*Listed in reverse chronological order*

Jackson, P. "Donna Barr: Independent Comics Visionary." Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, vol. 10, no. 2. 2026.

Jackson, P. "What the Loss of Already-Limited Federal Funding Means for Comics Studies in the US." Art Libraries Journal, vol. 50, no. 2/3. 2026. 

Lara, B. ​​"Where No Latina Has Gone Before: Race, Gender, and 'Nice Hispanic' Girl Imaginations in Star Trek." In the anthology Space, the Feminist Frontier: Essays on Sex and Gender in Star Trek. 2024.

Whitted, Q., Duncan, R., Jackson, P., Kelp-Stebbins, K., Kirtley, S., Pollard, E. Sousanis, N., & Worden, D. "Making the Case for Comics Studies: Program Directors Roundtable." Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, Volume 7, Issue 3. Fall 2023. 

Bailund, A., Holloway, S., Kuni, K., & Tomaras, D. "Reprints, reboots and retcons: Standardizing comics cataloging with the Best practices guide from the GNCRT." Art Libraries Journal, 48(3). 2023.

McClellan, Andrew M. "Lil Wayne, Imitatio, and the Poetics of Cannibalism." New Literary History 53, no. 1. 2022. 109-137. 

Jarmakani, A. "Rendering Absence in the War on Terror: Molly Crabapple’s Sequential Art," Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, vol 17, no. 1. March 2021. 131-136.

Howard, Y. "Ugly Differences: Queer Female Sexuality in the Underground." Hypatia 36, no. 4. 2021.

Howard, Y. "How Do We Hear Sexual Fluids as Sonic Difference in Comix?" The Middle Spaces Seeing Sounds/Hearing Pictures roundtable. 18 April 2019.

Penrose, W. "The Unwanted Gaze? Feminism and the Reception of the Amazons in Wonder Woman*" EuGeStA, no. 9. 2019.

Jackson, P. San Diego State University’s Speculative Fiction Collections: A Growing Center for the Study of Popular Culture. Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research, 5(1). Nov 2018. 56-65.

Nericcio, W. "The Masked Man in the Mirror: Seven Panels in Search of an Enigma Named Zorro in the Age of Latinx Emergency." Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities, 38:1. 2018. [Find the Full-text (SDSU Only)]

Howard, Y. "Unsuitable for Children? Adult-erated Age in Underground Graphic Narratives." American Literature 90.2. June 2018. 283–313. Special issue, "Queer about Comics." edited by Darieck Scott and Ramzi Fawaz.

Nericcio, W. "The Picasso of the Rio Grande Valley (Wait, or is that Foucault?): Pondering the Wickedly Ciphered, Frontera-Inflected Paintings of Izel Vargas, Artist/Painter & Television Kidnap Victim." in ASAP/Journal. The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP/Journal), is published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. 2.1. 2017. 187-201.

Culbertson, A. & Jackson, P. "Comics and the Modern Library Catalog: New Rules for Breaking the Rules." The Serials Librarian, Vol. 14, issue 3-4. 2016. Find Full–Text

Howard, Y. "Politically Incorrect, Visually Incorrect: Bitchy Butch’s Unapologetic Discrepancies in Lesbian Identity and Comic Art." Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 45, no. 1. Feb. 2012. pp. 79–98.

Nericcio, W. "Watching Critics, Watching Journalists, Watching Sheriffs, Watching Pee Wee Herman Watch: The Extraordinary Case of the Saturday Morning Children's Show Celebrity Who Masturbated." Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, 4. 2004. pp. 43-70.

Nericcio, W. "Autopsy of a Rat: Odd, Sundry Parables of Freddy Lopez, Speedy Gonzales, and Other Chicano/Latino Marionettes Prancing about Our First World Visual Emporium." Camera Obscura, 37. Jan 1996. pp. 189-237.

Nericcio, W. "Artif(r)acture: Virulent Pictures, Graphic Narrative and the Ideology of the Visual." Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, 28.4. Dec 1995. pp. 79-109.

*Listed in reverse chronological order*

Nericcio, William, and Frederick Luis Aldama, eds. Snapshots: Teaching Los Bros Hernandez. San Diego: Amatl Comix, (an imprint of San Diego State University Press, 2025).

