Dr. Kelp-Stebbins (she/her/hers) or Dr. K—as her students call her—is Associate Professor of English and Director of Comics and Cartoon Studies at the University of Oregon. Her research examines comics and visual media as tools for rethinking world literature and remapping transnational media flows. Her book, How Comics Travel: Translation, Publication, Radical Literacies (2022), uses comparative approaches to understand the racialized, gendered, and culturally specific components of reading comics around the world.

She is a lifelong comics lover and counts herself fortunate to have the opportunity to share comics with students and to explore the mysteries and complexities of this medium. She starts glitching if asked to name a favorite comic, but she has published extensively on Indigenous comics, queer comics, anticolonial comics, antiracist comics, comics journalism, feminist comics, and comics translation. She is also the curator of The Art of the News: Comics Journalism exhibition.

I am a junior majoring in English and minoring in Comics and Cartoon Studies. In my free time I enjoy making comics, playing music and going for long hikes. I am passionate about learning and teaching, and I’m excited to see what my FIG students do during Fall 2023!