Academic publications, journals, papers and projects.
Growing rapidly in popularity with an English-speaking audience in the last twenty years, the graphic novel is amongst the most recent incarnations of the comic strip, an art form that was radically new in the nineteenth century. Today, the audience for graphic novels is sophisticated and pro-active, demanding that the form achieves the high status of ‘literature’.
Bringing exciting research to this burgeoning, non-academic audience is crucial to the development of the practice, scholarship and status of comics as an art, with fans, critics and a healthy, accessible market. To this end, I author and draw graphic novels as well as studying them, bringing my scholarship to bear on my production and vice versa.
I am Professor of Art and Design in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Chester, UK.
Bringing exciting research to this burgeoning, non-academic audience is crucial to the development of the practice, scholarship and status of comics as an art, with fans, critics and a healthy, accessible market. To this end, I author and draw graphic novels as well as studying them, bringing my scholarship to bear on my production and vice versa.
I am Professor of Art and Design in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Chester, UK.
Research Awards
2022– 2025 AHRC Standard Grant (£809,000). Principal Investigator: Professor Michelle Keown, Co-investigators: Dr Simon Grennan, Dr Shari Sabeti. 3 years. 'Remediating Stevenson...'
2014–2016: AHRC Early Career Research Grant (£214,000). Principal Investigator: Dr Simon Grennan. Co-Investigators: Professor Roger Sabin, Dr Julian Waite. 2 years. 'Marie Duval p[resents...'
2015: Finalist. BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers.
2012–2015: Druwe Fund Grant, KU Leuven (£75,000). Principal Investigator: Dr Simon Grennan, Co-investigators: Professor Jan Baetens, Professor David Skilton, Professor Ortwin de Graef, Dr Frederik Van Dam. 3 years. 'Dispossession...'
2008: Doctoral Scholarship. University of the Arts (Wimbledon). 3 years.
2014–2016: AHRC Early Career Research Grant (£214,000). Principal Investigator: Dr Simon Grennan. Co-Investigators: Professor Roger Sabin, Dr Julian Waite. 2 years. 'Marie Duval p[resents...'
2015: Finalist. BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers.
2012–2015: Druwe Fund Grant, KU Leuven (£75,000). Principal Investigator: Dr Simon Grennan, Co-investigators: Professor Jan Baetens, Professor David Skilton, Professor Ortwin de Graef, Dr Frederik Van Dam. 3 years. 'Dispossession...'
2008: Doctoral Scholarship. University of the Arts (Wimbledon). 3 years.
Authored Books
Grennan, S. (2022) Thinking about Drawing. London: Bloomsbury
Grennan, S. Erin La Cour and Rik Spanjers et al (2021) Key Terms in Comics Studies. New York: Palgrave
Grennan, S. Roger Sabin and Julian Waite. (2020) Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist. Manchester: Manchester University Press
Grennan, S. (2018) Drawing in Drag by Marie Duval. London: Book Works
Grennan, S. Roger Sabin and Julian Waite. (2018) Marie Duval. London: Myriad
Grennan, S, Ernesto Priego and Peter Wilkins (2018) Parables of Care: creative responses top dementia care as told by carers London: City University of London
Grennan, S. (2017) A Theory of Narrative Drawing. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Grennan, S. (2015) Dispossession. London: Jonathan Cape.
Grennan, S. (2015) Courir deux lièvres. Brussels: Les Impressions Nouvelles.
Grennan, S. Erin La Cour and Rik Spanjers et al (2021) Key Terms in Comics Studies. New York: Palgrave
Grennan, S. Roger Sabin and Julian Waite. (2020) Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist. Manchester: Manchester University Press
Grennan, S. (2018) Drawing in Drag by Marie Duval. London: Book Works
Grennan, S. Roger Sabin and Julian Waite. (2018) Marie Duval. London: Myriad
Grennan, S, Ernesto Priego and Peter Wilkins (2018) Parables of Care: creative responses top dementia care as told by carers London: City University of London
Grennan, S. (2017) A Theory of Narrative Drawing. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Grennan, S. (2015) Dispossession. London: Jonathan Cape.
