Martha Kuhlman

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Martha Kuhlman

Martha Kuhlman received her PhD in Comparative Literature from NYU. She edited The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing is a Way of Thinking (2010), published by the University Press of Mississippi, and has contributed chapters to a number of books on graphic novels, including Drawing From the Classics: Essays on Graphic Adaptations of Literary Works, The Cambridge Guide to the Graphic Novel, and Approaches to Teaching the Graphic Novel. She has published articles on Central European authors in World Literature Today, The Comparatist, and Modernism/Modernity, among other journals. She served on the MLA Forum on Comics and Graphic Narratives from 2012-2017, and served on the executive committee of the Comics Studies Society 2018-2019.

Most recently, she published Comics of the New Europe, co edited with José Alaniz, with Leuven University Press in the summer of 2020.

Ph D, New York University

MA, New York University

BA, New York University

Kuhlman, M., Form in Comics, .

Kuhlman, M., Review of a book proposal for U of Georgia Press, Review of a book proposal.

Kuhlman, M., Experiments in Creativity, or, ‘This is not a Comic.', , 2019.

Kuhlman, M., Biography and Autobiography, , 2017.

Kuhlman, M., Whose City? Art and Public Space in Providence, , 2016.

Kuhlman, M., “Visualizing the unrepresentable: graphic novel adaptations of Kafka’s Metamorphosis,” , , 2015.

Kuhlman, M., Peer review of an article on Chris Ware's work, Peer review of an article for Modern Fiction Studies.

Kuhlman, M., Peer review of an article on Czech Surrealism, Modernism/Modernity.

Kuhlman, M., Review of Approaches to Teaching Alison Bechdel, Book proposal review for the MLA.

Kuhlman, M., Review of a a revised proposal for Approaches to Teaching Alison Bechdel's Fun Home, Second review of a Book Proposal.

Kuhlman, M., Review of a book-length manuscript for Rutgers U press, .

Kuhlman, M., Review of an article on Julia Kristeva for the journal Literature/Interpretation/Theory, .

Kuhlman, M., Translation of "Ja," from Czech to English, Shenandoah Literary Magazine.

Kuhlman, M., review of an article for Inks, the journal of the Comics Studies Society, .

Kuhlman, M., reviewed an article for the journal Mosaic, review of an article for a scholarly journal, Mosaic.

Kuhlman, M., Heartcore by Stepanka Jislova, Penn State University Press, 2025.

Kuhlman, M., BALD by Tereza Cechova, art by Stepanka Jislova, Penn State University Press, 2024.

Kuhlman, M., "The Burrow", Adaptation of a story by Franz Kafka, 2024.

Kuhlman, M., American Women’s Lives in Graphic Novels: Becoming and Unbecoming Women, Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Kuhlman, M., Award from the Comics Studies Society for Comics of the New Europe, , 2021.

Kuhlman, M., Reviewed an article for publication “Reading Post-Slavery Subjectivities in Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth.”, Review of an article for a journal, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 2021.

Kuhlman, M., Reviewed a book manuscript, How Comics Travel, for OSU Press, Ohio State University, 2021.

Kuhlman, M., Book talk--Comics of the New Europe, NYU Jordon Center, 2021.

Kuhlman, M., Reviewed a book proposal for Cambridge University Press, Reviewed a proposal for Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Kuhlman, M., Review of The Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell: A Place inside Yourself, edited by Tahneer Oksman and Seamus O'Malley, Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, 2020.

Kuhlman, M., Comics of the New Europe, Leuven University Press, 2020.

Kuhlman, M., Design in Comics, Rutgers University Press, 2020.

Kuhlman, M., Academic roundtable on Rusty Brown by Chris Ware: A Diary of Time Itself, The Comics Journal, 2020.

Kuhlman, M., Experiments in Comics: Kafka's Aphorisms, University of Liege, 2019.

Kuhlman, M., "The Avant-Garde Aesthetic of Vojtech Masek", INKS: Journal of the Comics Studies Society, 2019.

Kuhlman, M., Review of Ethics in the Gutter by Kate Polak, Inks, 2019.

Kuhlman, M., The Reinvention of Form: Chris Ware and Experimentalism After Raw, Cambridge History of Comics, 2018.

Kuhlman, M., Review of Mister Morgan, by Igor Hofbauer, Inks, 2018.

Kuhlman, M., Drawing is a Way of Thinking: An Introduction to Chris Ware, Hamelin Associazione Culturale, 2016.

Kuhlman, M., "Haunting the Borderlands: Graphic novel representations of the German expulsion", European Comic Art, 2013.

Kuhlman, M., Review of Comics vs. Art by Bart Beaty, College Literature, 2013.

Research Award , 2023