Daniel Worden
Daniel Worden
School of Individualized Study
2023 Submissions
Journal Paper
Worden, Daniel. "The Work of Art in the Age of Transmedia Production (with regards to Walter Benjamin)." Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 28. 5 (2023): 56-77. Print. * £
Book Chapter
Worden, Daniel. "Comics." Routledge Companion to Politics and Literature in English. Ed. Matthew Stratton. New York, NY: Routledge, 2023. 323-337. Print. * ∆ £
Worden, Daniel. "Can Comics Think?: Automation on The Cubicle Island." Ilan Manouach in Review: Critical Approaches to his Conceptual Comics. Ed. Pedro Moura. New York, NY: Routledge, 2023. 204-224. Print. * ∆ £
Worden, Daniel. "Speed Lines: Futurism and Superheroes." Comics and Modernism: History, Form, Culture. Ed. Jonathan Najarian. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2024. 184-205. Print. * ∆ £
Published Review
Worden, Daniel. "Close Reading the Wordless Novel." Rev. of Lynd Ward’s Wordless Novels, 1929-1937, by Grant F. Scott. Journal of Modern Literature Blog 12 Jan. 2023: online. Web. ∆ ˜
National/International Competition Award Winner
Worden, Daniel and Rachel Miller. Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ). Runner Up for Best Special Issue Award, in recognition of "Understanding Comics at 30," a special issue of INKS: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, vol. 6, no.3, Fall 2022. Philadelphia, PA, 2024. £ ˜
Invited Keynote/Presentation
Worden, Daniel. "Organizer and Moderator of Roundtable on Print Culture Studies and Modern American Culture." MLA Annual Convention. Modern Language Association. San Francisco, CA. 7 Jan. 2023. Conference Presentation. £ ˜
Worden, Daniel. "The Ideology of Fossil Capital." MLA Annual Convention. Modern Language Association. San Francisco, CA. 7 Jan. 2023. Conference Presentation. ∆ £ ˜
Invited Article/Publication
Whitted, Qiana, et al. "Making the Case for Comics Studies: Program Directors Roundtable." INKS: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, vol. 7, no. 3. (2023). Print. ∆ ˜
Worden, Daniel. "Forum on Fossil Capital, Part 2: The Ideology of Fossil Capital." Energy Humanities. (2023). Web. ∆ ˜
2022 Submissions
Full Length Book
Schwartz, Jesse W. and Daniel Worden, editors. New Directions in Print Culture Studies: Archives, Materiality, and Modern American Culture. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. Print. £
Book Chapter
Worden, Daniel. "The Legacy of Conquest in Comics: Texas History Movies, Jack Jackson, and Revision." The Divided States: Unraveling National Identity in the 21st Century. Ed. Laura J. Beard and Ricia Anne Chansky. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. 90-115. Print. £ ˜
Journal Editor
Miller, Rachel and Daniel Worden, ed. Understanding Comics at 30: a Special Issue of INKS: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, vol. 6, no. 3. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press, 2022. Print. *
Invited Keynote/Presentation
Worden, Daniel. "Maus in Comics History: From Funny Animals to the Classroom." Maus Sympoium. St. John Fisher University. Rochester, NY. 5 Apr. 2022. Keynote Speech.
2021 Submissions
Full Length Book
Worden, Daniel, editor. The Comics of R. Crumb: Underground in the Art Museum. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2021. Print. ˜
Book Chapter
Worden, Daniel. "Television and Other Popular Media from the 1960s to Now." Raymond Williams at 100. Ed. Paul Stasi. London, UK: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. 151-168. Print. ˜
Worden, Daniel. "Plastic Man and Other Petrochemical Fantasies." Life in Plastic: Artistic Responses to Petromodernity. Ed. Caren Irr. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 97-114. Print. ˜
Worden, Daniel. "Head Shop, Punk, and Underground." Key Terms in Comics Studies. Ed. Simon Grennan, Erin La Cour, and Rik Spanjers. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 144, 261, 338. Print. ˜
Published Review
Worden, Daniel. Rev. of Hemingway in Comics, by David K. Elder. The Hemingway Review 40.2 Spring 2021: 141-144. Print. ˜
Invited Keynote/Presentation
Worden, Daniel. "True Crime: Climate Change’s Documentary Aesthetic." MLA Convention. Modern Language Association. Virtual, Virtual. 9 Jan. 2021. Conference Presentation. £
Worden, Daniel. "Roundtable on New Flashpoints in Comics History." MLA Convention. Modern Language Association. Virtual, Virtual. 7 Jan. 2021. Conference Presentation. £
Worden, Daniel, Barbara Postema, and Emmy Waldman. "Pandemic Comics and COVID-19." MLC Webinar Series. Ryerson University. Toronto, ON. 25 Mar. 2021. Guest Lecture. ∆
