Hillary Chute

Art Spiegelman and the Inescapable Shadow of Fascism

At one point, Spiegelman enthuses that comics “were time turned into space, a perfect container for memory.” The comics scholar Hillary Chute, who teaches at Northeastern University and provides consistently intelligent commentary in the documentary, picks up on that idea.

Art Spiegelman on Life With a ‘500-Pound Mouse Chasing Me’

“On one level, it’s a deeply formalist book, showing how anti-narrative comics can be, with this avant-garde experimental language that Art is exploring,” said Hillary Chute, a professor of English, art and design at Northeastern University who edited “Maus Now” and has studied Spiegelman’s work for years. “It’s also incredibly personal.”

Why Maus Was Banned

This article is adapted from Maus Now: Selected Writing, edited by Hillary Chute.

Chicago Tribune

Art Spiegelman’s ‘Maus’ is the latest One Book, One Chicago title. It feels like a provocation.

“Spiegelman’s justification, in part, is he is resignifying Nazi propaganda, which called Jews vermin and Poles swine,” said [Hillary] Chute, now a professor at Northeastern University in Boston.