Author: Harriet Earle

Dr Harriet Earle is an Associate Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck, University of London. She recently completed her PhD in American Comics at Keele University and is currently preparing her first monograph on the topic of comics and and conflict trauma for the University Press of Mississippi. Her publications are spread across the field of comics, popular culture studies and contemporary American literature.
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Photographing the Flag

Harriet Earle October 30, 2015 No Comments

In Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag examines the history and development of representing war in photographs. Returning to the earliest images of conflict, she writes: ‘Not to be pained by these pictures, not to recoil from them, not to strive to abolish what caused this havoc, this carnage – these would be the reactions of a moral monster’ (2003: 7). …

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Comics and Page Bleeds

Harriet Earle October 9, 2013 1 Comment

We are used to seeing comics as a succession of neatly ordered panels, each containing images and words that combine together to tell a story. In my last paper for Alluvium, ‘Panel Transitions in Trauma Comics,’ (Alluvium Vol. 2, No. 1…

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Panel Transitions in Trauma Comics

Harriet Earle January 12, 2013 4 Comments

Comics are the new kids on the block in the world of literary academia. It is only in recent years that they have been accepted at a valid narrative form…

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