MA Student Isabelle Martin awarded the 2019 Hillary Chute Award for Best Graduate Student Conference Presentation from the Graduate Student Caucus of the Comics Studies Society
Isabelle Martin has been awarded the 2019 Hillary Chute Award for Best Graduate Student Conference Presentation from the Graduate Student Caucus of the Comics Studies Society for her paper "'The Weight of Their Past': Reconstructing Memory and History through Reproduced Photographs in Thi Bui's Graphic Novel The Best We Could Do." This paper was presented at the 2018 Comics Arts Conference at San Diego Comic-Con.
The Graduate Student Caucus (GSC) of the Comics Studies Society is committed to encouraging finely-crafted and innovative comics scholarship by members of the graduate student community. To promote the writing and dissemination of such scholarship, the GSC awards the Hillary Chute Award for Best Graduate Student Conference Presentation. The award is named for Hillary Chute, whose pioneering work as a comics scholar paved the way for feminist and political readings of graphic memoir.