2020 Submissions
Full Length Book
Worden, Daniel. Neoliberal Nonfictions: The Documentary Aesthetic from Joan Didion to Jay-Z. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2020. Print. ˜
Published Review
Worden, Daniel. Rev. of The Microeconomic Mode: Political Subjectivity in Contemporary Popular Aesthetics, by Jane Elliott. CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 47.2 2020: 239-242. Print. £
Worden, Daniel. Rev. of Left in the West: Literature, Culture, and Progressive Politics in the American West, ed. Gioia Woods. Great Plains Quarterly 40.1 2020: 116. Print. £
Worden, Daniel. Rev. of Giant: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Edna Ferber, and the Making of a Legendary American Film, by Don Graham. Western American Literature 54.4 2020: 458-460. Print. £
Invited Paper
Worden, Daniel and et al. "“‘A Diary of Time Itself’: An Academic Roundtable on Chris Ware’s Rusty Brown,” edited by Martha Kuhlman." The Comics Journal. (2020). Web. ∆
Invited Keynote/Presentation
Walker, Rebekah and Daniel Worden. "Comics in the Archive: Digital Approaches to the 1956 Newsstand." Comics Forum. Michigan State University. East Lansing, MI. 22 Feb. 2020. Conference Presentation. £
Worden, Daniel. "Cool Realism: The New Journalism and New York Literary Culture." NEH Summer Institute. City of Print: New York and the Periodical Press. CUNY City Tech. Brooklyn, NY. 2 Jul. 2020. Guest Lecture. ∆
Invited Article/Publication
Worden, Daniel. "The New Yorker by the Numbers." Circulating American Magazines Digital Project, James Madison University. (2020). Web. ∆
2019 Submissions
Book Chapter
Worden, Daniel. "Cibopathic." An Ecotopian Lexicon. Ed. Matthew Schneider-Materson and Brent Ryan Bellamy. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. 42-51. Print. *
Worden, Daniel. "Lit: A Memoir by Mary Karr." Disability Experiences: Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Other Personal Narratives. Ed. G. Thomas Couser and Susannah B. Mintz. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2019. 396-398. Print. *
Invited Paper
Worden, Daniel. "Researcher Spotlight: Dr. Daniel Worden on 'Oil Comics'." Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum Blog. (2019). Web. ˜
Shows/Exhibits/Installations
Various, . Frozen in Time: The Stephen Cooper Comic Book Collection. Jun. 2019. RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection Digital Exhibits, Rochester, NY. https://cary-exhibits.rit.edu/exhibits/show/cooper-comics. Exhibit.
Invited Keynote/Presentation
Worden, Daniel. "Sequence in Comics." Sequential Considerations Symposium. Visual Studies Workshop. Rochester, NY. 21 Mar. 2019. Lecture. ∆
Worden, Daniel. "Joan Didion, the New Journalism, and Personal Style." Barrett Honors College Lecture Series. Arizona State University. Tempe, AZ. 28 Mar. 2019. Lecture. ∆
Worden, Daniel. "Reading, Looking, Feeling: Comics After Legitimacy." Brandeis Novel Symposium. Brandeis University. Waltham, MA. 12 Apr. 2019. Lecture. ∆
Worden, Daniel. "After Legitimacy: R. Crumb in Comics Studies." Comics Studies Society Annual Conference. Ryerson University. Toronto, ON. 27 Jul. 2019. Conference Presentation. ˜
Worden, Daniel and Rebekah Walker. "Comics in the Archive: Digital Approaches to the April 1956 Newsstand." Association for Computers and the Humanities Conference. Alliance for Digital Humanities Organizations. Pittsburgh, PA. 26 Jul. 2019. Conference Presentation. £
2018 Submissions
Book Chapter
Worden, Daniel. "Speculative Ecology: Rachel Carson’s Environmentalist Documentaries." Remaking Reality: U.S. Documentary Culture after 1945. Ed. Sara Blair, Joseph Entin, and Franny Nudelman. Chapel Hill, NC: U of North Carolina P, 2018. 83-98. Print. *
Worden, Daniel. "Memoir." American Literature in Transition, 2000-2010. Ed. Rachel Greenwald Smith. New York, NY: Cambridge UP, 2018. 125-37. Print. *
Worden, Daniel. "Oil and Corporate Personhood: Ida Tarbell's The History of the Standard Oil Company and John D. Rockefeller." Materialism and the Critique of Energy. Ed. Jeff Diamanti and Brent Ryan Bellamy. Chicago, IL: MCM P, 2018. 315-329. Print. *
Published Review
Worden, Daniel. Rev. of Ernest Haycox and the Western, by Richard Etulain. Western American Literature Summer 2018: 261-263. Print. £
Shows/Exhibits/Installations
Kubert, Adam. Anatomy of a Comic: The Art of Adam Kubert. By Daniel Worden, Steven Galbraith, and Amelia Hugill-Fontanel. 7 Nov. 2018. Cary Graphic Arts Collection, Wallace Center, RIT, Rochester. Exhibit.
