The level of English in some of those abstracts is so low I can't even be certain what is being argued! Ah language barriers. Would've loved to meet all the people--including you, of course!--behind them, though...and I doubt that'll be happening any time soon. T_T
Okay, feedback (just on the basis of your abstract, obviously, unless you wanna send me your whole paper, hint hint) for you to take or leave as you like: (Don't hate me! I'm not trying to be provocative!) This might be a cultural difference (says the Ugly American), but "Comics Studies" doesn't sound like a real academic discipline to me. How many degree-granting departments of "Comics Studies" are there in the world, and do they look set to reproduce further across the academy? Maybe some scholars like playing in their own little sealed-off world, but as far as I'm concerned even the "big" disciplines--Sociology, Communication, Anthropology, Asian Studies--can be incestuous, too isolated from other disciplines and the non-academic public at large. Maybe instead of proposing/outlining some hyper-specialized new discipline, you could instead talk about how your ongoing research cuts across disciplines and puts them in dialogue with each other?
At least for me, one of the biggest ongoing challenges of my academic career is convincing other people in my chosen discipline(s) that I'm "one of them." And accomplishing this is *critical* if I'm to get my degree and a job afterward. Don't get trapped between a rock and a hard place! So maybe save the creation of new disciplines till after becoming a full professor?
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Okay, feedback (just on the basis of your abstract, obviously, unless you wanna send me your whole paper, hint hint) for you to take or leave as you like:
(Don't hate me! I'm not trying to be provocative!)
This might be a cultural difference (says the Ugly American), but "Comics Studies" doesn't sound like a real academic discipline to me. How many degree-granting departments of "Comics Studies" are there in the world, and do they look set to reproduce further across the academy? Maybe some scholars like playing in their own little sealed-off world, but as far as I'm concerned even the "big" disciplines--Sociology, Communication, Anthropology, Asian Studies--can be incestuous, too isolated from other disciplines and the non-academic public at large. Maybe instead of proposing/outlining some hyper-specialized new discipline, you could instead talk about how your ongoing research cuts across disciplines and puts them in dialogue with each other?
At least for me, one of the biggest ongoing challenges of my academic career is convincing other people in my chosen discipline(s) that I'm "one of them." And accomplishing this is *critical* if I'm to get my degree and a job afterward. Don't get trapped between a rock and a hard place! So maybe save the creation of new disciplines till after becoming a full professor?