Context is Everything: A Review of Comics Studies: A Guidebook

Perspectives on context Context is everything

Mina Bissell: Context is everything

M ina Bissell has never been afraid to challenge conventional wisdom, whether on a woman's role in the laboratory or on how a cell's context determines its function. Bissell came to the US from Iran to study chemistry at Bryn Mawr and Radcliffe Colleges, before pursuing a PhD in bacteriology at Harvard Medical School. She moved to California for her postdoc in virol-ogy, before joining the Lawr...

the effectiveness of strategy-based instruction in teaching english as a second or foreign language: a meta-analysis of experimental studies

a large number of single research studies on the effects of strategy-based instruction (sbi) in teaching english as a foreign or second language has been conducted so far. however, the lack of a comprehensive meta-analysis targeting the effectiveness of english language sbi is observed. moreover, the findings of experimental studies regarding the context of the english language, proficiency lev...

ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies

Batman has contributed more than its fair share to the 'darkness that hangs over contemporary culture like a picturesque pall. 'Dark' designates both a highly marketable aesthetic style and an ethical, or rather anti-ethical, stance, a kind of designer nihilism whose chief theoretical proposition is the denial of the possibility of the Good. Gotham, particularly as re-invented by Frank Miller i...

Is everything a world?

This paper discusses “inclusionism” in the context of David Lewis’s modal realism (and in the context of parasitic accounts of modality such as John Divers’s agnosticism about possible worlds). This is the doctrine that everything is a world. I argue that this doctrine would be beneficial to Divers-style agnosticism; that it suggests a reconfiguration of the concept of actuality in modal realis...