Associate Professor Carol Tilley has several speaking engagements scheduled in March, including two on campus at the University of Illinois.
On March 3, Tilley will deliver the opening address of Central Michigan University’s (CMU) ComiConference 3. Her talk is titled, “The Secret History of Comics Readers,” and will be held in the CMU Park Library Auditorium. ComiConference 3 is free and open to the public.
Tilley will participate as an invited panelist in a seminar on managing one’s online scholarly presence. Sponsored by the University of Illinois Library’s Scholarly Commons and the Graduate College, the seminar will be held on March 6.
Also at Illinois, Tilley will deliver an invited talk titled, "Kids Doing Things with Comics: Reading, Writing, and Playing in History,” at a brownbag event hosted by the Center for Writing Studies on March 11.
At GSLIS, Tilley teaches courses in comics reader's advisory, media literacy, and youth services librarianship. Part of her scholarship focuses on the intersection of young people, comics, and libraries, particularly in the United States during the mid-twentieth century. Her research has been published in several academic journals, including the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Information & Culture: A Journal of History, and Children's Literature in Education. Her research on anti-comics advocate Fredric Wertham was featured in The New York Times and other media outlets.