Interim Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Brittany Tullis, PhD, teaches courses on Latin/x American literature, culture, comics, and gender studies in multiple degree programs at St. Ambrose Univesrity, 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.
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.
Latin/x American Comics
Feminist Comics
International Feminist Comics
Comics in the Hispanic World
Hispanic Comics in Translation
Intro to US Latinx Studies
U.S. Latina Literature and Culture
Narratives of Im/migration
Chicanx Literature and Culture
Latin American Women Writers
Feminist Theory
Writing in Spanish
Advanced Spanish Grammar
Elementary Spanish I
Intermediate Spanish I
New Student Seminar
Professional Service:
Chair, International Comic Arts Forum
Past President, Comics Studies Society
Professional Memberships:
Comics Studies Society (founding member)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
2024 Michigan State University
2019 Towards a New Transamerican Artivism: Triangulating Narrative Strategies of Resistance in Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer. Sol-Con, Ohio State University, September 25.
2018 Art as Activism: Comics Testimony in Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer. Ohio Wesleyan University, September 27.
2017 El cómic feminista latinoamericano. Viñetas del fin del mundo (interview series hosted by Carlos Reyes). Santiago, Chile, August 21.
2017 Conversando con Brittany Tullis. La Polola: el podcast de cómic femenino de Sol Díaz y Maliki 4 Ojos (episodio 50). Galería PLOP. Santiago, Chile, August 20.
2017 La mujer en el cómic latin(x)americano: De la representación a la autoría. Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Santiago, Chile, August 16.
2015 Comics in the Hispanic World. World Affairs Council of the Quad Cities Lecture Series, Bettendorf, Iowa, January 27.
Contact
Brittany Tullis
Spanish and Latinx Studies
Ambrose Hall
518 W. Locust St.
Davenport, IA 52803
563-333-6021
TullisBrittanyN@sau.edu