Qiana Whitted
@qianawhitted.bsky.social
I write and teach about comic books and Black literature at University of South Carolina. Eisner winner. Here for good comics, romance fiction, horror films, sci-fi anything. HU ‘96 💙⚓️
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Look at this cool collection of comics with @benpassmore.bsky.social Ebony Flowers, and others. With an intro by @qianawhitted.bsky.social www.shenandoahliterary.org/74-1-2/#comi...
Volume 74, Numbers 1 & 2
Shenandoah has been publishing great writing for 75 years. Located at Washington and Lee University, the magazine is part of the English Department and is a tool used to teach students the art and cra...
www.shenandoahliterary.org
September 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Look at this cool collection of comics with @benpassmore.bsky.social Ebony Flowers, and others. With an intro by @qianawhitted.bsky.social www.shenandoahliterary.org/74-1-2/#comi...
Congratulations!
#SDCC25 The Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work goes to DRAWING (IN) THE FEMININE: BANDE DESSINÉE AND WOMEN edited by Margaret C. Flinn, published by Ohio State University Press
July 26, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Congratulations!
Rutgers is having a summer sale! And Carol’s essay on early Black comics readers is SO GOOD
You can get a copy of Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American #Comics, edited by @qianawhitted.bsky.social and containing essays by lots of great people (including me!) for 50% off. Use code RSUMMER50 and order directly from @rutgersupress.bsky.social
Desegregating Comics - Rutgers University Press
Some comics fans view the industry’s Golden Age (1930s-1950s) as a challenging time when it comes to representations of race, an era when the few Black cha...
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org
May 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Rutgers is having a summer sale! And Carol’s essay on early Black comics readers is SO GOOD
Really looking forward to getting a copy of this book. Congrats Pat and Jorge!
Out of the Gutters is out of the box. That is, it came in a box and I took it out. But the book is here! It was amazing to work with Jorge Santos and all our exceptional contributors, as well as the incomparable @utexaspress.bsky.social
utpress.utexas.edu/9781477331804/
utpress.utexas.edu/9781477331804/
Out of the Gutters
Comics have long been a subject of moral panics, no doubt thanks to their in-your-face illustrations and their association with young readers. Indeed, the p...
utpress.utexas.edu
May 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Really looking forward to getting a copy of this book. Congrats Pat and Jorge!
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Every single thing on this page that isn’t a human figure (or object) is lettering.
My work on FALL THROUGH is nominated for the “Best Lettering” Eisner Award this year— please consider voting for me in this category. Thank you for your support! www.comic-con.org/awards/eisne...
My work on FALL THROUGH is nominated for the “Best Lettering” Eisner Award this year— please consider voting for me in this category. Thank you for your support! www.comic-con.org/awards/eisne...
May 21, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Every single thing on this page that isn’t a human figure (or object) is lettering.
My work on FALL THROUGH is nominated for the “Best Lettering” Eisner Award this year— please consider voting for me in this category. Thank you for your support! www.comic-con.org/awards/eisne...
My work on FALL THROUGH is nominated for the “Best Lettering” Eisner Award this year— please consider voting for me in this category. Thank you for your support! www.comic-con.org/awards/eisne...
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vote for the homie.
Big big big congratulations to @btrcp.bsky.social for their EISNER AWARD NOMINATION! UM Volume One has been nominated for Best Graphic Album-Reprint! www.comic-con.org/awards/eisne...
May 15, 2025 at 9:59 PM
vote for the homie.
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JUST STOPPING BY TO REMIND FOLKS IRONHEART DEBUTS ON DISNEY+ JUNE 24 AND IS WRITTEN BY A BLACK WOMAN CHINAKA HODGE (not Ryan Coogler)
May 15, 2025 at 11:43 PM
JUST STOPPING BY TO REMIND FOLKS IRONHEART DEBUTS ON DISNEY+ JUNE 24 AND IS WRITTEN BY A BLACK WOMAN CHINAKA HODGE (not Ryan Coogler)
An incredible comic - very happy to see this one nominated!!!
Honored to be nominated for an Eisner along with @marcuskwame.com and @struble.bsky.social for BIG JIM AND THE WHITE BOY from Ten Speed Graphic.
May 16, 2025 at 2:03 AM
An incredible comic - very happy to see this one nominated!!!
So excited to see that @inkscomicsjournal.bsky.social has been nominated for an #Eisner award!!! Congrats to Susan Kirtley and the entire editorial team!
May 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
So excited to see that @inkscomicsjournal.bsky.social has been nominated for an #Eisner award!!! Congrats to Susan Kirtley and the entire editorial team!
