Wednesday, November 9, 2016 at 5:00 p.m.

John Dewey Lounge, 325 Old Mill

Stanford W. Carpenter, PhD is the Chairman of the Board of the Institute for Comics Studies and on the Board for Pocket Con, an annual mini comic book convention for children focusing on diversity. Dr. Carpenter is a Cultural Anthropologist, Comic Artist, and former Archaeologist. His areas of research include Comics, Creative Teams and Laborers, Print and Broadcast Media Cultures, and the Production, Circulation, and Consumption Media. He is currently working on ethnographic monograph that looks at the construction of identity in comics from the perspective of comic book creators and a graphic novel based on a series of digital iPhone comics. He has taught courses in Anthropology, Comics, and Media Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Johns Hopkins University, Rhode Island School of Design, and University of Maryland College Park.