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Allison Bannister

Postdoctoral Teaching Associate in English

Allison Bannister is a cartoonist and comics scholar, with an MFA in Cartoon Studies from the Center for Cartoon Studies and a PhD in Communication and Rhetoric from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her interests include multimodal storytelling, webcomics, art books, games, and the spaces where lines between media categories become blurred.

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Swann Foundation Library of Congress Fellowship Recipient, 2020

  • Bannister, Allison. “Book Review: Run, Book One.” EJournal of Public Affairs, vol. 10, no. 3, 2021. https://ejournalofpublicaffairs.org/book-review-run-book-one-by-john-lewis-andrew-aydin-l-fury-and-nate-powell/
  • Bannister, Allison. “A Fairytale Box ofThermochromic Fragments.”ImageTech:Comics and Materiality, special issue of ImageText, vol. 11, no. 3, 2020. imagetext.english.ufl.edu/ archives/v11_3/bannister/
  • Bannister, Allison. “Agency, Identity, Sex, Gender and Pokémon Go.” Well Played, vol. 6, no. 3, 2017, pp. 1-20. doi: 10.1184/R1/6687032

Related Schools & Departments

  • Education

    PhD in Communication and Rhetoric from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  • Contact

    a.bannister@northeastern.edu

  • Address

    035 Lake Hall
    360 Huntington Avenue
    Boston, MA 02115

  • Office Hours

    Tuesdays 10:00-11:30 and Wednesdays 2:00-3:30

  • Associations

    Comics Studies Society

Allison’s Colleagues

Nicole Aljoe

Professor of English and Africana Studies; Graduate Program Director
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Francis Blessington

Professor of English
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Erika Boeckeler

Associate Professor of English

Elizabeth Britt

Professor of English
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Ryan Cordell

Affiliated Associate Professor of English

Kathleen Coyne Kelly

Professor of English

Theo Davis

Chair and Professor of English
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Elizabeth Maddock Dillon

Distinguished Professor of English
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Julia Flanders

Professor of the Practice in English; Director, Digital Scholarship Group

Chris Gallagher

Professor of English

Gary Goshgarian

Professor Emeritus of English

Laura Green

Associate Dean of Teaching, Learning, and Experiential Education; Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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Carla Kaplan

Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature; Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Lori Lefkovitz

Ruderman Professor of Jewish Studies; Director of Jewish Studies Program; Professor of English
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Neal Lerner

Professor of English