Joanna C. Davis-McElligatt

Previous Scheduled Teaching

Published Intellectual Contributions

Academic Roundtable

• Davis-McElligatt, J. (2020). "A Diary of Time Itself": An Academic Roundtable on Chris Ware's Rusty Brown.

Afterword

• Davis-McElligatt, J. (2022). Afterword. Reading Confederate Monuments. 255-259. Jackson, MS, University of Mississippi.

Book

• Davis-McElligatt, J., Butler, M., Feifer, M. (2022). Narrating History, Home, and Dyaspora: Critical Essays on Edwidge Danticat. 266. University of Mississippi Press.
• Davis-McElligatt, J., Khadka, S., Dorwick, K. (2019). Narratives of Marginalized Identities in Higher Education: Inside and Outside the Academy. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Narratives-of-Marginalized-Identities-in-Higher-Education-Inside-and-Outside/Khadka-Davis-McElligatt-Dorwick/p/book/9781138478787

Book Chapter

• Davis-McElligatt, J.C. (2023). Black Looking and Looking Black: African American Cartoon Aesthetic. The Cambridge Companion to the American Graphic Novel. 193-209. Cambridge UP.
• Davis-McElligatt, J. (2023). Toward a Pedagogy of Pain. The Affects of Pedagogy in Literary Studies. 119-210. Routledge.
• Davis-McElligatt, J.C. (2022). On Thingification: Faulkner and Afropessimism. The Cambridge Companion to New William Faulkner Studies. 166-182.
• Davis-McElligatt, J. (2022). Migration - Spotlight: Gayl Jones. Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South. 245-247. Routledge.
• Davis-McElligatt, J. (2021). Queering the Mammy: Southern Black Domestics and Revolutionary Mothering as Social Practice. Through Mama's Eyes: Unique Perspectives on Southern Matriarchy. 33-46. University of Louisiana Press.
• Davis-McElligatt, J. (2021). "Only the BLACK WOMAN can say": The Politics of Black Southern Womanhood in _A Voice from the South by a Black Woman from the South_. The Cambridge History of Literature of the U.S. South. Cambridge UP.
• Davis-McElligatt, J. (2019). On Being the First Black Woman. Narratives of Marginalized Identities in Higher Education: Inside and Outside the Academy. 42-54. Routledge.
• Davis-McElligatt, J. (2017). "Walk Together, Children!": The Intersections of Comics, History, and Memory in John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell's _March: Book One_. Comics for Children and Young Adults. 298-311. University of Mississippi Press.
• Davis-McElligatt, J. (2017). God Hates Fangs: _True Blood_, Black Queer Agency, and Appropriations of the History of Racial and Sexual Violence in the Deep South. Small Screen Souths: Interrogating the Televisual Archive. 99-114. Louisiana State University Press.
• Davis-McElligatt, J. (2014). Race, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Paule Marshall's _Brown Girl, Brownstones_, or How the Barbadian Became American. Critical Insights: The American Identity. 107-122. Salem Press.
• Davis-McElligatt, J., Roth, F. (2012). "The Words We Write for Ourselves": Confronting the Myths of Race, Education, and American Genius in _Finding Forrester_. The Pedagogy of Pop: Theoretical and Practical Strategies for Success. 61-80. Lexington Books.
• Davis-McElligatt, J. (2010). Confronting the Intersections of Race, Immigration, and Representation in Chris Ware's Comics. The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing is a Way of Thinking. 135-144. University of Mississippi Press.

Book Review

• Davis-McElligatt, J. (2020). Review of _Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement: Reframing History in Comics_, by Jorge J. Santos, Jr.. 4 (2) 237-239.
• Davis-McElligatt, J. (2020). Review of _Street Players: Black Pulp Fiction and the Making of a Literary Underground_, by Kinohi Nishikawa. Reception. 12 85-86.
• Davis-McElligatt, J. (2013). Review of _William Faulkner: Seeing Through the South_, by John T. Matthews. College Literature. 40 (1) 139-141.
• Davis-McElligatt, J. (2008). Review of _Disturbing Indians: The Archaeology of Southern History_, by Annette Trefzer. Midwest Modern Language Association Quarterly. 41 (2) 92-94.
• Davis-McElligatt, J. (2007). Review of _Locas: The Maggie and Hopey Stories_, by Jaime Hernandez. MELUS. 32 (2) 267-270.

