she/her, Danish/Australian, PhD in comics studies and feminist theory. Author of 'Super-Girls of the Future' (Routledge 2023) and co-editor of 'Feminized Work and the Labor of Literature' (w/Emily J. Hogg, Edinburgh UP, May 2025).https://bsky.app/profile/charlottejohanne.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/charlottejohanne.bsky.social/post/3m4lnieo2s22oMy award-winning article on Instagram comics and feminized work is free to read (until April 30 2026)! My thanks to @hypnojoo.bsky.social and the team at @intellectbooks.bsky.social for making this happen. [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Nov 2025 18:43 +0000at://did:plc:pce5t6a2ktyegtfnagjeu6j4/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4lnieo2s22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/charlottejohanne.bsky.social/post/3m3c5cpd7nk2tI am incredibly honoured to be awarded the 2025 Martin Schüwer Publication Prize for Excellence in Comics Studies for my article ‘Drawing in Circles: Feminized Labour in Autobiographical Comics and Cartoons on Instagram’ (supported by the Carlsberg Foundation and published in Studies in Comics)16 Oct 2025 06:35 +0000at://did:plc:pce5t6a2ktyegtfnagjeu6j4/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3c5cpd7nk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/charlottejohanne.bsky.social/post/3lyi2dtdla223Celebrated four years of holding a PhD in comics by teaching Bechdel's Fun Home to a cohort of English students - and managing just exactly not to cry when reading aloud the final page to my students. No matter how many times I teach it, it still gets me.10 Sep 2025 10:42 +0000at://did:plc:pce5t6a2ktyegtfnagjeu6j4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyi2dtdla223https://bsky.app/profile/charlottejohanne.bsky.social/post/3lo4y3h4bns2y’Feminized Work and the Labor of Literature,’ edited by @emilyjhogg.bsky.social and me, is out now with @edinburghup.bsky.social! Working on this book has been an absolute dream – a study in feminist community building and the importance of critically and socially engaged scholarship. 1/01 May 2025 18:50 +0000at://did:plc:pce5t6a2ktyegtfnagjeu6j4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lo4y3h4bns2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/charlottejohanne.bsky.social/post/3lmjjklvat22bToday's teaching opens with one of my absolute favorites by @tomgauld.bsky.social (course is Perspectives in American Studies, today's class is The Ten-Cent Plague Then and Now)11 Apr 2025 07:44 +0000at://did:plc:pce5t6a2ktyegtfnagjeu6j4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmjjklvat22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/charlottejohanne.bsky.social/post/3kg2gssuz2n2sFinally read 'The Claremont Run: Subverting Gender in the X-Men' by Andrew Deman (@sequentialscholars.bsky.social). It's a fun read with keen insights but low-key the best sentence in it might be "His clothes have disintegrated with the exception of his left boot, his exterior briefs, and his belt."08 Dec 2023 17:48 +0000at://did:plc:pce5t6a2ktyegtfnagjeu6j4/app.bsky.feed.post/3kg2gssuz2n2shttps://bsky.app/profile/charlottejohanne.bsky.social/post/3ke3mbatk3c2gSo proud of this article - co-writing with @emilyjhogg.bsky.social was a joy, as was testing out the combination Barbara Pym x Liana Finck! #comicsstudies [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Nov 2023 18:08 +0000at://did:plc:pce5t6a2ktyegtfnagjeu6j4/app.bsky.feed.post/3ke3mbatk3c2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/charlottejohanne.bsky.social/post/3kcg6f32hfi2oMore pub news! My article on superheroic girlhood, violence, and Ms Marvel is out now in the Journal of Popular Culture: https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13273 - a great place to begin if you’re curious about my book on super-girls.23 Oct 2023 12:08 +0000at://did:plc:pce5t6a2ktyegtfnagjeu6j4/app.bsky.feed.post/3kcg6f32hfi2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/charlottejohanne.bsky.social/post/3kbvausmray2u’Super-Girls of the Future’ is out today! Ask a librarian to get you a copy (or buy it here https://www.routledge.com/p/book/9781032478340) if you’re into superhero comics, girlhood studies, comics studies, Ahmedian affect theory, or just want to know why and how Ms Marvel changed super-girls as we knew them.16 Oct 2023 18:38 +0000at://did:plc:pce5t6a2ktyegtfnagjeu6j4/app.bsky.feed.post/3kbvausmray2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/charlottejohanne.bsky.social/post/3kbgcfms6322fCurrent project: the intersection of feminized work and Instagram comics Rent free: would literary studies collapse if more of us admitted that we have little-to-no actual evidence that reading makes you a good/better person? [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Oct 2023 19:55 +0000at://did:plc:pce5t6a2ktyegtfnagjeu6j4/app.bsky.feed.post/3kbgcfms6322f