JARED GARDNER Department of English 70 Erie Road Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio 43214 Columbus, Ohio 43210 (614) 323-6267 [email protected] jaredgardner.org EDUCATION Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University, English and American Literature, 1995 M.A. The Johns Hopkins University, English and American Literature, 1991 B.A. Amherst College, English Literature, 1987, summa cum laude DISSERTATION “Alien Nation: The Literature of American Race, 1787-1845” Directors: Walter Benn Michaels and Larzer Ziff TEACHING EXPERIENCE • Ohio State University, Professor (2012-present), Associate Professor (2001-2012), Assistant Professor (1999-2001) • Visiting Professor, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany (2011) • Grinnell College, Assistant Professor (1994-99) • Johns Hopkins University, Instructor (1992-94) PUBLISHED & CURATED WORK • Monographs Projections: Comics and the History of 21st-century Storytelling (Stanford University Press, 2012) The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture (University of Illinois Press, 2012; paper edition, 2014) Master Plots: Race and the Founding of an American Literature 1787-1845 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998; paper edition, 2000) updated 1/8/18 Gardner/2 • Edited Volumes The Comics of Charles Schulz: The Good Grief of Modern Life, with Ian Gordon (University Press of Mississippi, 2017) Drawing the Line: Comics Studies and Inks, 1994-1997, with Lucy Shelton Caswell (Ohio State University Press, 2017) Edgar Allan Poe: A Case Study in Critical Controversy, with Elizabeth Hewitt (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2015) Skippy Vol. 3: Complete Dailies 1931-1933, with Dean Mullaney (Library of American Comics/ IDW, 2014) Library of American Comics Essentials Volume 2: The Gumps & The Saga of Mary Gold (Library of American Comics/ IDW, 2013) Skippy Vol. 2: Complete Dailies 1928-1930, with Dean Mullaney (Library of American Comics/ IDW, 2013) Skippy Vol. 1: Complete Dailies 1925-1927, with Dean Mullaney (Library of American Comics/ IDW, 2012) “Graphic Narratives and Narrative Theory," special issue, with David Herman, SubStance 40. 1 (2011) “Periodical Comics and Cartoons,” special issue, with Lucy Shelton Caswell, American Periodicals 17.2 (2007) ‘Scenes of My Infint-hood’: Celebrating the Birth of Krazy Kat, with Jenny Robb (Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, 2010) • Curated Exhibits Co-curator, with Caitlin McGurk, “Cartoon Couture,” The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, November 4, 2017 – April 21, 2018. Co-Curator, with Jenny Robb, “Looking Backward, Looking Forward: U.S. Immigration in Cartoons and Comics,” The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, November 4, 2017 – April 21, 2018. Co-curator, with Caitlin McGurk, “Wordless: The Collection of David A. Beronä,” The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, February 13 – May 22, 2016. Co-curator, with Jenny Robb, “The Long March: Civil Rights in Cartoons and Comics,” The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, August 16 – November 30, 2014. Co-curator, with Caitlin McGurk, “Will Eisner: 75 Years of Graphic Storytelling,” The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, August 16 – November 30, 2014. Co-curator, with Jenny Robb, “‘Scenes of My Infint-hood’: Celebrating the Birth of Krazy Kat,” The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, September 7-December 3, 2010. Gardner/3 Co-curator, with Jenny Robb, “To Be Continued: Comic Strip Storytelling,” The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, June 18-August 24, 2007. • Editorial Positions Editor, Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, 2016- Co-editor, with Lucy Caswell, Studies in Comics and Cartoons, book series, Ohio State University Press, 2011- Contributing Editor, Library of American Comics, 2012- Co-editor, American Periodicals: A Journal of History, Criticism, & Bibliography, 2003- 10 Assistant Editor, ELH, 1991-92 • Essays “Percy Crosby: A Life. Chapter IV,” in Skippy Vol. 4: Complete Dailies 1934-1936 (Library of American Comics/ IDW, 2018) “Take Two: The Ethics of Diagnosing in Swallow Me Whole,” AMA Journal of Ethics (forthcoming, 2018) “Magazines to 1820," in Oxford History of Popular Print Culture Volume 5: U.S. Popular Print Culture to 1860, edited by Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray (Oxford University Press, forthcoming) “Introduction: O’Malley’s Lower Frequencies,” Crockett Johnson’s Barnaby, Volume Four (1948-1949) (Fantagraphics, forthcoming) “Echoes,” in Walt Disney’s Donald Duck: “The Black Pearls of Tabu Yama” (Fantagraphics, forthcoming) “Transmedial Narratives in the Age of Mixed Media,” Narrative Culture 4.1 (2017) “Before the Underground: Jay Lynch, Art Spiegelman, Skip Williamson and the Fanzine Culture of the Early 1960s,” Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society 1.1 (2017) “Back to Long