Reading in the Gutter
Reading in the Gutter (www.readinginthegutter.com) is a podcast that attempts to bridge the space between comics and education. We aim to have thoughtful discussion with students, teachers, parents, administrators, librarians, and researchers about comics and roles they can place in classrooms and other learning contexts. We seek to share research, resources, pedagogy, and curriculum focused on comics with interested stakeholders that is theoretically sound and empirically vetted.
Cover art by Dani Kachorsky
Reading in the Gutter
Reading and teaching 'El Deafo' with Dr. Sara Kersten Parrish (Part 1)
In this episode, the Reading in the Gutter team speaks with Dr. Sara Kersten Parrish about her experiences reading, teaching, and researching the Newbery Award-winning graphic novel El Deafo by CeCe Bell. Sara reflects on her identity as a deaf woman reading El Deafo for the first time as well as the pedagogical strategies that she used to support students' readings of the graphic novel. The team discusses other comics that include deaf characters and how ASL has is being represented in comics/graphic novels. This episode includes Part 1 of this discussion which will be picked up in Episode 3.
