Camila Gutiérrez

Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Visual Studies

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As a scholar of visual and narrative materials, my research often takes interdisciplinary directions. I am interested in the intersections between word and image in the graphic narratives of the world and in their evolution through time. Mainly, I study Japan, Latin America, and Anglo-America and their respective visual cultures, such as comics and video games.  In my dissertation-length work, I connect these cultures through an international exploration of women’s comics cultures.

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ORCID ID 0000-0002-3305-0616

Education

Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Visual Studies, dual-title. 2023, The Pennsylvania State University.

M.A. in Comparative Literature. 2017, The Pennsylvania State University.

B.A. in Secondary Education of English as a Foreign Language. 2012, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

B.A. in Letters, English Linguistics and Literature. 2011, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Research Interests

  • Japanese Literature
  • Visual Culture
  • Global comics, graphic novels, and graphic narratives
  • Gender and Sexuality
  • Participatory Culture

Memberships

  • American Comparative Literature Association.
  • Northeast Modern Languages Association.
  • Modern Languages Association.
  • Association for Japanese Literary Studies.
  • RING Latinoamérica.
  • Red de Estudios Lúdicos Críticos.
  • International Comic Art Forum.
  • Liberal Arts Collective at Penn State.

UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING

  • COM617-2 Lenguaje del Videojuego (2024)
  • CMLIT 110 Reading Across Cultures (Fall 2021)
  • CMLIT 13 Virtual Worlds (Fall 2020 & Spring 2021)
  • ENG 136 The Graphic Novel (Fall 2019
  • CMLIT 13 Virtual Worlds (Spring 2019)
  • CMLIT 191 Video game Cultures (Fall 2018)
  • CMLIT 10 Introduction to World Literature (Fall & Spring 2018)
  • CMLIT 13 International Film and Literature (Summer 2017)

Publications

  • Gutiérrez, Camila. “Boys Love in Latin America: The Migration of Aesthetics in Contemporary Graphic Narrative.” Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature, edited by James Hodapp, Bloomsbury, 2022. Preview in Google Books.
  • Gutiérrez, Camila. “Ruptured Graphic Narrative as a Tool for Intersectional Knowledge: Chicana and Japanese Iconographies in “Flies on the Ceiling” and Skim.” ICAF Conference Proceedings, 2020. View.
  • Gutiérrez, Camila. “From Socialism to Dictatorship: Editorial Ideologies in Chilean Science Fiction and Adventure Comics”. IJOCA, vol 19. no. 1, 2017. Order a copy.
  • Gutiérrez, Camila. “Manga Visuals in Latin America: Gender Diversity beyond the Panel”. Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies: PAJLS, vol. 18, 2017, pp. 38-46. Download.
  • Gutiérrez, Camila. “Bossypants, Autobiography and Women’s Selves”. English Studies in Latin America, no.5, 2013. Download.
  • Gutiérrez, Camila. “Prelinguistic and Linguistic Dimensions in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.” English Studies in Latin America, no.2, 2011. Download.