Dr. Hillary Chute is Distinguished Professor of English and Art + Design at Northeastern University and has taught at Harvard University and the University of Chicago.  She is the author or editor of seven books, including Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics (from Columbia University Press in 2010), Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form (from Harvard University Press in 2016), Why Comics? From Underground to Everywhere (from Harper in 2017), and the recent collection Maus Now: Selected Writing (from Pantheon in 2022).  Chute was also Associate Editor of Art Spiegelman’s MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus (2011).  She has written for venues including Public Books, Artforum, Bookforum, the Village Voice, the Atlantic, the New York Review of Books, and the New York Times Book Review, which began running her “Graphic Content” column (with co-columnist Ed Park) in 2018.