remus jackson | ehetja@gmail.com
Cartoonist and PhD candidate currently living in Austin, TX. Areas of research include queer + trans studies, comic studies and museum studies.
EDUCATION
2020 | Master’s English | University of Florida | Gainesville, FL
Thesis: Queer YA Graphic Novels and Queer/Crip Embodiment Through Autocritography. Chair: Dr. Marsha Bryant
2018 - Present | PhD English [Comic Studies + Museum Studies] | University of Florida | Gainesville, FL
Oct. 2017 | Writing Creative Nonfiction with Evelyn Hampton | Frequency Writers | Providence, RI
2011 - 2015 | B.F.A. Illustration + Creative Writing Minor | Moore College of Art and Design | Philadelphia, PA
July 2012 | Design + Architecture Summer Semester | Acadia University | Rome, Italy
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
ENC2210, Technical Communication (one section, Summer 2021)
ENC1145, Writing About: HIV/AIDS Art and Literature (one section, juried course proposal, Spring 2021)
ENG2300, Film Analysis (one section, Spring 2020, Fall 2021)
ENG3246, Professional Communication for Engineers (one section, Spring 2020)
AML2410, Issues in American Literature: Life Writing in the Margins (one section, juried course proposal, Fall 2019)
ENC1102, Rhetoric and Academic Research (one section, Summer 2019, Spring 2019)
ENC1101, Introduction to College Writing (one section, Fall 2018)
WORKSHOPS
May 2021 | Zine workshop | Graduate Comics Organization Conference, University of Florida | Gainesville, FL
June 2019 | Zine workshop | Radiator Comics | Miami, FL
Feb. 2018 | Mini-zine workshop for Third Thursday | Rhode Island School of Design [ RISD ] Museum | Providence, RI
Jan. 2018 | “Out of Line” Drawing Studio: Zine Workshop | RISD Museum | Providence, RI
RESEARCH & PRESENTATIONS
Oct. 2022 | ““This is the kind of society I’m looking for, anyway”: Krysta Morningstarr & The Radical Potential of Prisoner’s Comics,“ Conference presentation | 9th Quarry Farms Symposium: Abolition Studies | The Center for Mark Twain Studies
May 2022 | “Mutual Aid Pedagogy as Accessible Teaching,” Roundtable presentation with F. Stewart-Taylor, Nicole Green and Cara Wieland | Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference
Dec. 2020 | “Building Collaborative Spaces: Learning from Crip Communities,” Digital roundtable, co-organizer and moderator | Panelists Ashanti Forson and Sky Cubacub | Constructing Communities: Exploring Access through Education & Art | University of Florida
Nov. 2020 | “Nuts and Bolts: Writing,” Digital roundtable with Delta Omar and Jarod Roselló
June 2020 | “Nuts and Bolts: Penciling,” Digital roundtable with Mar Julia and Estrella Vega | Radiator Comics
May 2020 | “Nuts and Bolts: Story Development,” Digital roundtable with Jessica Garcia, Jayro Lantigua, and Jarod Roselló | Radiator Comics
Feb. 2020 | “Critical Pedagogy + Disability Justice,” Roundtable presentation with F. Stewart-Taylor and Cara Wieland | Pedagogy, Practice and Philosophy Conference | University of Florida
June 2019 | “Community Repair Through Queer Prisoners’ Comics-Making: ABO Comix as Queer Utopia,” Conference presentation | Comics & Politics: The 2nd Annual Conference of the Comic Studies Society | Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario
Apr. 2019 | ImageText Comics Reading, organizer and presenter | UF Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels: ImageText in Motion | with F. Stewart Taylor & Tom Hart | University of Florida
Feb. 2019 | “Logical Thinking Through Collaborative Comic-Making,” Conference presentation | Pedagogy, Practice and Philosophy Conference | University of Florida
Dec. 2018 | “What Does it Cost to Tell the Truth?” Moderator, Roundtable with Carta Monir and Sunmi | Comic Arts Los Angeles
July 2018 | Guest lecturer at the University of the Arts | collaboration with Cathy G. Johnson
2017 - Present | Drawing a Dialogue - scholarly podcast | collaboration with Cathy G. Johnson
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Oct. 2022 | Jackson, remus. “‘Better a man than dead?’ Radical (trans)masculinities in comic-zines,” in The LGBTQ Comic Studies Reader, ed. Alison J Halsall and Jonathan A Warren. UP of Mississippi.