Grennan, S. (2015) Courir deux lièvres. Brussels: Les Impressions Nouvelles.
Book Editorial
Grennan, S. and Laurence Grove. (Eds.) (2015) Transforming Anthony Trollope: 'Dispossession', Victorianism and 19th century word and image. Leuven: Leuven University Press.
Book Chapters
Grennan, S. (2025) Comics. In Sandiwell, B. (Ed.) Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Visual Culture. London: Bloomsbury
Grennan, S. (2022) Ilan Manouach’s 'Abrégé de bande dessinée franco-belge': ontography and the past and future of stories. In Maura, P. (Ed.) Ilan Manouach Critical Reader New York: Palgrave
Grennan, S. (2022) Comics Drawing: A (Poly)Graphic History. In Ahmed, M. (Ed.) Cambridge Companion to Comics Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Grennan, S. (2022) The Brontës and Illustration: private sketches and public representations. In Wynne, D. (Ed.) Edinburgh Companion to the Brontës and the Arts Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
Grennan, S., Sabin, R, and Waite, J. (2022) Marie Duval: The methods and politics of attribution. In Devereaux, J. (Ed.) Nineteenth-century Women Illustrators Manchester: Manchester University Press
Grennan, S. (2020) ‘Drawing in Drag by Marie Duval’: subjective reformation in the production of a new pseudonymous comic album by Simon Grennan. In Friant-Kessler, B (Ed.) Practices in Word and Image Studies Nancy: Presses Universitaires de Nancy, pp. 59–85
Grennan, S. (2018) ‘The Marie Duval Archive’: memory and the development of the comic strip canon in Ahmed, M. and B. Crucifix (Eds.) Memory in Comics: archives and styles New York: Palgrave
Grennan, S. (2019) "The Enduring Power of Comics" in Chorpening, K. and Fortnum, R. (Eds.) A Companion to Contemporary Drawing London: Wiley Blackwell
Grennan, S. (2017) "The Influence of Manga on Graphic Novels" in Baetens, J., Frey, H., and Tabachnick, S. (Eds.) The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Grennan, S. (2017) "Failing recognition: habit, facture and imagination in the work of Andrei Molotiu and Carlos Nine" in Rommens, A. and Turnes, P. (Eds.) Abstraction and Comics. Liege: University Press of Liege.
Grennan, S. and Miers, J. (2015) "Dispossession: time, motion and depictive regimes" in Grennan, S. and Grove, L (Eds.) Transforming Anthony Trollope: 'Dispossession', Victorianism and 19th century word and image. Leuven: Leuven University Press.
Grennan, S. (2014) "Recognition and resemblance: facture, imagination and ideology in depictions of cultural difference" in Hague, I. and Catherine Anyaka (Eds.) Representing multiculturalism in comics and graphic novels. London: Routledge.
Grennan, S. and Skilton, D. (2014) “’Dispossession': considering drawing style, genre and register in a new comic strip adaptation of Anthony Trollope's 1878 novel 'John Caldigate'” in Saltzman, E. and Tabachnick, S. (Eds.) Drawn on the Classics: Essays on Graphic Adaptations of Literary Works. New York: McFarland.
Grennan, S. (2013) "Competence in your own enactment: subjectivity and the theorisation of participatory art" in Round, J. and Thomas, B. (Eds.) Real lives, real stories: narrative of ordinary and extraordinary people across media. Bristol: Intellect.
