Daniel Worden

Daniel Worden

Associate Professor
School of Individualized Study
School of Art
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.