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Today ALA released the highly anticipated Top 10 Most Challenged Books List as part of the 2025 State of America’s Libraries Report.
www.ala.org/bbooks
www.ala.org/bbooks
April 7, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Today ALA released the highly anticipated Top 10 Most Challenged Books List as part of the 2025 State of America’s Libraries Report.
www.ala.org/bbooks
www.ala.org/bbooks
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Andy Diggle & Enrique Breccia, Swamp Thing #1 (2004)
April 1, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Andy Diggle & Enrique Breccia, Swamp Thing #1 (2004)
I'm co-organizing a panel proposal on "Adaptation & Opposition Through Comics" for MLA 2026 in Toronto! Abstracts due by March 15: bit.ly/MLA2026comicsadaptation
March 3, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I'm co-organizing a panel proposal on "Adaptation & Opposition Through Comics" for MLA 2026 in Toronto! Abstracts due by March 15: bit.ly/MLA2026comicsadaptation
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For Black History Month: last year I compiled a bib of sources re to Black youth's experiences in reading #comics (1930 - 1965). This work accompanied my essay on the same topic in @qianawhitted.bsky.social book Desegregating Comics. More here: caroltilley.net/2023/04/blac...
February 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
For Black History Month: last year I compiled a bib of sources re to Black youth's experiences in reading #comics (1930 - 1965). This work accompanied my essay on the same topic in @qianawhitted.bsky.social book Desegregating Comics. More here: caroltilley.net/2023/04/blac...
If you also have friends and family who received the “fork in the road” offer, this piece from Lawfare is a good explainer: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/brea...
Breaking Down OPM’s ‘Fork in the Road’ Email to Federal Workers
Though the subject line borrows a phrase from Musk’s Twitter email, the federal government is not a private company, and its HR policies are arcane and legally binding.
www.lawfaremedia.org
January 31, 2025 at 12:40 PM
If you also have friends and family who received the “fork in the road” offer, this piece from Lawfare is a good explainer: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/brea...
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CFP: Canadian Comics. Abstracts due 3/15. 🇨🇦
January 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
CFP: Canadian Comics. Abstracts due 3/15. 🇨🇦
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RIP Jules Feiffer, 1929-2025. A true legend.
January 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
RIP Jules Feiffer, 1929-2025. A true legend.
I spent way too much time paused on this badly photoshopped newspaper #Severance
January 19, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I spent way too much time paused on this badly photoshopped newspaper #Severance
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so i took @robertaman.bsky.social and lars wallner's textbook TEACHING WITH COMICS, which is a survey of what teachers of comics have learned about the medium and its readers rather than an instruction manual for graphica in the classroom, and tried to find the answers everyone else is in pursuit of
Critical Thinking: The problem (with comics)
Critical Thinking inquires: can the TEACHING WITH COMICS academic textbook clear up today's comic book issues?
www.comicsbeat.com
January 7, 2025 at 11:31 PM
so i took @robertaman.bsky.social and lars wallner's textbook TEACHING WITH COMICS, which is a survey of what teachers of comics have learned about the medium and its readers rather than an instruction manual for graphica in the classroom, and tried to find the answers everyone else is in pursuit of
I’m glad they’re taking their time. We’ll wait 😊
December 15, 2024 at 6:37 PM
I’m glad they’re taking their time. We’ll wait 😊
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It also features a roundtable conversation about the ongoing impact and importance of @rawreader.bsky.social’s seminal essay on Black fandom journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw... with me, Faithe Day, @mediadataequity.bsky.social, @andrecarrington.bsky.social, and Sascha Buchanan.
View of African American acafandom and other strangers: New genealogies of fan studies
| Transformative Works and Cultures
journal.transformativeworks.org
December 15, 2024 at 12:37 PM
It also features a roundtable conversation about the ongoing impact and importance of @rawreader.bsky.social’s seminal essay on Black fandom journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw... with me, Faithe Day, @mediadataequity.bsky.social, @andrecarrington.bsky.social, and Sascha Buchanan.
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Meet the next generation of the Sangerye family. Bitter Root: the Next Movement drops in spring 2025!
December 12, 2024 at 6:59 PM
Meet the next generation of the Sangerye family. Bitter Root: the Next Movement drops in spring 2025!
December 12, 2024 at 4:35 PM
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Applications are now being accepted for Postdoctoral Research Fellows at the USC Center for Civil Rights History & Culture. Excited to see this program being launched! For more info: civilrights.sc.edu/postdocs/
November 25, 2024 at 9:28 PM
Applications are now being accepted for Postdoctoral Research Fellows at the USC Center for Civil Rights History & Culture. Excited to see this program being launched! For more info: civilrights.sc.edu/postdocs/
I remember working in Waldenbooks when many of these novels started appearing on the shelves. Can’t wait to listen!
I'm proud of the podcast I made with my friend Nicole this year- you should listen! One thing I keep thinking about- romance publishers saw a competitor begin to have success reaching Black readers and they thought "nah, we'd rather half ass it and leave money on the table." blackromancehistory.com
Black Romance Has A History
blackromancehistory.com
December 11, 2024 at 11:57 PM
I remember working in Waldenbooks when many of these novels started appearing on the shelves. Can’t wait to listen!
Looking forward to it! #MLA25
#MLA25
#academia
#comicsstudies
Come to our special session on Women in the early history of comics! We'll have the brilliant @qianawhitted.bsky.social as moderator, and a fabulous roster of presenters 🥳
#academia
#comicsstudies
Come to our special session on Women in the early history of comics! We'll have the brilliant @qianawhitted.bsky.social as moderator, and a fabulous roster of presenters 🥳
December 11, 2024 at 11:38 AM
Looking forward to it! #MLA25