More Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and Methods, edited by Randy Duncan, Matthew J. Smith, and I, has just been published by Routledge. You can also find it at Amazon.
The book is a followup to the original Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and Methods (edited by Matt and Randy), with 19 chapters covering all-new critical approaches, filling in a few lacunae from the first book as well as representing the growth in relevant approaches in comics studies over the past ~8 years.
As with the first book, each chapter is written with the student in mind, laying out background, underlying assumptions, and procedures for the relevant critical approach, an explanation of what sort of works / artifacts are appropriate for that type of approach, and a sample analysis of a specific work.
The book is useful not only for teaching comics studies courses, but can also be used to teach theories and methods in arts and humanities more generally.
List of approaches and contributors is below.
- Critical Theory, Matthew P. McAllister & Joe Cruz
- Postcolonial Theory, Christophe Dony
- Critical Race Theory, Phillip Lamarr Cunningham
- Queer Theory, Valentino L. Zullo
- Disability Studies, Krista Quesenberry
- Critical Geography, Julian C. Chambliss
- Utopianism, Graham J. Murphy
- New Criticism, Rocco Versaci
- Psychoanalytic Criticism, Evita Lykou
- Autographics, Andy J. Kunka
- Linguistics, Kristy Beers Fägersten
- Philosophical Aesthetics, Aaron Meskin & Roy T. Cook
- Burkean Dramatistic Analysis, A. Cheree Carlson
- Adaptation, David Coughlan
- Transmedia Storytelling, William Proctor
- Parasocial Relationship Analysis, Randy Duncan
- Historiography, Adam Sherif
- Bakhtinian Dialogics, Daniel Pinti
- Scientific Humanities, Matthew J. Brown