Nov. 2020 | Jackson, remus and F. Stewart-Taylor. “Reading Trans Autobiographical Comics through Trans Phenomenology.” ICAF Virtual Conference Blog, 25 Nov 2020. http://www.internationalcomicartsforum.org/icaf-2020-virtual-conference-blog-posts/reading-trans-autobiographical-comics-through-trans-phenomenology
Mar. 2020 | Jackson, remus. “‘On the Margins of Written Poetry’: Pedro Figari,” Harn Museum of Art—Instructional Resource: Thinking About Art and Modernity, for Harn Museum.
Mar. 2020 | Jackson, remus, F. Stewart-Taylor, and Cara Wieland. “Disability Justice and Mutual Pedagogy: Or how I learned to keep worrying and teach later on.” The Activist History Review, 31 Mar 2020. https://activisthistory.com/2020/03/31/disability-justice-and-mutual-aid-pedagogy-or-how-i-learned-to-keep-worrying-and-teach-later-on/
SELECTED COMICS PUBLICATIONS
Dec. 2018 | See Me | Diskette Press | 2019 Prism Award, Best Short Form Comic
Aug. 2018 | It’s Discourse, Archie | self published
Aug. 2018 | “#self” - 4 page comic in We’re Still Here: An All Trans Comic Anthology | Stacked Deck Press
June 2018 | Woven - collaboration with Veronica Hicks + Alesha Nichols | self-published
Jan. 2018 | “knowing miiself” - online comic | ZEAL
Aug. 2017 | “For the Love of OOO” - Adventure Time #14 | Boom! Studios
Mar. 2017 | “Don’t Like Don’t Read” - online comic | ZEAL
Oct. 2016 | Summer Fright Nights | self-published
Oct. 2015 | Love Bite | self-published
Aug. 2015 | Flux | self-published
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
(Postponed due to COVID-19) | Internship with Dr. Katherine Ott | National Museum of American History | Washington, DC
Sep. 2021 - | Support Specialist | ITHAKA | Remote
Oct. 2017 - Jan. 2018 | “Out of Line” Gallery Host | RISD Museum | Providence, RI
Jan. 2015 - Apr. 2015 | Illustration Intern | Philadelphia Printworks | Philadelphia, PA
June 2014 - Aug. 2014 | Editorial Intern | Boom! Studios | Los Angeles, CA
2014 - 2016 | Assistant to Jamar Nicholas | JN Studios | Philadelphia, PA [ Remote ]
ACHIEVEMENTS
2021-2022 | University Writing Program Mentoring Fellowship
2019 | Carol L. Tilley Travel Grant for presentation at the 2nd Annual Comic Studies Conference
2019 | Graduate Student Council Grant for presentation at the 2nd Annual Comic Studies Conference
2018 | Grinter Fellowship for study at the University of Florida
2017 | Best Short Story, Prism Award Nomination for Flux
2016 | Small But Mighty Arts Grant for Woven
2015 | Frieda M. Fehrenbacher International Travel Fellowship Award for travel to Seoul, Korea
2015 | Penny Fox Internship Fellowship Award for internship with Boom! Studios
SERVICE
2020 - 2021 | Assistant Reviews Editor, ImageTeXT, University of Florida | Gainesville, FL
2019 - 2020 | President, English Graduate Organization, University of Florida | Gainesville, FL
2019 - 2020 | Secretary, Graduate Comics Organization, University of Florida | Gainesville, FL
2018 - Present | GAU Steward, University of Florida | Gainesville, FL
2018 - 2019 | LGBTQ Speakers Bureau, University of Florida | Gainesville, FL
2017 - 2018 | Friends of Knight Memorial Library | Providence, RI