Grennan, S. (2022) Ilan Manouach’s 'Abrégé de bande dessinée franco-belge': ontography and the past and future of stories. In Maura, P. (Ed.) Ilan Manouach Critical Reader New York: Palgrave
Grennan, S. (2022) Comics Drawing: A (Poly)Graphic History. In Ahmed, M. (Ed.) Cambridge Companion to Comics Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Grennan, S. (2022) The Brontës and Illustration: private sketches and public representations. In Wynne, D. (Ed.) Edinburgh Companion to the Brontës and the Arts Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
Grennan, S., Sabin, R, and Waite, J. (2022) Marie Duval: The methods and politics of attribution. In Devereaux, J. (Ed.) Nineteenth-century Women Illustrators Manchester: Manchester University Press
Grennan, S. (2020) ‘Drawing in Drag by Marie Duval’: subjective reformation in the production of a new pseudonymous comic album by Simon Grennan. In Friant-Kessler, B (Ed.) Practices in Word and Image Studies Nancy: Presses Universitaires de Nancy, pp. 59–85
Grennan, S. (2018) ‘The Marie Duval Archive’: memory and the development of the comic strip canon in Ahmed, M. and B. Crucifix (Eds.) Memory in Comics: archives and styles New York: Palgrave
Grennan, S. (2019) "The Enduring Power of Comics" in Chorpening, K. and Fortnum, R. (Eds.) A Companion to Contemporary Drawing London: Wiley Blackwell
Grennan, S. (2017) "The Influence of Manga on Graphic Novels" in Baetens, J., Frey, H., and Tabachnick, S. (Eds.) The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Grennan, S. (2017) "Failing recognition: habit, facture and imagination in the work of Andrei Molotiu and Carlos Nine" in Rommens, A. and Turnes, P. (Eds.) Abstraction and Comics. Liege: University Press of Liege.
Grennan, S. and Miers, J. (2015) "Dispossession: time, motion and depictive regimes" in Grennan, S. and Grove, L (Eds.) Transforming Anthony Trollope: 'Dispossession', Victorianism and 19th century word and image. Leuven: Leuven University Press.
Grennan, S. (2014) "Recognition and resemblance: facture, imagination and ideology in depictions of cultural difference" in Hague, I. and Catherine Anyaka (Eds.) Representing multiculturalism in comics and graphic novels. London: Routledge.
Grennan, S. and Skilton, D. (2014) “’Dispossession': considering drawing style, genre and register in a new comic strip adaptation of Anthony Trollope's 1878 novel 'John Caldigate'” in Saltzman, E. and Tabachnick, S. (Eds.) Drawn on the Classics: Essays on Graphic Adaptations of Literary Works. New York: McFarland.
Grennan, S. (2013) "Competence in your own enactment: subjectivity and the theorisation of participatory art" in Round, J. and Thomas, B. (Eds.) Real lives, real stories: narrative of ordinary and extraordinary people across media. Bristol: Intellect.
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Grennan, S (2024) A Temporal Model and Visual Learning: Drawing as Cause and Consequence. International Journal of Art and Design Education.
Grennan, S and Leo Hall (2019) Literary and Historic Flâneuses: Observation, Commentary, Enterprise and Courage in Late-Nineteenth-Century Women’s Professional Lives. Journal of Victorian Culture Vol 20, Number 20, p 1-19
Grenann, S and I. Hague (2018) Medium, Knowledge, Structure: capacities for choice and the contradiction of medium-specificity in games and comics. Image & Narrative, 19 (1)
Grennan, S. (2016) Misrecognising Misrecognition: the Capacity to Influence in the Milieux of Comics and Fine Art. Image [&] Narrative Issue 17.4.
Grennan, S. (2015) Arts practice and research: locating alterity and expertise. International Journal of Art and Design Education (iJADE), 34.2, P95 – 105.
Grennan, S. (2014) Drawing ‘Dispossession’: A New Graphic Adaptation of Anthony Trollope’s Novel ‘John Caldigate’. European Comic Art, Vol 7, Issue 2
Grennan, S. (2013) Register in the guise of genre: instrumental adaptation in the early comics of Grennan & Sperandio. Studies in Comics, Volume 4, Issue 1.
Grennan, S and Leo Hall (2019) Literary and Historic Flâneuses: Observation, Commentary, Enterprise and Courage in Late-Nineteenth-Century Women’s Professional Lives. Journal of Victorian Culture Vol 20, Number 20, p 1-19
Grenann, S and I. Hague (2018) Medium, Knowledge, Structure: capacities for choice and the contradiction of medium-specificity in games and comics. Image & Narrative, 19 (1)
Grennan, S. (2016) Misrecognising Misrecognition: the Capacity to Influence in the Milieux of Comics and Fine Art. Image [&] Narrative Issue 17.4.
