Rationales for Teaching Graphic Novels
James Bucky Carter is an award-winning scholar and a leader of the comics-and-education revitalization currently underway. He is the editor ofBuilding Literacy Connections with Graphic Novels: Page by Page, Panel by Panel, for which he was awarded the first Excellence in Graphica in Education Award in 2009. He has published articles on comics and literacy inThe ALAN Review, English Journal, Educational Leadership, ImageTexT, andClassroom Notes Plus; has written comics-related lesson plans for ReadWriteThink.org; and has written chapters on the subject for books in print or forthcoming books for Corwin Press, the Modern Language Association, NCTE, and Greenwood Press. He maintains a blog on all things sequential art and education-related:ensaneworld.blogspot.com. An experienced classroom teacher, Carter speaks to teachers across the country on how to use comics in the classroom. He is an assistant professor of English education at the University of Texas at El Paso.