Teaching Graphic Novels in the English Classroom

1. Introduction. - 2. Not Just Novels: The Pedagogical Possibilities of the Graphic Narrative. - 3. Understanding Rhetoric, Understanding Genre: A Rhetorical Genre Studies Approached Writing Course. - 4. Writing Through Comics. - 5. Teaching the History and Theory of American Comics: 20th Century Graphic Novels as a Complex Literary Genre. - 6. What is the use of a book without pictures of conversations? : Incorporating the Graphic Novel into the University Curriculum. - 7. Does Doctor Manhattan Think? : Alan Moore s The Watchmen and `Great Books Curriculum in the Early College Setting. - 8. If He Be Mr. Hyde, We Shall Be Mr. See : Using Graphic Novels, Comic Books, and the Visual Narrative in the Gothic Literature Classroom. - 9. Teaching March in the Borderlands Between Social Justice and Pop Culture. - 10. Revising the Rhetoric of `Boat People Through the Interactive Graphic Adaptation of Nam Le s The Boat . - 11. Performative Pedagogies and Performative Texts: Alison Bechdel s Fun Home as Compositional Model.