Daniel Worden
Associate Professor
Daniel Worden
Associate Professor
Education
BA, Texas Christian University; MA, Ph.D., Brandeis University
Bio
Daniel Worden teaches and writes about American art, comics, print, and visual cultures. He is an Associate Professor in the College of Art & Design.
His new book, Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art & Energy of American Comics, will be published by The Ohio State University Press in August 2024.
Daniel is the author of Neoliberal Nonfictions: The Documentary Aesthetic from Joan Didion to Jay-Z and Masculine Style: The American West and Literary Modernism, which received the Thomas J. Lyon Book Award in Western American Literary and Cultural Studies.
He is also the editor of The Comics of R. Crumb: Underground in the Art Museum and The Comics of Joe Sacco: Journalism in a Visual World, and he co-edited the books New Directions in Print Culture Studies: Archives, Materiality, and Modern American Culture, Oil Culture, and Postmodern/Postwar--and After: Rethinking American Literature. His work on American culture, comics, literature, art, film, television, and oil has also appeared in a number of academic journals and edited volumes.
Daniel's teaching interests cover a range of topics in cultural studies and critical theory, including modernism and postmodernism, gender and sexuality in American culture, comics and graphic novels, nonfiction and documentary, Western and Southwestern arts cultures, the environmental humanities, the cultures of globalization/neoliberalism, periodical studies, and contemporary aesthetics.
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In the News
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March 23, 2023
Rochester Indie Comics Expo runs Friday, Saturday
WROC-TV talks to Daniel Worden, associate professor in the School of Art, and Frances Andreu, digital initiatives librarian, about the Rochester Indie Comic Expo.
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March 29, 2022
College of Art and Design sponsoring Rochester Independent Comics Expo this weekend
An event showcasing more than 30 independent comic artists from across the Northeast and surveying Rochester’s independent video game scene will highlight the third annual Rochester Independent Comics Expo (RICE) this weekend.
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March 15, 2022
College of Art and Design sponsors Rochester Independent Comics Expo
The third annual Rochester Independent Comics Expo (RICE) will bring more than 30 well-known comic artists to the area the first weekend of April.
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April 22, 2024
Worden published in comics studies book
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January 17, 2024
Worden participates in comics studies roundtable
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September 21, 2023
Worden rewrites classic Walter Benjamin essay
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September 8, 2023
Worden contributes essay to ‘Ilan Manouach in Review’