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Elizabeth Allyn Woock

Palacký University Olomouc


Elizabeth Allyn Woock is an assistant professor at the Department of English and American Studies at Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic. Her current research centers on the visualization and ideation of history in comics. Her other projects include further exploration into the ins and outs of creating research comics and academic comics, and the application of comics-based research and arts-based research in the social sciences. She is particularly interested in composing comics as a research practice. She currently serves as an assistant editor at the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics , as the International Liaison for the International Society for the Study of Medievalism, and as a member of her faculty’s Research Ethics Committee. You can see more information at eallynwoock.com, follow long-term research projects at historyincomics.org and view single-panel research comics on scholarshipinshort.com.

 

Comics are great for both public science communication and formal research writing

They are an exciting tool to enable deeper writing and thinking.

C-S Publications

Medieval Spaces in Comics: Affect and Ideology, (Palgrave Macmillan: 2024)

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-66493-9


"The Medievalist Simulacra of Kafka's The Castle in Graphic Adaptations" in Medievalisms in a Global Age. Eds Angela Jane Weisl and Robert Squillace (Boydell & Brewer: 2024).

https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781843847038/medievalisms-in-a-global-age/


“Rubric and Metrics for Peer Reviewing Research Comics”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship Vol. 13 No. 1 (2023).

https://www.comicsgrid.com/article/id/10179/

Into C-S

Conference: Comprehending Comics: Exploring Methodologies and Approaches to Comic Studies in History and the Social Sciences. Co-organized with Amy Matthewson. September 8-9, 2024.

https://www.historyincomics.org/conferences-and-workshops/


Considering the Publication Cycle of Research Comics. 2024. Conference Paper. Third International Conference of Scuola Democratica. Cagliari, Italy. 03-06.06.2024. 


Questioning Signifiers of Authenticity in Medieval Comics for Pedagogical Use. 2024. Conference Paper. 59th International Congress on Medieval Studies Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, Michigan. 09.05.2024-11.05.2025


Better Teaching through Comics. 2023. Conference Paper. Better Living Through Comics The 2023 Joint Conference of the International Graphic Novel & Comics and the International Bande Dessinée Society. Cambridge, UK.  03-07.07.2023  

  

Medieval warfare as aesthetic hyperobject in comics. 2023. Historiographics: Framing the Past in Comics International Conference. Munich, Germany. 15.-16.06.2023.  

  

Peer review for research comics. 2023. 9th Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference. Trento, Italy. 07.-10.06. 2023.