Encyclopedia Article

• Davis-McElligatt, J. (2014). _King: A Comics Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr._, by Ho Che Anderson. Comics Through Time: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Graphic Narrative, Volume 4. 1591-1594. Greenwood Press.
• Davis-McElligatt, J. (2014). Art Spiegelman. Comics Through Time: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Graphic Narrative, Volume 2. 784-786. Greenwood Press.
• Davis-McElligatt, J. (2012). _Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron_, by Daniel Clowes. Critical Survey of Graphic Novels: Independents and Underground Classics. 486-488. Salem Press.
• Davis-McElligatt, J. (2010). Zadie Smith. Encyclopedia of Contemporary Fiction. 355-357. Gale Reference Library.

Illustrations

• Davis-McElligatt, J. (2020). Educating for Social Justice: Field Notes from Rural Communities. 10 Illustrations. Leiden, Boston, Brill / Sense.

Introduction

• Davis-McElligatt, J.C., Butler, M.L., Feifer, M. (2022). "Introduction". Narrating History, Home, and Dyaspora: Critical Essays on Edwidge Danticat.
• Davis-McElligatt, J., Khadka, S., Dorwick, K. (2018). Introduction to Narratives of Marginalized Identities in Higher Education: Inside and Outside the Academy. Narratives of Marginalized Identities in Higher Education: Inside and Outside the Academy. 1-16. Routledge.

Journal Article

• Davis-McElligatt, J. (2022). “And Now She Sings It: Conjure Healing as Abolitionist Alternative in Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing". Mississippi Quarterly. (74.1) 103-123.
• Davis-McElligatt, J. (2019). Hands Up, Don't Shoot: Teaching Black Lives Matter in Louisiana. south: a scholarly journal. 50 (2) 114-125.
• Davis-McElligatt, J. (2012). Body Schemas. The Comics Journal. http://www.tcj.com/body-schemas/

Literary Magazine

• Davis-McElligatt, J.C. (2023). Just Femme & Dandy Vol. 4: Survive.
• Davis-McElligatt, J.C. (2023). Just Femme & Dandy Vol. 5: Resurrect.
• Davis-McElligatt, J.C. (2022). Just Femme & Dandy Vol. 3: Sustain.
• Davis-McElligatt, J.C. (2022). Just Femme & Dandy Vol. 1: Rebirth.
• Davis-McElligatt, J. (2021). Just Femme & Dandy: The Inaugural Issue.

Poster

• Evans, S.A., Molina, L.N., Davis-McElligatt, J.C. (2022). Turning Ourselves Inside Out: Reading and Creating Graphic Medicine in Community. 2164-2165. 16th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS). https://2022.isls.org/proceedings/
• Evans, S.A., Molina, L.N., Davis-McElligatt, J.C. (2022). Using Graphic Medicine to Bring Underrepresented Voices Forward Through Public Library Health Literacy Programs. American Educational Research Association.

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Grant - Research

• Evans, S.A. (Principal), Davis-McElligatt, J. (Co-Principal), Champlin, S. (Co-Principal), Smith, D.L. (Co-Principal), Olness, G. (Co-Principal), "What Health Looks Like: Using Graphic Medicine to Bring Underrepresented Voices Forward Through Public Library Health Literacy Programs," sponsored by College of Information, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2020).
• Davis-McElligatt, J.C. (Co-Principal), "Interdisciplinary Study of Trauma and Memory in the United States," sponsored by Jagiellonian University, International, $42000 Funded. (2022 - 2024).
• Davis-McElligatt, J., "Scholarly and Creative Research Award," University of North Texas, $4800 Funded. (2020 - 2021).
• Davis-McElligatt, J., "Friends of the Humanities Research Grant," sponsored by Friends of Humanities, Local, $1000 Funded. (2015 - 2015).
• Davis-McElligatt, J., "University of Louisiana at Lafayette Summer Research Grant," sponsored by University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Other, $6800 Funded. (2012 - 2012).
• Davis-McElligatt, J., "John W. Hunt / William Faulkner Society Research Award," sponsored by The William Faulkner Society, International, $1500 Funded. (2009 - 2009).
• Davis-McElligatt, J., "Friends of the Humanities Research Grant," sponsored by Friends of Humanities, Local, Funded. (2015 - 2015).
• Davis-McElligatt, J., "John W. Hunt / William Faulkner Society Research Award," sponsored by The William Faulkner Society, International, Funded. (2009 - 2009).