Grennan, S. (2015) Arts practice and research: locating alterity and expertise. International Journal of Art and Design Education (iJADE), 34.2, P95 – 105.
Grennan, S. (2014) Drawing ‘Dispossession’: A New Graphic Adaptation of Anthony Trollope’s Novel ‘John Caldigate’. European Comic Art, Vol 7, Issue 2
Grennan, S. (2013) Register in the guise of genre: instrumental adaptation in the early comics of Grennan & Sperandio. Studies in Comics, Volume 4, Issue 1.
Grennan, S. (2012) Demonstrating discours: two comic strip projects in self-constraint. Studies in Comics, Volume 2, Issue 2.
Peer Reviewed Conference Papers
Grennan, S (2024) Domestication, foreignisation, translocality, relativism and hypernationalism in ‘Astro Boy’, ‘Roni’n and a new graphic adaptation by Solomon Enos. British Academy Conference ‘The Business of Comics’, Chester and Chichester Universities.
Grennan, S. (2024) The body as idea: narrative drawing, mind and categories of knowledge. International Society for the Study of Narrative Conference. Newcastle University.
Grennan, S. (2023) Keynote: A Temporal Model and Visual Learning: Drawing as Cause and Consequence. International Journal of Art and Design Education Conference, Chester.
Grennan, S. (2023) Dicing bande dessinée: an idea of comics, systematic redaction and systematic production in Ilan Manouache’s ‘Abrégé de bande dessinée franco-belge’ (‘Compendium of Franco-Belgian Comics’). Comics Forum, Leeds
Grennan, S. (2022) Feeling drawing: emotion, environmental change and story. Third International Comics Conference, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Grennan, S. (2022) The ethics of 'Drawing in Drag': marking, identity and coercion. International Comics and Graphic Novels Conference 2022, Dun Laoghaire
Grennan, S. (2021) Attribution shapes the present: the erasure and revival of Marie Duval. Comics/Histories. Gesellschaft für Comicforschung, Stockholm, Frankfurt, Braunschweig
Grennan, S. (2021) Before the ‘meanwhile’ of comics: social ambiguity, unorthodox visual synchronicity and plot divergence in Augustus Egg’s 1858 triptych “Past and Present”. ACME+ Comics Comics on the Outside, Free University of Brussels
Grennan, S. (2021) “The Irony of the Situation”: imagining a new readership of young urban women, in word and image, in “The Girl of the Period Miscellany, 1869”. International Graphic Novel & Comics and the International Bande Dessinnée Society, University of Cambridge
Grennan, S. R. Sabin and J. Waite (2021) Keynote: Marie Duval: Maverick Victorian Cartoonist Victorian Studies Association of Ontario
Grennan, S, E. Priego and P. Wilkins (2020) Ambiguity, Empathy and Narrative Co-Design: The User Experience of Reading Dementia Care Comic International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference, University of the Arts London
Grennan, S. (2019) Keynote: An introduction to the phenomenology of comics. AG Comicsforschung, Berlin
Grennan, S. (2019) Drawing’s stories: an introduction to drawing and narrative. Comics Forum, Leeds
Grennan, S. (2019) ‘Ong continong’ (on the continent): Marie Duval’s visualisations of British tourists in Europe in the 1870s and 1880s. Victorians and Europe Conference, University of Buckingham
Grennan, S. (2019) Transnational transmedia: selling and reselling Manga and the Graphic Novel. Studies in Transnational Comics, London College of Communication
Grennan, S. (2019) Visualising, Performing and Producing a ‘Woman of Business’: Marie Duval’s media enterprise in 1870s and 1880s London. Theatre and Visuality in the Long Nineteenth Century onference, University of Warwick
Grennan, S. (2019) Storyworld: exempary similarities in the pasts and futures of stories in the work of Manouach, Molotiu and Marvel. Graphic Novels and Comics and International Bande Dessinée Society Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University
Grennan, S. (2018) Expectation, existing knowledge and journal serialisation in Marie Duval’s comic parodies of the annual Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions, 1870 – 1880. International Summer School ‘Coherence & Interruption: Seriality in Periodicals’ Ruhr-University Bochum
Grennan, S. (2018) Journal serialisation and the patterning of events: Marie Duval parodies the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions of 1870, 1873, 1875, 1876, 1878 and 1880. British Association of Victorian Studies Conference, Exeter University.
