Description: The first critical volume on a crucial voice in comics
Brief description: Janine Utell is author of several books, most recently Literary Couples and 20th-Century Life Writing: Narrative and Intimacy, and editor of The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In, published by University Press of Mississippi, and Teaching Modernist Women's Writing in English. Utell serves as editor for "Orientations," a forum dedicated to queer and feminist modernist studies for Modernism/modernity. She also currently serves as president for the Modernist Studies Association.
Review Quotes: The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In sheds light on how the artist has shown LGBT and mainstream readers new ways to understand human connection. . . . Occasional jargon can be tough to digest, but the essays overall offer well-researched takes on this superlative comics artist, and identify fresh areas for future study.--Rosemary Booth "The Gay & Lesbian Review"