Bailund, A., Holloway, S., Sussman, C., Tomaras, D. "From ‘Afrofuturist comics’ to ‘zombies in comics’: Inclusive comics cataloging from A to Z." In A. Billey, E. Nelson and R. Uhl (Eds.), Inclusive cataloging: histories, context, and reparative approaches (pp. 99-107) ALA Editions. (2024). 

Howard, Y. "Feminism" in Keywords for Comics Studies, edited by Ramzi Fawaz, Deborah Whaley, and Shelley Streeby (New York University Press, 2021). 97–101.

Howard, Y. "The Experimental Interiors of Alison Bechdel’s Are You My Mother?" in The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In, edited by Janine Utell (University Press of Mississippi, 2020). 135–146. 

Aldama, Frederick Luis & William Anthony Nericcio. Talking #browntv: Latinas and Latinos on the Screen. (The Ohio State University Press, 2019).

Howard, Y. "Politically Incorrect, Visually Incorrect," chapter on work by Roberta Gregory and Erika Lopez, 75 -101, in Ugly Differences: Queer Female Sexuality in the Underground (University of Illinois Press, 2018).

Culbertson, A. & Jackson, P. Agents of C.H.A.N.G.E.: Breaking Ground in Collaborative Pop Culture Curation. In Kristen Totleben and Lori Birrell (Ed.), Collaborating for Impact: Special Collections and Liaison Librarian Partnerships (Chicago: ACRL/ALA 2016) 101-112.

Nericcio, W. "A Latina/o Pop Quartet for the Ontologically Complex Smartphone Age: An Afterword," in The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Pop Culture (New York: Routledge, 2016).

Nericcio, W. "Tex[t]-Mex, Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America, 2.0: A Diary Chronicling the Transmogrifying Metamorphosis of a Neurosis from Book to Museum and on to the Internet" in Latinos and Narrative Media: Participation and Portrayal (Latino Pop Culture Series), edited by Frederick Aldama (Palgrave: New York, 2014) 91-109.

Nericcio, W. "Roland Barthes, Mojado, in Brownface: Chisme-laced Snapshots Documenting the Preposterous Claim that the Postmodern was Born Along the Borders of the Rio Grande River" in Performing in the United States Latina and Latino Borderlands, edited by Chela Sandoval, Peter J. García, & Arturo J. Aldama (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012) 165-91.

Nericcio, W. "How This Book Reads You: Looking Beyond New Horizons in the Analysis of World Narrative Fiction," in New Horizons in the Analysis of World Narrative Fiction, Frederick Aldama, editor (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011) 269-276.

Nericcio, W. Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America (Austin: The University of Texas Press, 2007).

Nericcio, W. "Reading / Drawing / Screening / Being: Gilbert Hernandez's Visual Biography of Frida Kahlo" in Latina/o Popular Cultureeds. Mary Romero, Michele Habell-Pallan and Jaime Cardenas (New York: New York University Press, 2002).

*Listed in reverse chronological order*

Pamela Jackson, Elizabeth Pollard, Van Tarpley, Conor McLaughlin "A Comics Reading Club… for Faculty!" at Comic-Con International, San Diego, CA (July 2026).

Elizabeth Pollard, Pamela Jackson, Laurence Grove, and Mary Stout, "Panels, Pages, and the Past: Using a Comics Archive to Teach Cultural and Historical Inquiry" at Comic Arts Conference at San Diego Comic-Con (July 2026).

Sara Roldan, "Invincible: The Price of Power and the Strength of Connection." Comic-Con International, San Diego, CA (July 23, 2026).

Mary Stout, Jeff Trexler, Moni Barrette, "What Now?!: Comics Censorship in Schools and Libraries," Comic-Con International, San Diego, CA (July 24, 2026).

Elena Blanco-Suárez and Audrey Hokoda, "Grogu's World: The Science Behind the Mandalorian" Comic-Con International, San Diego, CA (July, 2026).

Elizabeth Pollard, Pamela Jackson, Laurence Grove, and Mary Stout, "Collections and Pedagogy" at annual Comic Studies Society Conference, in Columbus, OH (June 2026).

Elizabeth Pollard, "History and Historiography in Comics about Ancient Rome" at Comics Studies Society Conference, in Columbus, Ohio (June 2026).

Elizabeth Pollard, "Magic and Witches at Disneyland" on theScience of Disneyland panel at WonderCon in Anaheim, CA (March 2026).

Elizabeth Pollard, Van Tarpley, Vincent Deighan (Frank Quitely), and Laurence Grove, "Comics in Many Forms" Comic-Con Museum, Roundtable (November 2025).

