Elizabeth Allyn Woock

Elizabeth Allyn Woock
Palacký University Olomouc · Department of English and American Studies

PhD
Updated work on eallynwoock.com, projects at historyincomics.org, and research-based comics on scholarshipinshort.com

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Introduction
Current research: the visualization and ideation of medievalisms in comics. Interested in: further exploration into the ins and outs of academic comic production. @eallyn_woock, https://eallynwoock.com/, elizabethallyn.woock@upol.cz
Education
September 2016 - June 2020
Palacký University Olomouc
Field of study
  • English Literature
September 2016 - June 2020
Palacký University Olomouc
Field of study
  • English Literature
September 2013 - June 2016
Palacký University Olomouc
Field of study
  • History

Publications

Publications (12)
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Medievalist female characters appear with regularity in popular comics (such as Natasha Alterici’s Heathen) and their popularity leads them to be optioned for major TV series or movies (as Heathen has been). Though the Viking heroine of Heathen sports an ironically stereotypical ‘barbarian bikini’, inherited from Red Sonja and codified throu...
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As academic comics become more common in journals and more researchers are sharing methodologies for the production of academic comics, the appearance of the researcher's avatar in the illustrated article has become an accepted part of the practice. These comics show the researcher as an author, an illustrator, and even a narrative character in a g...
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This comic is the result of a practice-based approach to comics studies and comics-based research methodology. The aim was to explore the dynamics which occur when the author is visualized, or 'embodied,' on the graphic plane in a non-fiction or essayistic comic. The comic considers the use of the embodied author in data visualization, citation, fo...
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Page 4 includes: a general layout and stylistic reference to Chris Ware's illustrations, the dragon form of Nimona from the eponymous graphic novel (Noelle Stevenson, 2015), T.S. Elliot's opening from The Wasteland (1922), the "Put a Bird on It" schtick from the tv show Portlandia with Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein (S1 E2, 2011), Alan Moore's...
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This study examines how medievalist comics insist on their historical accuracy (implying that they represent authentic facts, rather than simulacra) and routinely present brutality and invisibility as linked with an authentic Middle Ages while also restricting fair representation to the world of fantasy. Witches and pagan magical beings are context...
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This article in comics form looks at an under-investigated phenomenon of nun characters appearing in contemporary comics as a unified trope. Appearing with a strong degree of uniformity, these stock characters share a unique costume, weaponry, repeated storylines, and most importantly, are couched in medievalism. To explain the development of these...
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The notion that Bishop Robert, personally, would be actively taking a stance against mendicants, or the Franciscans specifically on the issue of stigmata, seems contradictory to statements Robert made concerning stigmata and the utility of preachers in his own writings. The assumption that Robert was an antimendicant places blind faith in the credu...