Hillary Chute Distinguished Professor of English and Art + Design h.chute@northeastern.edu (617) 373-4552 Expertise contemporary fiction, media studies Hillary Chute in the Press 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. Hillary Chute for Northeastern Global News Why comics and graphic novels like ‘Maus’ are effective teaching tools Why comics and graphic novels like ‘Maus’ are effective teaching tools Hillary Chute says comics help kids understand "important contemporary issues—about what it means to have an identity that's accepted.”
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.