Elizabeth Pollard and Bradford Kirkegaard, "Wibbly-Wobbly Timey-Wimey: Religion and History in Doctor Who" Comic-Con Museum Panel, in San Diego, CA (October 2025) - Museum programming to complement the exhibition Doctor Who Worlds of Wonder: Where Science Meets Fiction.

Elizabeth Pollard, "Bronze Robots and Talking Skull Chatbots - Magic and AI in Greek and Roman Pop Culture" on Artificial Life in Comics and Popular Culture panel at Rose City Comic Con in Portland, OR (September 2025). 

Pamela Jackson, Lynette Mawhinne, William Nericcio, Tony Weaver Jr., Shamika Mitchell, "Banned In The U.S.A?! Freedom, Comics, And Education" at Comic-Con International, San Diego, CA (July 2025).

Pamela Jackson, Elizabeth Pollard, and James Thompson, "Unholy Trinity: Vampires, Witches and Ghosts in Comics," at San Diego Comic-Con (July 2025).

John Van Tarpley, Panelist, San Diego Comic-Con, Roundtable:  "Oh, Grow Up! Adulting in Anime and Manga." (July 2025.)

Floyd, J., Letamendi, D., Hicks, C., Dagnall, R., Hassing, D. "Andor: From Resistance to Rebellion." Comic-Con International, (July 24, 2025).

Law Sharma, Victoria Male, Marwa Abdalla, Dale Godboldo, Peter Guse, and Byrce Charles, "Nostalgia as a Double-Edged Sword." Comic-Con International, (July 24, 2025).

Decker, A., Mendez Gandica, B., Jones, L., Brown, A., Eric Leonardis, E., Riek, L. "The Evolution of AI through Film and in Reality." Comic-Con International, (July 25, 2025).

Munson, K., Nunez, A., Reiner, R., Green, D., Kenricks, N. "Comics Art Conference Session #9: Roundtable on My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book 2." Comic-Con International, (July 26, 2025).

Sillas-Navarro, B., Langley, T., Jordan, S., Roldan, S., San Juan, B., Joseph, K., Taiz, B. "I Want to Play a Game: A Deep Dive into Squid Game from a Psychologist’s Perspective." Comic-Con International, (July 26, 2025).

Alderson, J., Banegas, E., Connolly Miskwish, M., Orosco, L., Rodriguez, S., Shannon, J., Swogger, J. "Honoring the Kumeyaay Nation’s Past, Present, and Future Through Visual Storytelling." Comic-Con International, (July 26, 2025).

Cook, H., Brown, A., Gittens, A., Scott, A., Parker, M., Roldan, S. "Careers in Design, Tech, and Gaming: Lessons from the Pros." Comic-Con International, (July 27, 2025).

Andrew McClellan, "Batman’s Bookshelf: Reading theOdyssey in the Justice League TV Series." Celtic Conference in Classics Coimbra, Portugal. (July 15, 2025).

Elizabeth Pollard, "Witches and Torture in Pop Culture: A Historical Introduction toMark of the Devil(1970)," at FilmGeeks San Diego (April 2025).

Pamela Jackson, Elizabeth Pollard and Emily Schindler, "Comics and Social Justice at SDSU: Collections, Curriculum, and Community," at the bi-annual International Comic Arts Forum, San Diego State University (April 2025).

John Van Tarpley, Moderator, International Comic Arts Forum Conference, Panel:  "Crossroads of Conflict in Comics." (April 2025).

Walter Penrose and Mary Stout, "Amazons, Wonder Woman, and Superhero Feminism" panel as part of the Superheroes, Myth, and Us Lecture Series at the Comic-Con Museum (January 11, 2025).

Elizabeth Pollard, Alonso Nunez, and Emily Schindler, "Mythic Multiverses: From Antiquity to Today" Comic-Con Museum Panel, in San Diego, CA (January 2025) - Museum programming to complement the exhibition Myth of Superheroes 

Andrew McClellan, "Heroes and Villains: Origin Stories and Archetypes," Comic-Con Museum (January 2025).

Desmond Hassing, "Fighting Over the Translation: Erasing an Indian Princess as Evasion in Marvel’s King Conan #3." Indigenous Literatures and Cultures Panel III, Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association Conference. Palm Springs, California. (November 7th-10th, 2024).

