KATE POLAK
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​Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics. Ohio State University Press, Fall 2017. ​

Nominated for a 2018 Eisner Award in the category of Best Academic/Scholarly Work.

Collected Edition

Science Fiction and the Historical Novel: Days of Future Pasts, 2024. 
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Chapters

“The Shape of Power is Always the Same: The Power as Exposure Therapy.” Science Fiction and the Historical Novel: Days of Future Pasts. Eds. Ian P. MacDonald and Kate Polak. Liverpool, 2024. 
“And They Call That Poison Food: Desire and Traumatic Spectatorship in the Lucifer Retelling of Genesis.” Son of Comics and Classics. Ed. George Kovacs. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2016.

“Jason Aaron’s Scalped, Historiographic Metafiction and the Narration of Authenticity.” Narrative is the Essence of History. Ed. John Cameron. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012. 
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“Batman Returns (to Class): Graphic Novels and the Syncretic Classroom.” Teaching Comics and Graphic Narratives. Ed. Lan Dong. New York: MacFarland, 2012.

Articles

“Displacing the Memorial: Holocaust Comics in Conversation with Memory.” Diegesis 8.1, Special Issue: Narrating Reality in Comics. 2019. ​

“’
It Accreted Around Me’: Created Space and the Problem of the Name in Lucifer.” Trespassing. 2012.  
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