Postponed — Inappropriate and Inexcusable: Gabrielle Bell and Liana Finck Talk Comics with Tahneer Oksman

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  Gabrielle Bell

  Gabrielle Bell

  Gabrielle Bell’s work has been selected several times for Best American Comics and the Yale Anthology of Graphic Fiction, and has been featured in McSweeney’s, The Believer, Bookforum and Vice magazines. Her story, “Cecil and Jordan In New York,” was turned into a film by Michel Gondry. The Voyeurs was named one of the best Graphic Novels of the year by Publishers Weekly. Gabrielle Bell currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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  Liana Finck

  Liana Finck

  Liana Finck is the author of Passing for Human and a regular contributor to the New Yorker. She is a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and a Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists. She has had artist residencies with MacDowell, Yaddo, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Willapa Bay.

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  Tahneer Oksman

  Tahneer Oksman

  Tahneer Oksman (she/her) is a writer, teacher, and scholar. Her interests revolve around comics and visual rhetoric, contemporary women’s literature, memoir studies, journalism and writing, and Jewish American literature and culture. She is an Associate Professor of Academic Writing at Marymount Manhattan College, where she teaches classes in writing, literature, and journalism (cultural criticism). Currently, she is co-editing a multi-disciplinary Special Issue of Shofar: an Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, titled, “What’s Jewish About Death?”, and also working on a new book exploring memoirs about grief and why we read them. She lives in Brooklyn, with her partner and two kids, and loves talking about podcasts.