Catherine Labio publishes and receives 2017 Max Nänny Prize for best article in Word and Image Studies

Professor Catherine Labio was recently awarded the 2017 Max Nänny Prize for best article in Word and Image Studies for “The Architecture of Comics” (Critical Inquiry 41.2 [2015]: 312–343). The prize is awarded triennially by the International Association of Word and Image Studies.

Professor Labio also recently published three articles:

• “‘Belgium Is an Industrialist’: Pride and Exploitation in the Black Country, 1850–1900,” in Nature's Mirror: Reality and Symbol in Belgian Landscape, ed. Jeffery Howe, catalogue of the exhibition held September 10 - December 10, 2017 (Chestnut Hill, MA: Boston College, McMullen Museum of Art, 2017), 49–61. See here for more information on the exhibition.
• “The Inherent Three-Dimensionality of Comics,” in Bande Dessinée: Thinking Outside the Boxes, ed. Laurence Grove and Michael Syrotinski, Yale French Studies 131/132 (Spring 2017), 84–100.
• “Le Rêve de Law au pays du désespoir” [Law’s Dream in the Land of Despair], in “Gagnons sans savoir comment!” Représentations du Système de Law du XVIIIe à nos jours, ed. Florence Magnot-Ogilvy (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, coll. Interférences, 2017), 245–263.