Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature, published Outside the Box: Interviews with Contemporary Cartoonists (University of Chicago Press, 2014) and Comics and Media: A Critical Inquiry Book (University of Chicago Press, 2014), the latter of which she edited with Patrick Jagoda, Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature. She delivered a Distinguished Faculty Lecture at New York University with Alison Bechdel and organized WORDLESS!, an event with Art Spiegelman and Phillip Johnston, which was supported by UChicago’s Franke Institute for the Humanities, Humanities Visiting Committee, Arts Council, Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, and the Deputy Provost for the Arts. She also received a Chicago Course Connection grant from the UChicago Chicago Studies Program and curated 100 Butches, Pregnant Butch, and Stealth at the UChicago Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.