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DESCRIPTION:The Center for Biographical Research presents: / “Graphic Energy: Comics, Ecology, and the Politics of Extraction”/ Jeffrey Mather, Associate Professor in English, City University of Hong Kong / This talk focuses on graphic narrative as a form that maps connections between energy infrastructures, ecology, and experience. Through a discussion of two contemporary texts that depict industrial resource extraction in Canada – Joe Sacco’s Paying the Land (2020) and Sarah Beaton’s Ducks (2022) – I show how the form of comics can offer slow readings of extractive processes as narratives of historical and ecological violence that take place within overlapping networks of power. While discussing these works in relation to critical studies of comics, documentary, and autobiography, this paper will also draw on work related to petrocultures and the visibility/invisibility of resource-making and energy extraction in contemporary culture \n / Jeffrey Mather is an associate professor in the Department of English. His research focuses on literary critical approaches to travel writing, China/West literary studies, and explorations of transculturality and mobility in life writing and graphic narrative. His book Twentieth-Century Literary Encounters in China: Modernism, Travel, and Form (2020) examines anglophone writing on China and Asia through autobiographical and literary forms.  / Cosponsored by / Date / Kuykendall 410 / 12PM to 1:15PM HST\n
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SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-us:Brown Bag Biography with Jeffrey Mather 
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