Dean, College of Arts and Sciences

Brittany Tullis, PhD

Brittany Tullis, PhD, teaches courses on Latin/x American literature, culture, comics, and gender studies in multiple degree programs at St. Ambrose University, including Spanish and Latinx Studies; Justice, Diversity, and Gender Studies; and International Studies.

Her area of expertise is in transamerican Latin/x American comics studies, with a focus on graphic-narrative representations of women and girls within the medium.

Contact Us

Ambrose Hall

563-333-6021

tullisbrittanyn@sau.edu

Education and Training

PhD, MA, University of Iowa, Hispanic Literatures
BA, University of Iowa, English and Spanish

Areas of Professional Interest

Latin/x American and Hispanic comics
International feminist comics
Representations of gender and sexuality in the Americas
Graphic narrative testimony
Contemporary Latin/x American literature and culture
US Latinx/Chicanx literature and culture

Recent Publications

Merino, Ana; Tania Perez-Cano, and Brittany Tullis, editors. El cómic: intertextualidades, discursividades y paratextos en el arte secuencial de América Latina. Special issue of Mitologías hoy. Revista de pensamiento, crítica y estudios literarios latinoamericanos, Vol. 2, 2019.
Merino, Ana; Tania Perez-Cano, and Brittany Tullis. "Introducción." El cómic: intertextualidades, discursividades y paratextos en el arte secuencial de América Latina. Special issue of Mitologías hoy. Revista de pensamiento, crítica y estudios literarios latinoamericanos, Vol. 2, 2019, 1-12.
Tullis, Brittany. "Desde el comic documental al tallerismo. Entrevista con Jesús Cossio." El cómic: intertextualidades, discursividades y paratextos en el arte secuencial de América Latina. Special issue of Mitologías hoy. Revista de pensamiento, crítica y estudios literarios Latinoamericanos, Vol. 2, 2019, 261-268.
Tullis, Brittany. "Tales from La Vida: Latinx Lives, Latinx Voices." Review of Tales from La la Vida, edited by Frederick Luis Aldama. Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures, Vol. 3, No. 2, Spring 2019, 179-182.
Tullis, Brittany. "Mapping Transamerican Mestizaje in Love and Rockets." Comics Studies Here and Now! Ed. Frederick Aldama. Routledge, 2018, 252-266.
Heimermann, Mark and Brittany Tullis, editors. Picturing Childhood: Youth in Transnational Comics. University of Texas Press, March 2017. *2018 Will Eisner Award Nominee: Best Academic/Scholarly Work of 2017*
Heimermann, Mark and Brittany Tullis. "Bridging Comics Studies and Childhood Studies." Picturing Childhood: Youth in Transnational Comics. Eds. Mark Heimermann and Brittany Tullis, Eds. University of Texas Press, 2017, 1-12.
Tullis, Brittany. "Out of the Mouths of Babes: Mafalda's Interrogation of the Argentine Angel in the House." Picturing Childhood: Youth in Transnational Comics. Eds. Mark Heimermann and Brittany Tullis. University of Texas Press, 2017, 92-107.
Tullis, Brittany (consultant and contributor). The History of Illustration, Eds. Susan Doyle, Jaleen Grove, and Whitney Sherman. Bloomsbury Publishers/Fairchild Books, 2017.
Tullis, Brittany. "The Hernandez Brothers." Volume Advisor. Contemporary Literary Criticism 378, Summer 2015, 1-85.
Tullis, Brittany. "¿Chica moderna o mujer tradicional? Intersections of Modernity and Tradition in Gabriel Vargas' La Familia Burrón." International Journal of Comic Art 16, no. 1, Spring 2014, 48-73.
Tullis, Brittany. "Paco Roca's Arrugas, Miguel Ángel Gallardo's María y yo, and the Impact of Social Comics in Contemporary Spain." International Journal of Comic Art 14, no. 2, Fall 2012, 77-89.
Merino, Ana and Brittany Tullis. "The Sequential Art of Memory: The Testimonial Struggle of Comics in Spain." Memory and Its Discontents: Spanish Culture in the Early Twenty-First Century. Ed. Luis Martin- Estudillo and Nicholas Spadaccini. Hispanic Issues On Line, Vol. 11, Fall 2012, 211-225.