Contributors


   Sociology professor Paul Lopes (“Taking comics seriously”) studies art movements and how popular culture is transformed from the margins. The author of Demanding Respect: the Evolution of the American Comic Book and The Rise of a Jazz Art World, he teaches courses such as Media and Modern Society, American Popular Culture, and Sociology of Culture.
     

  Cartoonist Matt Madden (“Taking comics seriously”) teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. His recent work includes 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style; a translation (from French) of Aristophane’s The Zabîme Sisters; and Drawing Words & Writing Pictures and Mastering Comics, a textbook series collaboration with his wife, Jessica Abel. The couple are also series editors for The Best American Comics.
     

  Art history professor Elizabeth Marlowe (“Silent stones”) specializes in ancient and medieval art, art of ancient Rome, reuse of ancient monuments in modern contexts, and museums. Her paper on the Arch of Constantine led to her appearance in the History Channel’s “Secrets of Christianity” series. Her forthcoming book is Shaky Ground: Context, Connoisseurship and the History of Roman Art (Bloomsbury Academic Press).
     

  Writer and editor Ruthie Kott ’05 (“Ringside manner”) is the editor of Key Magazine in Chicago, where she enjoys being a tourist in her own city. Previously, she spent five years with the University of Chicago Magazine as a member of its award-winning team of staff writers. She has also contributed to the Chicago Tribune’s RedEye, CBS Chicago, Newcity, Eater Chicago, and Gapers Block.



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Volume XLl Number 4
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