External Scholarly Fellowships/National Review Committee
8/1/2018 -
8/30/2018
Lucy Shelton Caswell Research Award, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, The Ohio State University
Amount: $2500
£
Invited Keynote/Presentation
Worden, Daniel. "Zap and the Underground Archive." Canadian Society for the Study of Comics Annual Conference. Toronto Comic Arts Festival. Toronto, ON. 10 May 2018. Conference Presentation. £
Worden, Daniel. "Oil Comics: Corporate Relations, Speculation, and Climate Change." Petrocultures 2018. University of Glasgow. Glasgow, UK. 29 Aug. 2018. Conference Presentation. £
Worden, Daniel. "Oil Comics: Corporate Relations, Speculation, and Climate Change." CXC Scholarly Symposium. The Ohio State University. Columbus, OH. 27 Sep. 2018. Conference Presentation. £
Worden, Daniel. "Caricatures of History: Texas History Movies and the Politics of Educational Comics." Modernist Studies Association Conference. The Ohio State University. Columbus, OH. 8 Nov. 2018. Conference Presentation. £
Invited Article/Publication
Worden, Daniel, Nicole Burton, and Hugh Goldring. "Social Justice Comics Today: An Interview with the Creators of The Beast: Making a Living on a Dying Planet." Los Angeles Review of Books. (2018). Web. £
2017 Submissions
Full Length Book
Worden, Daniel, editor. The Comics of Joe Sacco: Journalism in a Visual World. Paperback ed. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2017. Print. ˜
Book Chapter
Worden, Daniel. "The Memoir in the Age of Neoliberal Individualism." Neoliberalism and Contemporary Literary Culture. Ed. Mitchum Huehls and Rachel Greenwald Smith. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. 160-177. Print. ˜
Worden, Daniel. "Texas." Fueling Culture: 101 Words for Energy and Environment. Ed. Imre Szeman, Jennifer Wenzel, and Patricia Yaeger. New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2017. 349-352. Print. ˜
Published Review
Worden, Daniel. "Hillbilly Jesus, Take Me Home." Rev. of Songy of Paradise, by Gary Panter. Los Angeles Review of Books 16 Sep. 2017: 1-40. Web. ˜
Worden, Daniel. Rev. of Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016, eds. Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. Afterimage 2017: 31-32. Print. ˜
Worden, Daniel. "The Short Story in the Age of Tumblr." Rev. of New Animals, by Nick Francis Potter. Los Angeles Review of Books 12 Jan. 2017: 1-250. Web. ˜
Worden, Daniel. Rev. of Captivating Westerns: The Middle East in the American West, by Susan Kollin. American Literary History Online Review Nov. 2017: 1-3. Web. ˜
Invited Keynote/Presentation
Worden, Daniel. "The Legacy of Conquest in Comics: Texas History Movies, Jack Jackson, and Colonialism." Canadian Society for the Study of Comics Annual Conference. Canadian Society for the Study of Comics. Toronto, ON. 11 May 2017. Conference Presentation. ∆
Worden, Daniel. "True Crime: The Documentary Aesthetics of Maggie Nelson and Taryn Simon." International Auto/Biography Association Chapter of the Americas Conference. York University. Toronto, ON. 16 May 2017. Conference Presentation. ˜
Worden, Daniel. "Genre Beauty: Pretty Deadly’s Metaphysical Historicism." International Comic Arts Forum. University of Washington. Seattle, WA. 4 Nov. 2017. Conference Presentation. ˜
2016 Submissions
Full Length Book
Worden, Daniel, Jason Gladstone, and Andrew Hoberek, editors. Postmodern/Postwar - & After: Rethinking American Literature. Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 2016. Print. ˜
Journal Paper
Worden, Daniel, et al. "Style as Character: Joan Didion's Genres." A/B: Auto/Biography Studies 31. 3 (2016): 581-617. Print. ˜
Invited Keynote/Presentation
Worden, Daniel. "Speculative Ecology: Documentary Form and Deep Oil." Petrocultures 2016: The Offshore. Memorial University of Newfoundland. St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. 1 Sep. 2016. Conference Presentation. ∆
Worden, Daniel. "The Meaning of Memoir: Self, Object, and Other Neoliberal Nonfictions." Production of Literature Speaker Series. Carleton University. Ottawa, ON. 9 Nov. 2016. Lecture. ∆
Worden, Daniel. "Money Trees": Comics, Rap, and Dispossession." Production of Literature Speaker Series. Carleton University. Ottawa, ON. 10 Nov. 2016. Lecture.