How often do men think about ancient Rome? Quite frequently, it seems. washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023…

K-12 Educators who use comics in their teaching (or would like to)... BOLO for the application to participate! National Endowment for the Humanities San Diego State University SDSU Research "Center for Comics Studies Receives NEH Grant to Help K-12 Educators Learn to Teach Social Justice Through Comics" cal.sdsu.edu/news/comics-su…

Registration is now open for the 2024 SDSU Student Symposium! Any undergrad or graduate student with an SDSU mentor is encouraged to present their work! research.sdsu.edu/sdsu_student_s…

Before I share forthcoming spread in full (a rarity) in coming week, sharing again opening chapter to #nostos in its 15ft long, scroll form! Can be printed accordion-style or with page breaks in the book. Would so love to get this in people's hands. Someday... #unflattening 2

Prof. Charles Hatfield (Cal State Northridge) shares "Kids at War: Jack Kirby's Mythology of Boyness" on 8 November 2023, 4-530PM (LL430-431) San Diego State University. Supported by our National Endowment for the Humanities grant: "Building a Comics and Social Justice Curriculum." Join us!

Announcing @LibraryPassNews Comics Book Plus team has our first ever conference booth! Catch us at AASL with comics giveaways and a program featuring me, Betsy Gomez and Soline Holmes librarypass.com/2023/10/03/win…

Fancy new flyer with our Spring 2024 comics-focused courses! AFRAS475, ECL568 and RWS413 were each developed with support of our National Endowment for the Humanities "Building a Comics and Social Justice Curriculum" grant (2022-2024)

And for all of you non-San Diego State University learners out there who think these courses look exciting? You can actually enroll as a non-registered student! Learn more: ces.sdsu.edu/open-university. Reg info for OpenU SDSU Global Campus for Sp24 becomes available in mid-November.

Katie Sciurba, the San Diego State Universitycoe K-12 Lead on @SDSU's upcoming "Using Comics to Teach Social Justice" @nehgov institute in Summer 2024, talks about comics-creation with students at a local charter school fox5sandiego.com/thelocalistsd/…

Saw this and immediately thought of you, Nick Sousanis @nsousanis on all the socials fwiw

It’s ghost bingo today in HIST500 - Greek and Roman Magic San Diego State University All terms likely to come up in conversation grounded in the ancient source readings students have prepared for today’s class.

Can you help these Black women comics creators reach goal on their Kickstarter for Shook 2? Check out their story. Only hours to go! kpbs.org/news/arts-cult… Bradley Golden

In case you haven't heard, we're hosting an NEH Summer Institute for K-12 Teachers in 2024. Learn more about the program and application here: comics.sdsu.edu/neh-summer2024 (applications due on March 5, 11:59 p.m.)

Grace Dearborn: History Researcher and Comics Fan sdsu.edu/news/2024/02/h… So proud of our student researchers & faculty advisors! Congrats to Grace, her thesis advisor (Beth Pollard, Elizabeth A. Pollard, PhD), Gregory A. Daddis (#ColdWarComics course developer) & SDSU Library (esp. Pam Jackson)!

Some days you just need to take a walk at the beach… #SoSanDiego

Calling all San Diego State University students! Comics at SDSU is sponsoring a competition to create a one-page comic cover for Vol 7 of Splice (the undergrad research journal for CAL). Deadline is March 25. Submission via g-form linked to QR code. $250 for the winning cover.

SDSU Research For a preview of our new exhibit, “Rising Up: Depictions of Social Protest in Comics,” see this story, but come to the library for the full impact; you may encounter one of several Comics at SDSU courses using the exhibit as part of their course work (3/4) sdsu.edu/news/2024/03/e…

Hey, I know that Florida State University superstar - Emma Pollard: news.fsu.edu/student-stars/… Congrats to my niece, who ended up graduating with a degree in the field I left (chemical engineering) when I decided to pursue History. Somebody had to do it! Yay Emma!

A brief history of ✨The Casts of Pompeii✨ With thanks to Dr Sophie Hay

Some thoughts on when our angry political moment seeps into the writing of our history. Thanks to Los Angeles Review of Books for the opportunity to share.