'l update: reveries of a lush year in a troubled land
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Ellen Kirkpatrick

December 2023

Moving Days
death is not always the end
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Ellen Kirkpatrick

October 2023

Our Libraries, Our Cure
In her 2018 performance Nanette, comedian Hannah Gadsby is clear about the transformative, connective, and healing power of storytelling; stories, she…
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Ellen Kirkpatrick
Scrolling Through the Pain of Others:
Losing Sight of the Firebrand Art of Seeing
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Ellen Kirkpatrick
Stories That Snatch Us Up: A Tale of Two Storytellers and Reflections on the Paradox of Story
Part Two: Zebediah Killgrave, Master Storyteller ("Alias")
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Ellen Kirkpatrick

September 2023

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Recovering the Radical Promise of Superheroes: Un/Making Worlds
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Ellen Kirkpatrick

August 2023

Stories That Snatch Us Up: A Tale of Two Storytellers and Reflections on the Paradox of Story
Part One: Survivor Storytelling and Jessica Jones ("Alias")
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Ellen Kirkpatrick

June 2023

Cosplay, Academia, and Me—Some Thoughts, and a Note on the Future
Here, I talk about the increasing corporatisation of academia and its wide-ranging impact on knowledge creation, dissemination, and preservation, as…
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Ellen Kirkpatrick

May 2023

George Floyd and the Urgent Matter of Changing the World
The Radical Power of Bystander Footage, Monument Activism, and Effective Movement Building
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Ellen Kirkpatrick
“You need to learn to see yourself through the Fathers’ eyes”
Feminism, Representation, and the Dystopian Space of Bitch Planet
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Ellen Kirkpatrick

March 2023

Academia & Me
Introducing a Scholarly Archive and Future Plans
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Ellen Kirkpatrick
Cosplay: An Introductory Essay
from Keywords for Comics Studies (NYU Press, 2021)
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Ellen Kirkpatrick
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