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Amy Mazowita
Thesis supervisor: Arseli Dokumaci
Amy Mazowita is a current PhD Candidate. Her doctoral research focuses on social media-based mental health comics and is situated at the intersections of social media studies, comics studies, and critical disability studies. This project explores the communities that form in response to graphic representations of mental illness, and is particularly interested in how individuals are using ‘the comics scene’ of Instagram as a site for developing alternative networks of self- and collective care.
Amy is also interested in projects related to the environmental humanities and is working on a research-creation photo/life writing series as part of the SSHRC-funded “Mobilizing Disability Survival Skills for the Urgencies of the Anthropocene” project (PI, Arseli Dokumaci).
Amy’s research is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). She is a 2023-2024 Concordia University Public Scholar, a core member of Concordia’s Access-in-the-Making (AIM) Lab, the Communications Representative for Concordia’s Communication Studies Doctoral Students Association, and a TA in the Department of Communication Studies.
Thesis title: Graphic Care: Social Media-Based Comics as Networked Mental Health Communities
Publications
Dokumaci, A., Mazowita, A., Stainton, J., Goberdhan, N., Bessette-Viens, R., and Lucas, S. (2023). Spaced apart: Autoethnographies of access throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. “Dis-abling Spaces and Cultures in Times of Crisis” Space and Culture, vol. 26, no. 3, 2023, pp. 365-382, https://doi-org.lib-ezproxy.concordia.ca/10.1177/12063312231181520
Mazowita, A. (2022).“Privileged Witnessing and the Graphic Self in Sarah Glidden’s How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less.” Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, vol. 6, no. 1, 2022, pp. 26-44, doi:10.1353/ink.2022.0001
Mazowita, A. (2022). “Graphic Communities: Comics as Visual and Virtual Resources for Self- and Collective Care.” “Comics in and of The Moment” [Special issue]. The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, vol. 12, no. 1, 2022, doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.6493
Mazowita, A. (October 15-16, 2021). Towards a network of graphic care: The comics, comments, and communities of Instagram [Presentation].
80 Years and Beyond: A Virtual Symposium on Canadian Comics, event sponsored by Brescia University College, University of Winnipeg, Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review, and Sequential: Canadian Independent Comic Book Magazine. https://www.canadiancomics.org/academic-conference
Callison, C., Rifkind, C., with contributions by Sinclair, N. J., Ballantyne, S., Odjick, J., & Daigneault, T., and Mazowita, A. (2019). Introduction: “Indigenous comics and graphic novels: An annotated bibliography.” Jeunesse: Young Peoples, Texts, Cultures, 11(1), 139-55. https://jeunessejournal.ca/index.php/yptc/article/view/495
Daigneault (Métis), T., Mazowita, A., Rifkind, C., and Callison (Tahltan), C. (2019). Indigenous comics and graphic novels: An annotated bibliography. Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, 11(1), i-xxxvi, https://jeunessejournal.ca/index.php/yptc/article/view/504
Mazowita, A. (2018, July 26). Cycles of culture: The revitalization and gentrification of downtown Winnipeg. Centre for research in cultural studies at the University of Winnipeg. https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/crics/projects/cycles-of-culture-the-revitalization-and-gentrification-of-downtown-winnipeg.html
Social media links:
Instagram: amydoesaphd
