Susan Kirtley, Ph.D

About the Author

Susan E. Kirtley is the Professor of English and Director of Comics Studies at Portland State University. She is the author of the Eisner-winning Lynda Barry: Girlhood Through the Looking Glass and coeditor of With Great Power Comes Great Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, and Comics. Her book Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips was the 2022 Charles Hatfield Prizewinner for the best book in Comics Studies. She is currently the editor of Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society. She lives in Portland, OR.

Nhora Lucía Serrano is the Director of Academic Technology, Teaching, and Research Services at Hamilton College. She is the guest editor of Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society special issue “Inked Latinidades: Latinx/e Voices and Narrativas en Viñetas” (Vol. 9, Issue 3, Fall 2025), which includes her authored introduction and peer-reviewed scholarly essay, “Drawn from Clay: Mexican Cerámica, Material Culture, and Bilingual Visual Modernism in Gus Arriola’s Gordo.” She curated the bilingual exhibit “Depicting Mexico and Modernism: Gordo by/de Gus Arriola” (2024) at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, The Ohio State University Libraries. Serrano is also the editor of Immigrants and Comics: Graphic Spaces of Remembrance, Transaction, and Mimesis, coeditor of the Wilfrid Laurier University Press book series Crossing Lines: Transcultural/Transnational Comics Studies, and coeditor of Curious Collectors, Collected Curiosities: An Interdisciplinary Study. Her essays have appeared in The Oxford Handbook of Comic Studies, MLA Approaches to Teaching Orhan Pamuk, MLA Approaches to Teaching Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, X-Tra Contemporary Art Quarterly, Museological Review, and other publications. She lives in Clinton, NY.