Dr. Rachel Kunert-Graf

know-it-all: lover of books, writing professor and comics scholar. she/her 🌹

[Dr. Rachel Kunert-Graf @r_graf]

#MLA2024 conference goers and Philly residents,
On Friday, January 5 from 7-9pm, the Comics and Graphic Narratives Forum will be hosting a free event with artist Ben Passmore at Partners and Son, local underground comics and art gallery.

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

A huge international crowd came out of nowhere, bringing thousands more to the March on Washington.

“From Palestine to the Philippines, stop the U.S. war machine!”

“From Palestine to Mexico, border walls have got to go!”

“From Palestine to Puerto Rico, occupation is illegal!”

[Peter Beinart @PeterBeinart]

These activists don't represent most Jews. Neither did the Jews who went to Mississippi for Freedom Summer. Neither did the Jews who joined the ANC. People who demand justice when they have the luxury of indifference are rarely representative. That's why we remember their courage

[Leah Misemer @lsmisemer]

CFPs now up for #ComicsStudies and Graphic Narratives Forum at #mla2024. @QianaWhitted & I are organizing a panel on how comics bans, challenges, & censorship have shaped comics cultures. Panels on biopolitics (attn #GraphicMedicine) & Spanish comics, too: https://t.co/iW12KZ1YdA

[day’ve @cooldavidblaine]

Philadelphians are yelling GO BIRDS instead of “present” at jury duty roll call rn

[Dr. Rachel Kunert-Graf @r_graf]

First conference since Covid-19. I had forgotten how uncomfortable the chairs are. #MLA2023

[Dr. Rachel Kunert-Graf @r_graf]

Two years of remote teaching in the pandemic have been a reprieve from worrying that any day could be the day a school shooting happens in my classroom. What normal are we returning to?

[Anna F Peppard, PhD @peppard_anna]

Hugest congrats to all the Eisner nominees for Best Academic/Scholarly Work! 🎉 Some great books in there. But also, here's a (by no means exhaustive) list of fab books from 2021 written/edited/co-edited by women & non-binary scholars that did not get nominated. #ComicsStudies

[Keri Blakinger @keribla]

Are we still calling it Mother's Day or is it now just Domestic Infant Supplier Day?

[Dr. Rachel Kunert-Graf @r_graf]

How exactly are these to be enjoyed with well fitting masks?

[Dr. Rachel Kunert-Graf @r_graf]

@linds_mpg As your colleague, I’m here to tell you to stop working sick.

[Dr. Rachel Kunert-Graf @r_graf]

@Micah_Bateman The raven

[Dr. Rachel Kunert-Graf @r_graf]

@IAmJoshKopin Married to a husband and still say partner the majority of the time. It’s a code switching thing. In some contexts the traditional carries value to leverage, in others it just rings of patriarchy

[Suzy Exposito @HexPositive]

Resist the impulse to side with power because it’s intellectually less demanding

[✡️ Never Again Action ✡️ @NeverAgainActn]

Today we all wish an unhappy birthday to ICE, created 18 years ago today.

May it be their last 🙏

[Dr. Rachel Kunert-Graf @r_graf]

@guttergeek Collaboration is probably the only way anyone is going to get any scholarship done when all the 2-2 tenure positions with research sabbaticals disappear

[Matt Dowell @dowellml]

Some students *need* asynchronous and some students prefer synchronous so the vast, vast majority of classes are synchronous because the college student as “customer” is a monolith founded in an erasure of difference.

[Mairéad Lynn @maireadlynn]

I'm so tired of emails, slacks, zooms, phone calls, etc. I just want to walk into someone's office unannounced, plop down, ask them a question, brainstorm on something unrelated, chit chat for a while, then walk out completely forgetting why I stopped by in the first place.

[Dr. Rachel Kunert-Graf @r_graf]

Since I've been learning and teaching about code-meshing, I'm making a conscious efforts to embrace my Jewish codes, which I realize I've worked hard to unlearn.