This collection highlights the diverse ways comics and graphic novels are used in English and
literature classrooms whether to develop critical thinking or writing skills paired with a
more traditional text or as literature in their own right. From fictional stories to
non-fiction works such as biography memoir history or critical textbooks graphic narratives
provide students a new way to look at the course material and the world around them. Graphic
novels have been widely and successfully incorporated into composition and creative writing
classes introductory literature surveys and upper-level literature seminars and present
unique opportunities for engaging students' multiple literacies and critical thinking skills
as well as providing a way to connect to the terminology and theoretical framework of the
larger disciplines of rhetoric writing and literature.