Pamela Jackson, Elizabeth Pollard, and Jeremy Nicholas, "Comics in Academic Archives, Exhibits and Education" Plenary Address at the annual conference of the National Cartoonists Society in La Jolla, CA (August 2024).

Andrew McClellan, "Classics and Comics: A Deep Dive" Comic-Con Museum (August 2024).

Pamela Jackson and Elizabeth Pollard, "Creatures of the Night: Witches and Vampires in Comic Books" at San Diego Comic Fest (October 2024).

Elizabeth Pollard, "Adaptations of Roman History in Comic Books, Film, and beyond!" onAdaptations Outside the Panelpanel at Rose City Comic Con in Portland, OR (September 2024)

Elizabeth Pollard and Pamela Jackson, "Just Wrapped: K-12 Institute on ‘Using Comics to Teach Social Justice’" at San Diego Comic-Con International (July 2024).

Elizabeth Pollard, Pamela Jackson, Soljour, K., Dominguez, M., & Dearborn, G. "One for the [Comic] Books: A Curriculum Transformed," Comic Arts Conference at San Diego Comic-Con (July 2024).

Elizabeth Pollard and Pamela Jackson, "Social Justice Warriors Assemble - Workshop for a Comics & Social Justice Handbook" at the annual Comics Studies Society Conference (virtual, June 2024)

Jackson, P. and Gomez, R. "Comics in Higher Education: From Collections to Scholarship." LibraryPass Webinar. Moderated by Guy LeCharles Gonzalez. (May 22, 2024).

Deborah Tomaras and Alison Bailund, "Comics and fiction funnel." [Governance presentation]. PCC Joint Operations Committee Meeting, (Virtual. May 4th, 2024).

Desmond Hassing, "Setting Records for Erasure: Removing an Indian Princess from King Conan #3 to Maintain Cultural Dominance" Comic Arts Council Conference. Wonder-Con. Anaheim Convention Center. (March 29th-31st, 2024).

Jackson, P., Nunez, A., Thompson, J. & Stout, M. "Adapting Literary Works to Comics: From Classics Illustrated to Will Eisner to Today." Comic-Con Museum. (March 9, 2024)

John Van Tarpley, "Seeing Sound, Touch, Taste and Emotion: Comics and Human Perception" PCI Transformative Education STEAM Day. Presented to 10th-12th graders from under-resourced San Diego public schools, (November 2023).

Elizabeth Pollard, "Use and Mis-use of History in Comics" onAncient Aliens, Immortal Women, and Wicked Fey: A Comics History panel at Rose City Comic-Con in Portland, OR (September 2023).

Jackson, P., Pollard, E., Robb, J., Thacker, M. "Comics, Social Justice and Libraries: An Assessment of Need/Wants Nationwide." Comics Studies Society. Denton, TX and virtual. (July, 2023).

Betsy Gomez, Pamela Jackson, and Elizabeth Pollard, "Comics Change the World: Comics Activism Then to Now" American Library Association panel at San Diego Comic-Con (July 2023).

Pamela Jackson, Elizabeth Pollard, Karen Green and Moni Barrette, "Comics, Social Justice, and Libraries," at the Comics Arts Conference at San Diego Comic-Con International (July 2023).

Thompson, J., Santat, D., Castellucci, C. & Jackson, P. "The Comics Memoir: From the Beginning." Comic-Con, International. (July, 2023).

Jackson, P., Pollard, E., Kendricks, E. DeVega, G. (student), Qashat, F. (student), Rohde, B. (student), & Medina, B. (student). "Comics Pedagogy: Teaching Outside the Panel." Comic-Con, International. (July, 2023).

Elizabeth Pollard, Pamela Jackson, Kirtley, S., Langley, T., & Kelp-Stebbins, K. "Centers and Certificates: Comics Go to College,"at San Diego Comic-Con International (July 2023).

Elizabeth Pollard, "Agatha All Along: Bringing Witchy Back to the MCU" at the annual Comics Studies Society Conference, in Denton, TX (July 2023).

Elizabeth Pollard and Pamela Jackson, "Building Connected Community through Comics" at the Better Living through Comics Conference at Cambridge University, UK (July 2023)

Desmond Hassing, "Star Wars Andor: Making a Rebel, Making a Rebellion" Roundtable moderated by Star Warsologies Podcast. Friday, 7/21/23, Room 7AB. San Diego Comic-Con International, July 20-23rd, 2023.

