Davida Pines
Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development, Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning, Associate Professor, Rhetoric
Teaching Interests
Rhetoric and composition, nonfiction and autobiographical comics, graphic medicine, 20th-century British and American literature
Research Interests
Marriage and modernist novels, nonfiction and autobiographical comics, graphic medicine, graphic representations of dementia
Selected Publications
“Reframing Alzheimer’s through Comics: A Close Reading of Works by Walrath, Campbell, Farmer, and Roca.” Proceedings of the Graphic Medicine International Collective Annual Conference, July 16-18, 2024. Graphic Medicine Review, 5.1 (2025).
“Lynda Barry’s Syllabus, Neuroscience, and “the Thing We Call Creativity.” Contagious Imagination: The Work and Art of Lynda Barry. Ed. Jane Tolmie. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2022. 48-70. Print.
“Comics, Visibility, and Exposure in Roz Chast’s Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant.” Literature and Belief 40.2 & 41.1 (2021): 83-104. https://christianvalues.byu.edu/current-issue/.
“Negotiating Individual and Collective Memory: Alissa Torres’ American Widow and Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers” in Drawing from Life: Memory and Subjectivity in Comic Art, ed. Jane Tolmie. University of Mississippi Press, 2013.
“Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers” in September 11 in Popular Culture: A Guide, eds. Sara Quay and Amy Domenico. Greenwood, 2010.
The Marriage Paradox: Modernist Novels and the Cultural Imperative to Marry. University ofFlorida Press, 2006.
Other Professional Activity and/or Awards
Outstanding Service Award, CGS, Boston University, 2023
Finalist, Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching, Boston University, 2013
Peyton Richter Award for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Teaching, CGS, Boston University, 2011
Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, Humanities Foundation, Boston University, 2002-2003