Hillary Chute

Chute's first book Graphic Women (2010) covers the work of Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Phoebe Gloeckner, Lynda Barry, Marjane Satrapi, and Alison Bechdel. Her second academic book Disaster Drawn (2016) investigates how hand-drawn comics has come of age as a serious medium for engaging history. It explores graphic narratives that document the disasters of war by such artists as Jacques Callot, Francisco Goya, Keiji Nakazawa, Art Spiegelman, and Joe Sacco.

Chute's book of interviews with contemporary cartoonists, Outside the Box, was published in 2014. Chute is the Associate Editor of Art Spiegelman’s MetaMaus, which won a 2011 National Jewish Book Award in the category Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, as well as a 2012 Eisner Award in the category of best comics-related book.{{Cite news|url=http://jewishjournal.com/mobile_20111212/100117/|title=Spiegelman among National Jewish Book Awards winners — Jewish Journal|date=2012-01-12|work=Jewish Journal|access-date=2017-05-21|language=en-US}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.newsarama.com/9843-full-list-of-2012-eisner-award-winners.html|title=Full List of 2012 Eisner Award Winners|work=Newsarama|access-date=2017-05-21|language=en}}

In 2006, she co-edited the "Graphic Narrative" special issue of Modern Fiction Studies.{{Cite web|url=http://muse.jhu.edu/issue/11229|title=Project MUSE – MFS Modern Fiction Studies-Volume 52, Number 4, Winter 2006|website=muse.jhu.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-05-21}} She founded the Modern Language Association’s Discussion Group on Comics and Graphic Narratives in 2009.

Chute collaborated with Bechdel in co-teaching the course “Lines of Transmission: Comics and Autobiography” at the University of Chicago as part of a Mellon Grant, and in organizing the “Comics: Philosophy and Practice” conference in 2012.{{Cite web|url=https://graycenter.uchicago.edu/experiments/lines-of-transmission-comics-and-autobiography/comics-philosophy-practice-conference-may-18-20-2012|title=Comics: Philosophy & Practice Conference, May 18–20, 2012 – Lines of Transmission: Comics and Autobiography – Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry – The University of Chicago|website=graycenter.uchicago.edu|access-date=2017-05-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180205000758/https://graycenter.uchicago.edu/experiments/lines-of-transmission-comics-and-autobiography/comics-philosophy-practice-conference-may-18-20-2012|archive-date=2018-02-05|url-status=dead}} In 2014, they co-authored the comics piece “Bartheses” in Critical Inquiry.{{Cite journal|last1=Chute|first1=Hillary|last2=Bechdel|first2=Alison|date=2014-03-01|title=Bartheses: Barthesian Doubt Edition|url=http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/677329|journal=Critical Inquiry|volume=40|issue=3|page=52|doi=10.1086/677329|s2cid=162252065|issn=0093-1896}}

In March 2018, Chute was named a columnist on comics and graphic novels for The New York Times Book Review.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytco.com/introducing-the-book-reviews-new-graphic-novels-and-comics-column/|title=Introducing The Book Review's New Graphic Novels and Comics Column|work=The New York Times Company|access-date=2018-04-22|language=en-US}} Chute has written for Poetry about the relation of comics and poetry, reported for Artforum from San Diego Comic-Con, and reviewed comics for The New York Review of Books.{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/detail/70022|title=Secret Labor by Hillary Chute|date=2017-05-21|website=Poetry Foundation|language=en-us|access-date=2017-05-21}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.artforum.com/diary/id=62445|title=Hillary Chute at the 47th Comic-Con in San Diego|last=Chute|first=Hillary|work=artforum.com|access-date=2017-05-21|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/05/01/a-man-alone-in-a-comic-book-guy-delisle/|title=A Man Alone in a Comic Book|last=Chute|first=Hillary|website=The New York Review of Books|date=May 2017 |access-date=2017-05-21}} Her book Why Comics?: From Underground to Everywhere (2017) was named one of the Best Books of 2017 by Kirkus Reviews and one of the "100 Notable Books of 2018" by The New York Times.{{Cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/lists/best-music-and-entertainment-books-2017/|title=Best Music and Entertainment Books of 2017 (pg. 1)|website=Kirkus Reviews|language=en|access-date=2019-02-13}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/19/books/review/100-notable-books.html,%20https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/19/books/review/100-notable-books.html|title=100 Notable Books of 2018|date=2018-11-19|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-02-13|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}

• Why Comics?: From Underground to Everywhere (HarperCollins, 2017)
• Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics and Documentary Form (Harvard University Press, 2016)
• Comics & Media: A Critical Inquiry Book, co-edited with Patrick Jagoda (University of Chicago Press, 2014)
• Outside the Box: Interviews with Contemporary Cartoonists (University of Chicago Press, 2014)
• MetaMaus by Art Spiegelman, Associate Editor (Pantheon Books, 2011)
• Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics (Columbia University Press, 2010)

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• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouO0emqe7AM Hillary Chute discussing Why Comics? with Sarah Larson at the Society of Illustrators (2018).]
• [http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/166047 "Why I Study Comics: An Interview with Hillary Chute" (2017 History News Network interview).]
• [https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2015/12/12/story-behind-book-hillary-chute-drawing-disasters/VE6QFNNnmajoICksV3L1zO/story.html "Hillary Chute on using cartoons to tell real stories about war" (2015 Boston Globe profile).]
• [https://news.uchicago.edu/article/2014/07/28/chute-goes-outside-box-new-book-contemporary-comics "Chute goes 'Outside the Box' in new book on contemporary comics" (2014 UChicagoNews interview).]
• [https://www.c-span.org/video/?416423-3/panel-discussion-graphic-nonfiction C-Span recording of "Graphic Nonfiction: Telling the Story with Words and Pictures," panel at 2016 Boston Book Festival, featuring Hillary Chute, Alexander Danner, and Sarah Glidden (2016)]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P46qJVKxGo8 Hillary Chute interviewing Scott McCloud about The Sculptor at the Brattle Theater (2015)]
• [http://wexarts.org/public-programs/daniel-clowes-and-hillary-chute Hillary Chute interviewing Daniel Clowes at the Wexner Center for the Arts (2014)]
• [http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/hillary_chute_interviews_alison_bechdel/ Hillary Chute interviewing Alison Bechdel for Critical Inquiry (2011)]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vnb2D4FySro Hillary Chute interviewing Art Spiegelman at 92nd Street Y (2011)]
• Hand, Elizabeth (18 April 2016). [http://bostonreview.net/books-ideas/elizabeth-hand-hillary-l-chute-disaster-drawn "The Look of Disaster: Comic Books as a Documentary Form"] (review of Disaster Drawn). Boston Review.
• Samarov, Dmitry (9 March 2016). [http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/ct-prj-disaster-drawn-hilary-chute-20160309-story.html "Hillary Chute's 'Disaster Drawn' argues illustrations, comics capture true horror of war"] (review of Disaster Drawn). Chicago Tribune.
• {{cite news|last1=Berlatsky|first1=Noah|title=The Promise—and the Danger—of Comparing Comic Books to Poetry|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/08/the-promise-and-the-danger-of-comparing-comic-books-to-poetry/278430|newspaper=The Atlantic|date=7 August 2013}}

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