Elizabeth Pollard, "A Historical Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: DC and EC Comics Go to Ancient Rome" for theComics as Global Historiography panel at the annual meeting of the World Historical Association (virtual, June 2023)

Elizabeth Pollard, "Sabine Women, Conniving War-Time Empresses, and a Martyr’s Voice - Comics about Rome and Roman Historiography" at  HistorioGRAPHICS - Framing the Past in Comics conference, Munich, Germany (May 2023)

Elizabeth Pollard and Pamela Jackson, "Building a Comics Curriculum that Inspires Change" with Pamela Jackson,  at the bi-annual International Comic Arts Forum in Vancouver, Canada (April 2023) 

Elizabeth Pollard, Amanda Lanthorne and T.J. Shevlin, "From Wall Paintings to Statues – Animation’s Ancient Past" on theCave Paintings to Comics: A Brief History of Animation panel at the Comic-Con Museum (February 25, 2023). See 2000-word illustrated blog.

Pamela Jackson, Lippert, A. & Alexander, P. Comics Collecting for Social Justice in Academic Libraries. (virtual, February 14, 2023).

Elizabeth Pollard,  "Re-Thinking Comics’ Periodization – Stone, Parchment, Fabric, and Glass Age?" at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Philadelphia, PA (January 2023).

Desmond Hassing, "A Call to Indian Inheritance: The Power of Peritexts in Golden Age Comic Books." Comics and Graphic Narratives Panel, Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association Conference, UCLA Luskin Conference Center and Hotel, (November 11-13, 2022).  

Desmond Hassing, "The American Fantasy Subject: The Claiming of an Indigenous Inheritance in Comic Book Peritexts, Lessons for Our Shared Future." The International Association for the Fantastical in the Arts (IAFA) Virtual Conference. (October 7-9, 2022). 

Elizabeth Pollard, "From Cuneiform to Comics (or) Gilgamesh and Enkidu – the OG Buddy Road Trip" on Fast Friends Road Trips & Comics Politics panel at Rose City Comic Con in Portland, OR (September 2022) .

Elizabeth Pollard, "Comics about, and Sequential Art from, Ancient Rome" at Representing History in/as Comics Conference (virtual) at Palacky University, Czech Republic (September 2022).

Desmond Hassing,"Blood in the Margins, the Indian Hiding in the In-Between Space: The American Western Identity Transmitted Through Peritexts" Comics Arts Council Conference, San Diego Comic-Con International, (July 21-24 2022). 

Alison Bailund, Boyd, K. "Crafting a comics Wikidata project." Comic Studies and Practices Symposium, University of San Diego, (Virtual. July 19, 2022).

Alison Bailund, Holloway, S., Kuni, K. "Review of best practices for cataloging comics and graphic novels." Comic Studies and Practices Symposium, University of San Diego, (Virtual July 18, 2022).

Alison Bailund, Chambliss, J., Klose, A., et al. "The Wiki-vengers initiative: A working session to develop best practices for comics Wikidata." LD4 Conference on Linked Data, (Virtual. July 13, 2022).

Frank Forte, Mike Catron, Pamela Jackson, Elizabeth Pollard, and Jordan Smith "Raising the Dead."CBLDF panel at San Diego Comic-Con (July 2022).

Nate Powell, Cecil Castellucci, Pamela Jackson, Elizabeth Pollard, and Jordan Smith, "Express Yourself: Activism Through the Comic Arts," Comic Book Legal Defense Fund panel at San Diego Comic-Con (July 2022).

Elizabeth Pollard, Pamela Jackson, Gregory Daddis and Jess Whatcott, "The Transformational Power of a Comics and Social Justice Curriculum" organizer and panelist at Comic Arts Conference at San Diego Comic-Con (July 2022).

Walter Penrose, "The Origins of Wonder Woman's Paradise Island," at the Wonder Woman for President 2022: 50 Years of Kick-Ass Feminism Conference (Virtual, June 10, 2022).

Elizabeth Pollard, Sydney Heifler and James Thompson, "Romance Comics, Witches, and the Comics Code Authority of 1954," at San Diego Comic Fest (April 2022).

Elizabeth Pollard, "Digging Up Fear – Archaeology in 1950s Horror Comics" at San Diego Comic Fest (April 2022).

Jackson, P., Pollard, E., Nericcio, W., Kendricks, N. & Qashat, F. "Comics@SDSU: Transforming Campus Collaboration." Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association Annual Conference. (April 2022).