Grennan, S. (2018) The Comics of Marie Duval: Page, Stage and Street in 1870s London. Nordic Summer University ‘Comics and Society’, Turku.
Grennan, S. (2018) Parables of Care. Second Comics Conference, University of Amsterdam.
Grennan, S. (2018) Drawing in Drag: self-observation, the dissenting subject and stylistic reformation in the production of a new pseudonymous comic album. ‘Creating Comics, Creative Comics' Symposium, University of South Wales.
Grennan, S, Ernesto Priego and Peter Wilkins (2018) Hypotactic correspondences between Yonkoma four panel manga, emotional ambiguity and story, in styling and drawing the comic ‘Parables of Care: creative responses to dementia care’. ‘Creating Comics, Creative Comics' Symposium, University of South Wales.
Grennan, S. and Roger Sabin (2018) The Marie Duval Archive: Memory and the Development of the Comic Strip Canon. Ninth International Graphic Novels and Comic Conference, Bournemouth.
Grennan, S. (2017) Language bordering depiction: Cohn’s ‘visual language’ theory contradicted by experience of the iconic sign. International Conference of Graphic Novels, Bandes Dessinées and Comics, Dundee.
Grennan, S. (2017) Constrained drawing in Seth’s’ 'Clyde Fans Book One’. IAWIS/AIERTI Triennial Conference, University of Lausanne.
Grennan, Ian and I. Hague (2017) What happened and what happens: choice and the significance of pre-existent stories in comics and games narratives. Narrative and Alternative Stories Conference. University of Chester.
Wilkins, P, Ernesto Priego and Simon Grennan (2017) Parables of Care: instrumentality, aesthetics and utility in devising a comic for dementia caregivers. Comics and Medicine Conference, Seattle.
Grennan, S and L. Hall (2017) Literary and historic ‘flâneuses’: observation, commentary, enterprise and courage in late nineteenth-century women’s professional lives. Talking Bodies Conference, University of Chester.
Grennan, S. (2016) Drawing contra enunciation: mark, body and mind in conceptions of trace and index, from Francis Bacon to Philippe Marion. iJADE conference, University of Chester.
Grennan, S. (2016) Dumping the Body: graphiation as mind, mark and trace. Seventh International Conference on Graphic Novels and Comics, Manchester Metropolitan University.
Grennan, S. and I. Hague (2016) Medium, Knowedge, Structure: capacities for choice and the contradiction of medim-specificity in games and comics. ACME Research Group Conference, University of Liege.
Grennan, S. (2016) Vision, Visulisation and Resemblance: depiction and abstraction in two comics by Nine and Molotiu. Comics in Culture Conference, Uniwersytet SWPS Warsaw.
Grennan, S. (2015) ‘Dispossession’: uses of encumbrance and constraint in visualising Trollope’s style, in a a new graphic adaptation of his 1878-79 novel ‘John Caldigate’, Trollope Bicentennial Conference, KU Leuven.
Grennan, S. (2015) Misrecognising misrecognition: the capacity to influence in the milieux of comics and fine art, Amsterdam Comics Conference
Grennan, S. and Sabin, R. (2015) Being at home abroad: Londoners ‘ong continong’ (on the continent) in the 19th century comics of Marie Duval, 9th International Bande Desinee Society Conference, Paris.
Grennan, S. (2015) Journeys of the self: Marion’s partial ‘mediagenius’ and the motive reader in comparitive theories of intersubjectivity, 6th Graphic Novel and Comics Conference and 9th Bande Desinee Society Conference, Paris.
Grennan, S (2015) The facture of ‘Dispossession’: trace, colour, light and time in a new graphic adaptation of Trollope’s 1879 novel ‘John Caldigate’, Comics and Adaptation, University of Leicester.
