We are excited at SLCC to host the 2009 TYCA conference. Here are the basics on the conference:
Title: “Point and Counterpoint: Converging Fugues within Composition and Community”
Dates: October 9-10, 2009
Proposals Due: July 1, 2009
See attached for more details: CFP: TYCA West 2009
**Please forward the CFP to any individuals or institutions who might be interested
September 6, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Proposal Submission
Levia Hayes
College of Southern Nevada
levia.hayes@csn.edu
702-271-0782
Single Paper/Classroom Practice 30 – 40 minutes.
Comic Books and Visual Literature: Superpower or Kryptonite
An examination of ways in which comic books and graphic novels might be explored in terms of their unique and complicated interplay of word and image. A semiotic exploration of the exceptional literary contribution of comic books and graphic novels that can take place in our college classrooms as we embrace this not-so-new literary form. Visual literacy has been a valued rhetorical method since the early cave paintings, and has become a modern day sleeping giant in the bookstore and library in the form of graphic novels and comic books. Will this unusual genre take its place in the literary canon of the 21st century?