Stout, M., Heid, D., Miller, S., Naumann, J. & Tracy Edmunds. "Teaching Comics Literacy." WonderCon (2022).

Thompson, J., Hatfield, C., Dooley, M. & Jackson, P. "The Future of Days Past: Eisner Awards as Comics Historiography." WonderCon (2022).

Pamela Jackson and Elizabeth Pollard, "Comics@SDSU - Transforming Campus Culture with Pamela Jackson," at the Annual Meeting of the Pop Culture Association (virtual, April 2022).

Estrada, J., Jackson, P., Thompson, J., Nunez, A. "And Now for Something Completely Different: Expanding the Comics Medium." Comic-Con Museum. (March 2022). 

Stout, M., Gomez, B., Jennings, J. "The Eye of Eisner: Looking at Us Through His Lens." Comic-Con Museum. (March 2022). 

Mary Stout, "Words and Pictures Together: Using Will Eisner's Work and Other Comics in the Classroom." Comic-Con Museum. (March 2022).

Elizabeth Pollard, "Teaching the Long View of Comics over Time (> 25,000 years)" at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA) in New Orleans, LA (January 2022).

Elizabeth Pollard, "Archaeology in 1950s Horror Comics" for the San Diego Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (Fall 2021).

Estrada, J., Jackson, P., Thompson, J., Nunez, A., & Jones, K. "Eisner Judging Panel." Comic-Con International Special Edition. (November 27, 2021).

Pollard, E., Jackson, P., Nericcio, W., Kenricks, N. & Qashat, F. "Comics and Social Justice at SDSU." Comic Arts Conference at Comic-Con International Special Edition. (Nov 2021).

Gomez, B., Jackson, P., Pollard, E. & Smith, J. CBLDF: "Civic Engagement and Comics." Comic-Con International Special Edition. (Nov 2021).

Katin, M., Pollard, E. & Jackson, P. "Drawing Through Trauma: Holocaust Memory and Graphic Novels - Miriam Katin." Holocaust Living History Workshop, UC San Diego, Virtual. (Nov 2021).

Elizabeth Pollard,  "Punching Romans" on Punching Nazis - Fighting Fascism in Comics panel at Rose City Comic Con in Portland, OR (September 2021).

Pollard, E., Rhett, M., Abrams, L., and Knoblach, K. "Punching Nazis: Fighting Fascism in Comics." Rose City Comic-Con. (September 2021).

Pollard, E., Lach, P. and Jackson, P. "Collaborating to Build a Digital Timeline of Social Justice in Comics at SDSU." Digital Pedagogy Institute. (August 2021).

Brown, A. (director and producer), Diggs, J., Hopkinson, N., Womack, Y., Gomez, J., Thomas, S., Howard, L. "Afrofuturism: Black to the Future 4 (the Ladies)." Comic-Con, International. (July 2021).

Elizabeth Pollard,  "Ancient Witches, Silver & Bronze Age Comics, and the Feminine Mystique" at San Diego Comic Fest (March 2020).

Pollard, E., Rhett, M., Abrams, L., and Knoblach, K. "Comics as / in / of / History," Michigan State University Comics Forum. (February 2021)

Pollard, E., Jackson P., P. Nunez, A., Rhett, M., Abrams, L., and Knoblach, K. "Comics, World History, and the Classroom," Under the Baobab session for the World History Association. (December 2020).

Pollard, E., Jackson, P. Nunez, A., Childers-Lopez, V. & Jarocki, Z. "One Book San Diego Book Club: They Called Us Enemy by George Takei." 2020 Virtual SDSU Family Week. (October, 2020).

Hernandez, J., Barajas, H., Andes, S., Restrepo, L., Nericcio, W. "Creating Authentic Storyworlds: Latinx Representation in Comics." Virtual Mid City Micro-Con, Baton Rouge, LA. (Aug, 2020).

Jackson, P., Barrette, M., Klemen, A., & Magbanua, E. "The Library Panel." San Diego Comic Fest, San Diego, CA. (March, 2020).

Nericcio, W. Penrose, W., & Pollard, E. "Wonder Woman, Witches and the Feminine Mystique." San Diego Comic Fest, San Diego, CA. (March, 2020).

Jackson, P. "Collection Care and Preservation." San Diego Comic Fest, San Diego, CA. (March, 2020).

Pollard, E. "From Magica de Spell to Wanda Maximoff: Exploring Witches in Comics," at the Annual Meeting of the World History Association in Puerto Rico. (June, 2019).