Grennan, S., Sabin, R. and Waite, J. (2015) Depiction as comedy and truth: women’s dress in Marie Duval’s drawings for ‘Judy’ 1869 – 1885, Dressing and Undressing the Victorians, University of Chester.
Grennan, S. (2014) Rationalising practice as research: making a new graphic adaptation of a Trollope novel of 1879, League of European Research Universities SSH Group, Cambridge.
Grennan, S. and Hague, I. (2014) Play as narration: ‘Composition No1’ and ‘Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim’, 9th ComFor Conference, Berlin.
Grennan, S. (2014) Plot, picture and practice: comics, picture books and illustrated literary fiction, Retrieving Illustration Conference, University of Agder, Norway.
Grennan, S. and Hague, I. (2014) It's a book! It's a game! It's 'Building Stories'! Play, Plot and Narration in Graphic Narrative, Fifth International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference, London.
Grennan, S. (2014) 'Dispossession': Considering Drawing Style, Genre and Register in a New Graphic Adaptation of Anthony Trollope's 1878-79 Novel 'John Caldigate', International Association of Word and Image Studies Conference, Dundee.
Grennan, S. (2013) From time to time: the untold stories of depictive drawings, International Bande Desinée Society, University of Glasgow.
Grennan, S. (2012) Empowerment requires power: absence, equilibrium and the capacity to influence in comics representations of cultural difference, Comics Forum, Leeds.
Grennan, S. (2012) Demonstrating discours: two comic strip projects in self-constraint. First International Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels, Alcala de Henares.
Grennan, S. (2012) Register in the guise of genre: instrumental adaptation in the early comics of Grennan & Sperandio. Third International Comics Conference, Bournemouth.
Grennan, S. (2012) Drawing and adjudication: subjectivity and consensus in theory and practice.Drawing Research Network Conference, Loughborough.
Grennan, S. (2011) Demonstrating discours: two comic strip projects in self-constraint’ Comica Conference 'Transitions 2', London.
Grennan, S. (2010) The story of the story: alterity, intentionality and subjectivity in comics theory and practice, paper presented to Comics Forum, Leeds.
Grennan, S. (2010) Three experiments with drawing style: time and the displaced subject in comic strips, International Association for Media and Communications Research Conference, Braga.
Grennan, S. (2010) Positioning style: genre and the displacement of the subject in contemporary English language comic strips, Graphic Novels and Comics Conference, Manchester.
Grennan, S. (2010) Reading Seth through appropriation theory, College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago.
Grennan, S. (2024) The body as idea: narrative drawing, mind and categories of knowledge. International Society for the Study of Narrative Conference. Newcastle University.
Grennan, S. (2023) Keynote: A Temporal Model and Visual Learning: Drawing as Cause and Consequence. International Journal of Art and Design Education Conference, Chester.
Grennan, S. (2023) Dicing bande dessinée: an idea of comics, systematic redaction and systematic production in Ilan Manouache’s ‘Abrégé de bande dessinée franco-belge’ (‘Compendium of Franco-Belgian Comics’). Comics Forum, Leeds
Grennan, S. (2022) Feeling drawing: emotion, environmental change and story. Third International Comics Conference, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Grennan, S. (2022) The ethics of 'Drawing in Drag': marking, identity and coercion. International Comics and Graphic Novels Conference 2022, Dun Laoghaire
Grennan, S. (2021) Attribution shapes the present: the erasure and revival of Marie Duval. Comics/Histories. Gesellschaft für Comicforschung, Stockholm, Frankfurt, Braunschweig
Grennan, S. (2021) Before the ‘meanwhile’ of comics: social ambiguity, unorthodox visual synchronicity and plot divergence in Augustus Egg’s 1858 triptych “Past and Present”. ACME+ Comics Comics on the Outside, Free University of Brussels
Grennan, S. (2021) “The Irony of the Situation”: imagining a new readership of young urban women, in word and image, in “The Girl of the Period Miscellany, 1869”. International Graphic Novel & Comics and the International Bande Dessinnée Society, University of Cambridge
