An Illustrated Perspective. Analyzing German History through the Graphic Novel Medium.
An exhibit designed by students in the course Graphic Novels (GERMAN 338), offered by Professor Corinna Kahnke in the spring of 2015.
The new student exhibit near the International Reading Room in Bostock Library explores German history through the medium of the German graphic novel. The exhibit was designed and curated by Jeremy Clift, Cecile Franke, Zhan Wu, Morgan Daly, Benjamin Spilsbury, and Elizabeth Nadler, students in a course taught by Professor Kahnke, in collaboration with Matt Hambro (German Studies graduate student), Dr. Heidi Madden (Duke University Libraries), and Elizabeth Dunn (Rubenstein). Faculty, students, and librarians gratefully acknowledge the support from the graduate school in the form of a Paletz grant.
The exhibit opening was celebrated with a talk by Professor Lynn Kutch (Kutztown University) entitled: “Thinking Outside the Panel: German Comics History.” The text of the presentation is available as PDF download.
The exhibit highlights the history of the German Comic and Graphic Novel over the past two hundred years in image and text. Materials include scans from rare books, illustrated magazines and newspapers held at the Rubenstein Library, as well books from the library’s German comics and graphic novels collection. All materials are accompanied by student research in German and English. A (very) Brief History of German Comics, which frames the exhibit, is available as a PDF download.
The exhibit will be up until May 25, 2015; for questions and comments, contact Professor Corinna Kahnke: corinna.kahnke@duke.edu, or Dr. Heidi Madden: heidi.madden@duke.edu.