Howard, Y. "Holding Lines: Comics Confront AIDS." Queers & Comics, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY (May 2019).

Pollard, E. "A Deep History of Witches in Popular Culture," Keynote lecture for Witches Night at the San Diego Comic Con Museum. (April, 2019).

Jackson, P., Nunez, A., Magbanua, E., Klemen, A. & Barrette, M. "Graphic Novels In Libraries." San Diego Comic Fest, San Diego, CA. (March, 2019).

Jackson, P., Bennett, A., Robbins, T., Estrada, J., Mars, L., Yeh, P. & Friedrich, M. "Friends of Lulu: 1990s Feminism in Comics." San Diego Comic Fest, San Diego, CA. (March, 2019).

Pollard, E. "Projections of Fear: Cinematic Spell-casting and Witches’ Sabbaths in Global Perspective," at the California, Northwest, Hawaii World History Association Meeting, UC, Berkeley. (February, 2019).

Jackson, P. "Comics and Critical Librarianship." Comic Arts Conference at Comic-Con International, San Diego, CA. (July, 2018)

Jackson, P., Nericcio, W. & Dominguez, C. "The Origin of Amatl Comics and Claudia Dominguez's More Than Money." San Diego Comic Fest, San Diego, CA. (April, 2018).

Howard, Y. "Listening to Sexualities of Difference in Underground Comix." American Studies Association, Chicago, IL (November, 2017).

Howard, Y. "Queering the Money Shot." Chair, Queer and Trans Female Sexuality in Comics panel. Queers & Comics , California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA (April, 2017)

Jackson, P. & Culbertson, A. "Freebies, Fanzines and Foam Chainsaw: Preserving Southern California Fan Culture." Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, San Diego, CA. (March, 2017).

Howard, Y. "The Pornographic Aesthetics of Fluidity in Comix." Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA (January 2017).

Jackson, P., Nunez, A., Flynn, A., Leitner, S., Mitchell, C. & Wynns, P. "Making Comics Accessible for All." Comic-Con International, San Diego, CA. (July, 2016)

Culbertson, A. & Jackson, P. "New Modes of Popular Culture Curation, or, My Life As Concierge of a Comics Flop House." Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Seattle, WA. (2016).

Culbertson, A. & Jackson, P. "NSFW: Sexually-Explicit Comics in Academic Libraries." Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, New Orleans, LA. (2015)

Howard, Y. "Teaching Queer Bodies and Sexualities with Alternative Comix." Chair, Pedagogical and Theoretical Approaches to Queer Comics panel. Queers & Comics, CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies, The Graduate Center, CUNY. New York, NY (May, 2015)

Jackson, P., Culbertson, A., Lapins, M., Stapko, K., Tumlin, M. & Weston, W. "It's Alive!: Comics and the Arts Visibility Initiative at SDSU" Comic Arts Conference, Comic-Con, San Diego, CA. (2014).

Jackson, P. & Culbertson, A. "Embracing Graphic Content: Comics and Science Fiction in Academic Libraries." Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Chicago, IL.  (April, 2014). 

Jackson, P., Tumlin, M., Weston, W. & Culbertson, A. "I Like My Books With Pictures: Comics in Academic Libraries, the SDSU Way." San Diego Comic Fest, San Diego, CA. (October, 2013).

Jackson, P., Culbertson, A., Tumlin, M. & Weston, W. "Preserving Comic-Con's Cultural History: The Richard Alf Collection and The Comic-Con Kids." Comic Arts Conference, Comic-Con, San Diego, CA. (July, 2013).

Howard, Y. "Informal Contentions: Comix and Queer Nihilism." Sites of Visual and Textual Innovation. International Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels. Instituto Franklin, Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain (November 2011).

Howard, Y. Erratic Erotics: Analog - Sexualities - Mortalities, Andy Warhol Arts Writers Grant for 2026.

E. Pollard and Jackson, P. Building A Comics And Social Justice Curriculum At SDSU. NEH's Humanities Initiatives at Hispanic-Serving Institutions. $149,998.

Jackson, P. and E. Pollard. Building Capacity for Research and Teaching with Comics and Graphic Art. Institute of Museum and Library Service (IMLS) Forum Grant. $149,305

Jackson, P. The Comic-Con Kids: Finding and Defining Fandom. Funded by Cal Humanities, an independent non-profit state partner of the National Endowment of the Humanities.