Grennan, S. R. Sabin and J. Waite (2021) Keynote: Marie Duval: Maverick Victorian Cartoonist Victorian Studies Association of Ontario
Grennan, S, E. Priego and P. Wilkins (2020) Ambiguity, Empathy and Narrative Co-Design: The User Experience of Reading Dementia Care Comic International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference, University of the Arts London
Grennan, S. (2019) Keynote: An introduction to the phenomenology of comics. AG Comicsforschung, Berlin
Grennan, S. (2019) Drawing’s stories: an introduction to drawing and narrative. Comics Forum, Leeds
Grennan, S. (2019) ‘Ong continong’ (on the continent): Marie Duval’s visualisations of British tourists in Europe in the 1870s and 1880s. Victorians and Europe Conference, University of Buckingham
Grennan, S. (2019) Transnational transmedia: selling and reselling Manga and the Graphic Novel. Studies in Transnational Comics, London College of Communication
Grennan, S. (2019) Visualising, Performing and Producing a ‘Woman of Business’: Marie Duval’s media enterprise in 1870s and 1880s London. Theatre and Visuality in the Long Nineteenth Century onference, University of Warwick
Grennan, S. (2019) Storyworld: exempary similarities in the pasts and futures of stories in the work of Manouach, Molotiu and Marvel. Graphic Novels and Comics and International Bande Dessinée Society Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University
Grennan, S. (2018) Expectation, existing knowledge and journal serialisation in Marie Duval’s comic parodies of the annual Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions, 1870 – 1880. International Summer School ‘Coherence & Interruption: Seriality in Periodicals’ Ruhr-University Bochum
Grennan, S. (2018) Journal serialisation and the patterning of events: Marie Duval parodies the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions of 1870, 1873, 1875, 1876, 1878 and 1880. British Association of Victorian Studies Conference, Exeter University.
Grennan, S. (2018) The Comics of Marie Duval: Page, Stage and Street in 1870s London. Nordic Summer University ‘Comics and Society’, Turku.
Grennan, S. (2018) Parables of Care. Second Comics Conference, University of Amsterdam.
Grennan, S. (2018) Drawing in Drag: self-observation, the dissenting subject and stylistic reformation in the production of a new pseudonymous comic album. ‘Creating Comics, Creative Comics' Symposium, University of South Wales.
Grennan, S, Ernesto Priego and Peter Wilkins (2018) Hypotactic correspondences between Yonkoma four panel manga, emotional ambiguity and story, in styling and drawing the comic ‘Parables of Care: creative responses to dementia care’. ‘Creating Comics, Creative Comics' Symposium, University of South Wales.
Grennan, S. and Roger Sabin (2018) The Marie Duval Archive: Memory and the Development of the Comic Strip Canon. Ninth International Graphic Novels and Comic Conference, Bournemouth.
Grennan, S. (2017) Language bordering depiction: Cohn’s ‘visual language’ theory contradicted by experience of the iconic sign. International Conference of Graphic Novels, Bandes Dessinées and Comics, Dundee.
Grennan, S. (2017) Constrained drawing in Seth’s’ 'Clyde Fans Book One’. IAWIS/AIERTI Triennial Conference, University of Lausanne.
Grennan, Ian and I. Hague (2017) What happened and what happens: choice and the significance of pre-existent stories in comics and games narratives. Narrative and Alternative Stories Conference. University of Chester.
Wilkins, P, Ernesto Priego and Simon Grennan (2017) Parables of Care: instrumentality, aesthetics and utility in devising a comic for dementia caregivers. Comics and Medicine Conference, Seattle.
Grennan, S and L. Hall (2017) Literary and historic ‘flâneuses’: observation, commentary, enterprise and courage in late nineteenth-century women’s professional lives. Talking Bodies Conference, University of Chester.
Grennan, S. (2016) Drawing contra enunciation: mark, body and mind in conceptions of trace and index, from Francis Bacon to Philippe Marion. iJADE conference, University of Chester.
Grennan, S. (2016) Dumping the Body: graphiation as mind, mark and trace. Seventh International Conference on Graphic Novels and Comics, Manchester Metropolitan University.
