OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
If staff have any questions about the Oxford Events launch, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
William Kuskin isn’t just Head of English at Boulder. He’s also the person who first introduced me to the academic study of comics, through his 2013 MOOC ‘Comic Books and Graphic Novels’, a fantastic and eye-opening course that inspired hundreds of students across the globe. William’s main research area is the history of the book. He has written and edited books and articles on William Caxton, the emergence of printing in the fifteenth century, the transition from the Middle Ages to Modernity, comic books, and online pedagogy. He contributes to Inside Higher Education and even writes an occasional blog on motorcycling. He will be talking to us on the mouth-watering topic of ‘The Grid: Prefiguration In Ultimate Spider Man’.