Neil Kendricks and Neil Shigley, with SDSU students, Word Balloons.
https://libguides.sdsu.edu/c.php?g=409672&p=9456758 and https://www.blurb.com/b/10270814-word-balloons-volume-15.

Elizabeth Pollard, guest on the Women of Marvel Podcast - Scarlet Witch: It’s Complicated (2022). 

Tarpley, J. Curriculum Designer, Prison Arts Collective.Created a four-lesson "Introduction to Comics" curriculum for use in an arts enrichment program for incarcerated adults, (2022).

Elizabeth Pollard, guest on the Women of Marvel Podcast - The Magic of Marvel: Witches in Marvel and History (2021). 

Hassing, D. "On the Trail of the Comic Book Indian." Public facing historical exhibition of components of theIndigenous People Reading Room. San Diego State University, Love Library. (November – December 2021).

Anson, April, et al. Against the Ecofascist Creep, a comic and web resource for stemming the creep of ecofascist logic in our everyday lives (including the Marvel Universe!) April Anson is now Assistant Professor of English at University of Connecticut, [email protected] and april-anson.com (2024).

Brown, A. Straight Outta Freemanville, a comic inspired by the 1993 Black western film, Posse. 2019

Dearborn, Grace. "Shocking Tales of Domesticity in EC Comics and the Code That Altered Them." Splice 7, Spring 2024 (2024): 89–108. Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Pollard

Gugel, Taylor. "Women in country: War comic portrayals of women during the Vietnam War." Master's thesis, San Diego State University, Summer 2024. Faculty Mentors: Gregory Daddis and Elizabeth Pollard

Ariizumi, Alexa, Paloma Burner, Lucky Dasari, Lukas Fuster, Cassandra Jordan, Bradley Medina, Natalia Paredes, Christopher Reynoso, and Breanna ''Nana'' Rohde, "When Comic-Book Worlds Collide: The Sequential Art of Word Balloons in Pacific Review," Student Comics Exhibition 2023
Faculty Mentors: Neil Kendricks and Neil Shigley

Dearborn, Grace. "Strictly Entertaining: An Analysis of Depictions of American Domesticity in Entertaining Comics, 1947-1956." Senior Thesis, San Diego State University, 2023-2024. Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Pollard

Frohoff, Elizabeth. "Cowboys, commies & the Cold War: US Empire and the myth of benevolent conquest." Master's thesis, San Diego State University, 2023. Faculty Mentor: David Cline

Jones, Leeann. "Research Project: An Interpretation of Comic Art within 19th Century Britain." Adobe Express, 2023. Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Pollard

Mollet, John Michael. "Beyond code-talkers: Decoding popular symbolism of the Native American soldier." Master's thesis, San Diego State University, Spring 2023. Faculty Mentor: David Cline

Parks, Da Quanisha. "#EnvironmentalJustice.Now," Research Award for Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice at SDSU Student Research Symposium (2023). Faculty Mentor: Kishauna Soljour

DeVega, Grace. "Sound of Comics | Sound of Comics." 2022. Faculty Mentors: Pamela Jackson and Elizabeth Pollard

Hassing, Desmond. The National Indian Project: A Bibliography of American Indian, Indigenous, and Pacific Islander Representations in DC/National Comic Books 1938-1975 American Indian Studies, Master of Arts (M.A.) Thesis, San Diego State University 2017. Faculty Mentor: David Kamper

Hassing, Desmond. “The Child Assimilation Agenda: The Connections between Federal Indian Policy and Indian Representations in DC Comics” at SDSU Student Research Symposium. Faculty Mentor: David Kamper

Risi, Angela. “The Politics of ‘Representation’ In Underground Queer Comics” at SDSU Student Research Symposium 2016. Faculty Mentor: Yetta Howard
*Winner 2016 Library Award*

Gonzalez, Lorena. Reclaiming Space: How Women are Using Autobiographical Comics to Resist Microaggressions Within the Comic Book Fan Community. Women’s Studies, Master of Arts (M.A.) Thesis, San Diego State University, 2015. Faculty Mentors: Irene Lara (Advisor), Yetta Howard and Anh Hua (committee members)

Valdez, Jonathan Areola. "Unmasking Identities: Superhero Representations of Asian Americans in Graphic Narratives." Master’s thesis, San Diego State University, Summer 2013. Faculty Mentor: William Nericcio