Grennan, S. and I. Hague (2016) Medium, Knowedge, Structure: capacities for choice and the contradiction of medim-specificity in games and comics. ACME Research Group Conference, University of Liege.
Grennan, S. (2016) Vision, Visulisation and Resemblance: depiction and abstraction in two comics by Nine and Molotiu. Comics in Culture Conference, Uniwersytet SWPS Warsaw.
Grennan, S. (2015) ‘Dispossession’: uses of encumbrance and constraint in visualising Trollope’s style, in a a new graphic adaptation of his 1878-79 novel ‘John Caldigate’, Trollope Bicentennial Conference, KU Leuven.
Grennan, S. (2015) Misrecognising misrecognition: the capacity to influence in the milieux of comics and fine art, Amsterdam Comics Conference
Grennan, S. and Sabin, R. (2015) Being at home abroad: Londoners ‘ong continong’ (on the continent) in the 19th century comics of Marie Duval, 9th International Bande Desinee Society Conference, Paris.
Grennan, S. (2015) Journeys of the self: Marion’s partial ‘mediagenius’ and the motive reader in comparitive theories of intersubjectivity, 6th Graphic Novel and Comics Conference and 9th Bande Desinee Society Conference, Paris.
Grennan, S (2015) The facture of ‘Dispossession’: trace, colour, light and time in a new graphic adaptation of Trollope’s 1879 novel ‘John Caldigate’, Comics and Adaptation, University of Leicester.
Grennan, S., Sabin, R. and Waite, J. (2015) Depiction as comedy and truth: women’s dress in Marie Duval’s drawings for ‘Judy’ 1869 – 1885, Dressing and Undressing the Victorians, University of Chester.
Grennan, S. (2014) Rationalising practice as research: making a new graphic adaptation of a Trollope novel of 1879, League of European Research Universities SSH Group, Cambridge.
Grennan, S. and Hague, I. (2014) Play as narration: ‘Composition No1’ and ‘Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim’, 9th ComFor Conference, Berlin.
Grennan, S. (2014) Plot, picture and practice: comics, picture books and illustrated literary fiction, Retrieving Illustration Conference, University of Agder, Norway.
Grennan, S. and Hague, I. (2014) It's a book! It's a game! It's 'Building Stories'! Play, Plot and Narration in Graphic Narrative, Fifth International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference, London.
Grennan, S. (2014) 'Dispossession': Considering Drawing Style, Genre and Register in a New Graphic Adaptation of Anthony Trollope's 1878-79 Novel 'John Caldigate', International Association of Word and Image Studies Conference, Dundee.
Grennan, S. (2013) From time to time: the untold stories of depictive drawings, International Bande Desinée Society, University of Glasgow.
Grennan, S. (2012) Empowerment requires power: absence, equilibrium and the capacity to influence in comics representations of cultural difference, Comics Forum, Leeds.
Grennan, S. (2012) Demonstrating discours: two comic strip projects in self-constraint. First International Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels, Alcala de Henares.
Grennan, S. (2012) Register in the guise of genre: instrumental adaptation in the early comics of Grennan & Sperandio. Third International Comics Conference, Bournemouth.
Grennan, S. (2012) Drawing and adjudication: subjectivity and consensus in theory and practice.Drawing Research Network Conference, Loughborough.
Grennan, S. (2011) Demonstrating discours: two comic strip projects in self-constraint’ Comica Conference 'Transitions 2', London.
Grennan, S. (2010) The story of the story: alterity, intentionality and subjectivity in comics theory and practice, paper presented to Comics Forum, Leeds.
Grennan, S. (2010) Three experiments with drawing style: time and the displaced subject in comic strips, International Association for Media and Communications Research Conference, Braga.
Grennan, S. (2010) Positioning style: genre and the displacement of the subject in contemporary English language comic strips, Graphic Novels and Comics Conference, Manchester.
Grennan, S. (2010) Reading Seth through appropriation theory, College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago.
Original Databases and Resources
Grennan, S., Sabin, R., Waite, J. (2016) The Marie Duval Archive www.marieduval.org
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Current Co-supervisor: 2 x PhD candidates
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