Knowledge Commons | Joshua Begley | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/joshbegley/activity/ Activity feed for Joshua Begley. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:56:09 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 6451f3e5613128baaea11e7e026b3227 Joshua Begley replied to the topic Citing Comics in the forum Comics and Graphic Narratives http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/comics-and-graphic-narratives/forum/topic/citing-comics/#post-6023 Thu, 04 Dec 2014 13:37:10 -0500 Hi, Amanda,

I don't know if this helps, but I recently wrote an essay about comics for publication, and I had to get permission to use them. I got lucky because one of them was creator-owned, so I could just contact her through Twitter, but the other was owned by Dynamite Comics and was unsuccessful in contacting them.

This was for the journal…[Read more]

]]> 49a3b7ec2447509567e3f0cf25310ff6 Joshua Begley replied to the topic Petition for Literacy Studies forum in the forum The Teaching of Writing http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-writing/forum/topic/petition-for-literacy-studies-forum/#post-3943 Wed, 21 May 2014 00:12:35 -0400 I support this forum as well.

Joshua Begley, Full Sail University

]]> cbba21928632760ffe28ad8529b01fee Joshua Begley replied to the topic Science Fiction Readers Demographics in the forum Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/science-fiction-and-utopian-and-fantastic-literature/forum/topic/science-fiction-readers-demographics/page/2/#post-3467 Thu, 08 May 2014 15:56:42 -0400 I don't know as much about Latin American fantastic literature as I'd like, so I'm very interested in what you had to say, Silvia. In general, it always strikes me as odd how conservative academics can be. And in a broader sense, the whole concept of "legitimate" is troublesome because of the power issues underlying who decides what is and is not,…[Read more]

]]> c26c088c56162c1889f4591d6209de60 Joshua Begley replied to the topic French science-fiction in the forum Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/science-fiction-and-utopian-and-fantastic-literature/forum/topic/french-science-fiction/#post-3466 Thu, 08 May 2014 15:47:05 -0400 I wish the United States were better at carrying translated editions of works. This sounds like a fascinating anthology. I would love to read it!

]]> 829858f25e8eb0b5de252cb42193fbc5 Joshua Begley replied to the topic Science Fiction Readers Demographics in the forum Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/science-fiction-and-utopian-and-fantastic-literature/forum/topic/science-fiction-readers-demographics/page/2/#post-3460 Thu, 08 May 2014 14:36:05 -0400 Oh dear, it looks like I accidentally posted twice. Sorry!

]]> 029c047e5cd4bc697e50b1db3d344fe6 Joshua Begley replied to the topic Science Fiction Readers Demographics in the forum Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/science-fiction-and-utopian-and-fantastic-literature/forum/topic/science-fiction-readers-demographics/page/2/#post-3459 Thu, 08 May 2014 14:35:13 -0400 There are some amazing conversations going on here. Going back to the initial question, why do so many academics fail to recognize SF as a legitimate literature, part of that stems from the rise of the novel and the idea that social realism is--to paraphrase the literary critic F. R. Levis--the only subject worth writing about. This is tied into…[Read more]

]]> 600cee24bcf6c0b4f1e593c4f7f9feaf Joshua Begley replied to the topic Science Fiction Readers Demographics in the forum Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/science-fiction-and-utopian-and-fantastic-literature/forum/topic/science-fiction-readers-demographics/page/2/#post-3458 Thu, 08 May 2014 14:34:08 -0400 There are some amazing conversations going on here. Going back to the initial question, why do so many academics fail to recognize SF as a legitimate literature, part of that stems from the rise of the novel and the idea that social realism is--to paraphrase the literary critic F. R. Levis--the only subject worth writing about. This is tied into…[Read more]

]]>