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Mondays, 12:45 - 15:20 Radio-Television Center (TV), Room 186
1229 E 7th St, Bloomington, IN 47405-5501

Instructor: Associate Professor John A. Walsh, jawalsh@iu.edu.
Office Hours: Thursdays, 3:00pm - 5:00pm, schedule at https://fantastical.app/jawalsh-r1Wz/office-hours. Email to schedule an appointment outside those hours.

Associate Instructor: Sasha Goryl
Office Hours: Mondays, 10:00am - 12:00pm, and by appointment, either by zoom or in the ILS Department on the Second Floor of Luddy Hall (use Zoom link in Sasha’s Canvas profile)

Charles “Teenie” Harris. Girl reading “Mickey Mouse and the Submarine Pirates” comic book with small dog lying across her lap, inGeorge Harris’s confectionery store, 2121 Wylie Avenue, Hill District. 1947.

Schedule

• Week 1 (2025-02-03): Introductions
• Week 2 (2025-02-10): Fan studies
• Week 3 (2025-02-17): Comics culture
• Week 4 (2025-02-24): Fanzines and maker culture
• Week 5 (2025-03-03): Paratexts and fan mail
• Week 6 (2025-03-10): Comics in special collections and archives
  (Class will meet at the Lilly Library)
• Spring Break (2025-03-17): No Class.

• Week 7 (2025-03-24): Building a corpus

• Week 8 (2025-03-31): Text analysis
• Week 9 (2025-04-07): Text analysis lab
• Week 10 (2025-04-14): Data sets and visualization
• Week 11 (2025-04-21): Data visualization lab
• Week 12 (2025-04-28): Fans and Creators