Holding the book "Narratives of Nostalgia and Repair in American Comics and Literature" by Aanchal Vij in front of a meadow with blue flowers

Book 2) is Aanchal Vij's analysis of #nostalgia & repair in 20th-21st c #AmericanLiterature & #comics - with a focus on #traumatheory & #DisabilityStudies & the myth of American exceptionalism in works by Chabon, Spiegelman, Roth, Alan Moore & Ta-Nehisi Coates

#ComicsStudies #LiteraryStudies

#ACLA2025 explore how African literature redefines trauma through animism—linking self, ancestors, and ecosystems. Forthcoming in 8/25, ANIMIST POETICS is a bold revision of psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory through Indigenous ecologies. #LookItUP tinyurl.com/yc6tbb69
#AfricanLit #TraumaTheory

I enjoyed giving a presentation and chatting with fellow academics in #Afghanistan and #Iran this morning. Thank you Dr. Nasir Arian for arranging and hosting the event. #traumatheory #literature tedmorrissey.blog/.../trauma-t...

@muira_mccammon idea! Chat w @ABezusko about using #traumatheory to read for pauses/absences in #Guantanamo research.