BRIAN CREMINS
Courses Taught:
English 101
English 102
Literature 115: Fiction (Comic Books and Graphic Novels)
Background:
PhD, University of Connecticut, 2004
MA, University of Connecticut, 1997
BA, Dartmouth College, 1995
Academic Interests:
African American Literature
African American Film
Graphic Novels, Comic Books, and Comic Art
Recent Publications:
“Voivod.” Roctober #43 (Fall 2006):
42-44.
“Jack Kirby’s Midnight Masterpiece.” The
Jack Kirby Collector #44 (Fall 2005):
24-26.
“The Night Dee Dee Ramone Nearly Died,”
Roctober #39 (Winter 2004): 58-59
“'I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)':
Tim Truman’s Scout and Social Satire
in the Independent Comics of the 1980s."
The International Journal of Comic Art
5.2 (Fall 2003): 339–350.
"Oscar Micheaux, Charles Chesnutt, and
the 'Historical Novel.'" Journal of
American and Comparative Cultures 25.1–2
(Spring/Summer 2002): 155–160.
"'Why have you allowed me to see you without
your mask?': Captain America #133
and the Great American (Protest) Novel."
The International Journal of Comic Art
4.1 (Spring 2002): 239–47.
Selected Conference Papers/Presentations:
"'Automatic Writing for the Common Man':
Walt Kelly's Vision of the South in Pogo,"
The International Comic Arts Forum, The
School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
October 15, 2009.
"Family Systems Theory, Metaphor, and Autobiography
in John Porcellino's Perfect Example,"
Popular Culture/American Culture Association
Conference, New Orleans, April 2009.
Malcolm X College African American History
Month Film Festival: Oscar Micheaux’s 1938
Musical Swing! (presentation and
lecture, February 6, 2008)
“Oscar Micheaux's Afro-Modernist Detective Novels and his Revision of the Pulp Fictions of the
1930s,” a talk in the 2004 Oscar Micheaux Lectures on Race and Media sponsored by the Film Studies Center
and Race/Film Study Group, University of Chicago, May 2004.
"Songwriting in the American Tradition from Blues and Work Songs to Punk and Hip-Hop," seminar at
Naugatuck Valley Community College Writers' Conference '99, Waterbury, CT, October 1999.