Ago,” Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge: "The Lost Crown of Genghis Khan" (Fantagraphics, 2017) “Antebellum Popular Serialities and the Transatlantic Birth of ‘American’ Comics,” Media of Serial Narrative, Ed. Frank Kelleter (Ohio State University Press, 2017) “Serial / Simultaneous,” Time: A Vocabulary of the Present, Ed. Joel Burges and Amy J. Elias (NYU Press, 2016) “The Terror of the Beagle Boys,” Walt Disney's Donald Duck: "Terror of the Beagle Boys" (Fantagraphics, 2016) Gardner/4 “Time under Siege,” The Comics of Joe Sacco, Ed. Daniel Worden (University Press of Mississippi, 2015) “The 1920s: Developing a Sophisticated Language of Comics,” in King of the Comics: One Hundred Years of King Features Syndicate, Ed. Dean Mullaney (Library of American Comics/ IDW, 2015) “Trick or Treat,” Walt Disney's Donald Duck: "Trick Or Treat" (Fantagraphics, 2015) “The Early American Magazine,” Introduction to Spring 2015 “Just Teach One,” Common- Place (2015) “And Let the Dance Commence,” Introduction to Library of American Comics Essentials Volume 6: Baron Bean, 1917 (Library of American Comics/ IDW, 2015) “Film + Comics: A Multimodal Romance in the Age of Transmedial Convergence,” in Storyworlds Across Media, ed. Marie-Laure Ryan and Jan-Noël Thon (University of Nebraska, 2014) “The Serial Novel,” in Oxford History of the Novel in English, Vol. 6: The American Novel 1870-1940, ed. Priscilla Wald and Michael A. Elliott (Oxford University Press, 2014) “Percy Crosby: A Life. Chapter III: 1931-1933,” in Skippy Vol. 3: Complete Dailies 1931- 1933 (Library of American Comics/ IDW, 2014) “Rip van Donald,” in Walt Disney's Donald Duck: "Trail Of The Unicorn" (Fantagraphics, 2014) “Heirloom Watch” & “A Campaign of Note,” in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge: "The Seven Cities of Gold" (Fantagraphics, 2014) “Percy Crosby: A Life. Chapter II: 1923-1930,” in Skippy Vol. 2: Complete Dailies 1928- 1930 (Library of American Comics/ IDW, 2013) “Mangas et immigration,” Cases départ: 1913-2013, un siècle d’immigration dans la bande dessinée (Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration, 2013) “Sidney Smith’s Open Road,” Library of American Comics Essentials Volume 2: The Gumps & the Saga of Mary Gold (Library of American Comics/ IDW, 2013) “Christmas on Bear Mountain” and “The Masters of Melody,” in Walt Disney's Donald Duck: "Christmas On Bear Mountain" (Fantagraphics, 2013) “Gladstone Returns” and “Wired,” in Walt Disney's Donald Duck: "The Old Castle Secret" (Fantagraphics, 2013) Gardner/5 “A History of the Narrative Comic Strip,” in From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels: Contributions to the Theory and History of Graphic Narrative, Eds. Daniel Stein and Jan-Noël Thon (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013) “Of Barons, Dukes, & New World Aristocrats,” Library of American Comics Essentials Volume 1: Baron Bean, 1916 (Library of American Comics/ IDW, 2012) “Percy Crosby: A Life. Chapter I: 1891-1923,” in Skippy Vol. 1: Complete Dailies 1925- 1927 (Library of American Comics/ IDW, 2012) "Gladstone's Terrible Secret" & "Spending Money," in Carl Barks, Walt Disney's Donald Duck: “A Christmas for Shacktown,” (Fantagraphics, 2012) “Introduction: The American King,” Cartoon Monarch: Otto Soglow and the Little King (Library of American Comics/ IDW, 2012). “Only a Poor Old Man” and “Soupline Eight,” in Carl Barks, Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge: "Only a Poor Old Man" (Fantagraphics, 2012). “The Other Guys,” in "Corpse on the Imjin" and Other Stories, by Harvey Kurtzman, edited by Gary Groth (Fantagraphics, 2012) “Serial Killers: The Crime Comics of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips,” Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 59.1 (2011): 55-70. “Toyland,” “Voodoo Hoodoo,” and “Tunnel Vision,” in Carl Barks, Walt Disney's Donald Duck: "Lost in the Andes" (Fantagraphics, 2011). “Susanna Rowson’s Periodical Career,” Studies in American Fiction 38.1 (2011). “The Graphic Novel,” Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Novel and Novel Theory, ed. Peter Logan (Blackwell, 2011) “Storylines,” SubStance 40.1 (2011) “Introduction,” with David Herman, SubStance 40.1 (2011) “Becoming Krazy,” in‘Scenes of My Infint-hood’: Celebrating the Birth of Krazy Kat (Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, 2010) “Same Difference: Graphic Alterity in the Work of Gene Luen Yang, Adrian Tomine, and Derek Kirk Kim,” in Approaches to Multicultural Comics: From Zap! to Blue Beetle, edited by Frederick Luis Aldama (University of Texas Press, 2010) “Fanny Fern and the New York Ledger,” American Periodicals 20.1 (Spring 2010) “Percy Crosby and Skippy,” The Comics Journal 298 (May 2009) "Peter Greenaway's Suitcase Cinema & New Media Archeology," Studies in Gardner/6 European Cinema 5.2 (2008) “Barney Google: The Early Years, 1919-1923,” The Comics Journal 294 (December 2008) “The Loud Silence of F. M. Howarth’s Early Comic Strips,"