Teaching Gender Through Comics With Christina Blanch, Part 1

Christina Blanch is teaching a Massive Open Online Course titled Gender Through Comics, beginning in a little less than two weeks.Sponsored by Ball State University, Blanch’s class will bring together comics luminaries like Terry Moore, Gail Simone, Kelly Sue DeConnick and Scott Snyder in a course that examines how gender is depicted and perceived in culture and entertainment–all through the lens of (mostly mainstream) American comic books.You can sign up for the course here, which does have some required reading–about $75 worth of textbooks in the form of comics available at deep discounts through ComiXology. If you want to know more about it, here’s an introductory video created for the course, narrated by Stan Lee.