{"product_id":"storied-objects-a-graphic-narrative-reflection-on-material-metaphors-and-digital-writing-9781643175621","title":"Storied Objects: A Graphic Narrative Reflection on Material Metaphors and Digital Writing","description":"Comics and Graphic Narratives\u003cp\u003eSeries Editors: Sergio Figueiredo, Jason Helms, and Anastasia Salter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTORIED OBJECTS\u003c\/strong\u003e is a comics-form monograph that investigates metaphor in digital scholarship through autoethnographic narrative and reflective multimodal methods. ERIN KATHLEEN BAHL examines material metaphor as rhetorical invention strategy through a deep dive into one creator's approach to designing digital scholarship. Her investigation guides readers through illustrative tours of the metaphor-based origin stories behind three published academic webtexts. Bahl offers practical tools for tracking how metaphors shape design and argument together at evolving stages of a project's development, as well as reflective frameworks to inspire readers' own creative-critical practices. Overall, \u003cem\u003eStoried Objects\u003c\/em\u003e illuminates the importance of systematically reflecting on material metaphors that guide our brainstorming processes because they fundamentally influence how our ideas take shape. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a comics-form academic book exploring the creative craft of designing ideas, \u003cem\u003eStoried Objects \u003c\/em\u003ebuilds on foundations laid by scholar-creators such as Scott McCloud (\u003cem\u003eUnderstanding Comics\u003c\/em\u003e), Nick Sousanis (\u003cem\u003eUnflattening\u003c\/em\u003e), Kay Sohini (\u003cem\u003eDrawing Unbelonging\u003c\/em\u003e), Sally Pirie (\u003cem\u003eThe Good, the Bad, and the Data\u003c\/em\u003e), and Jason Helms (\u003cem\u003eRhizcomics\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eErin Kathleen Bahl\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of English (Applied and Professional Writing) at Kennesaw State University in Atlanta, Georgia, as well as the department's inaugural Social Media \u0026amp; Branding Coordinator. Her work focuses on creating knowledge, telling stories, and designing for access via digital scholarship, webcomics, folklore, and interactive narrative. Her scholarship includes publications in\u003cem\u003e Kairos, Computers and Composition Online, enculturation, The Journal of American Folklore, Technical Communication Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Digital Review\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as several edited collections. Her creative work includes digital comics published by the Smithsonian's \u003cem\u003eFolklife Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGraphic RHM\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eVermont Folklife Center\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eVariant Literature\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThrough the Twisted Woods.\u003c\/em\u003e Her digital dissertation on webtexts and invention won the 2018 Hugh Burns Distinguished Dissertation Award. Her 2022 illustrated webtext on audio description (co-authored with Margaret Price) received\u003cem\u003e Kairos's\u003c\/em\u003e Best Webtext Award and was selected for the Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2023. Along with Chris Andrews, she is co-editor for \u003cem\u003eKairos\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Parlor Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51734867345682,"sku":"9781643175621","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_16b586da-e5e3-44d4-9bd7-c21cee35a32f.jpg?v=1763490593","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/storied-objects-a-graphic-narrative-reflection-on-material-metaphors-and-digital-writing-9781643175621","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}