Documenting Lives: Comics, Representation, and Activism Across Cultures
暫譯: 記錄生命：跨文化的漫畫、表現與行動主義

這本跨學科的著作探討了圖像敘事如何與緊迫的全球議題互動，這些議題包括身份、創傷、健康、種族不公、 reproductive rights（生育權）、殘障以及生態意識。書中收錄了來自美國、巴西、印度、加拿大和歐洲的貢獻，強調漫畫作為敘事、療癒和行動主義的強大工具。它提供了一個全球相關的交叉視角，涵蓋圖像醫學、性別研究、殘障研究和環境人文等領域。該書分為四個主題部分，展示了視覺敘事如何挑戰主流敘事並促進同理心。書中有章節分析巴西的種族正義漫畫、美國的圖像醫學以及印度的生態敘事，對於漫畫研究、文化研究和視覺藝術領域的學者、學生、教育工作者、藝術家和行動者來說，這本書是必不可少的。它邀請讀者探索漫畫在學術和創意背景下的變革潛力。

Smita Jha is a Professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Roorkee, India. She has published more than 65 papers in refereed journals of literature by Routledge, SAGE, and OUP, and has six books to her credit, the recent one from Bloomsbury, India. She was shortlisted for the Nehru Fulbright Fellowship in 2013, and the Advanced Study Centre Shimla fellowship in 2011, while received the British Columbia fellowship in 2009, and the prestigious Indo-Canadian Shastri Fellowship in 2019. She is the recipient of the Adele Mellen Presidential Award for distinguished scholarship by Edwin Mellen Press, New York. Her present areas of research include comics and graphic narratives and Medical Humanities. Dr Jha has participated in 50+ international conferences and led academic.

Abhilasha Gusain is an Assistant Professor of English in the School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Management, National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK) Surathkal. She completed her PhD (2024) from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Roorkee. Her dissertation examined the graphical representation of the Vietnam War, particularly exploring the themes of trauma, ethics of representation, memory, history, and violence, through the reading of graphic narratives. Her research outputs are published in journals like Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Visual Studies, and 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies. She has presented her work at various international conferences, including the University of Cambridge. She is also the recipient of 'The Sabin Award for Comics Scholarship' (2022). She holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree in English Literature from the University of Delhi. Her research interest lies in Comics Studies.

Amritha R Krishnan is a doctoral research scholar in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee and was a Fulbright scholar at Stony Brook University, New York (2023-2024). Her ongoing doctoral work concentrates on chronic illness narratives by women and graphic medicine. The larger fields within which her doctoral research is embedded are medical humanities, gender studies, memory studies and visual studies. She has presented papers at numerous national and international conferences, including "The Child of the Future" Conference hosted by the University of Cambridge, where she also mediated a session. Her research articles have appeared in the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics.

Smita Jha 是印度羅爾基工業技術學院（IIT Roorkee）人文與社會科學系的英語教授。她在 Routledge、SAGE 和 OUP 的文學期刊上發表了超過 65 篇論文，並出版了六本書籍，其中最近一本由印度的 Bloomsbury 出版。她於 2013 年入圍尼赫魯富布賴特獎學金，2011 年入圍喜馬拉雅高級研究中心獎學金，並於 2009 年獲得不列顛哥倫比亞獎學金，以及 2019 年獲得享有盛譽的印加沙斯特里獎學金。她是紐約 Edwin Mellen Press 頒發的阿黛爾·梅倫總統獎的獲得者，以表彰其卓越的學術成就。她目前的研究領域包括漫畫和圖形敘事以及醫學人文學。Jha 博士參加了 50 多個國際會議並主導學術活動。

Abhilasha Gusain 是印度卡納塔克國立技術學院（NITK）蘇拉特卡爾人文、社會科學與管理學院的英語助理教授。她於 2024 年在羅爾基工業技術學院人文與社會科學系完成博士學位。她的論文探討了越南戰爭的圖形表現，特別是通過閱讀圖形敘事來探索創傷、表現倫理、記憶、歷史和暴力等主題。她的研究成果發表在《圖形小說與漫畫期刊》、《視覺研究》和《3L：東南亞英語語言研究期刊》等期刊上。她在各種國際會議上展示了她的工作，包括劍橋大學。她還獲得了「漫畫學術薩賓獎」（2022）。她擁有德里大學的英語文學學士和碩士學位。她的研究興趣在於漫畫研究。

Amritha R Krishnan 是印度羅爾基工業技術學院人文與社會科學系的博士研究學者，並於 2023-2024 年在紐約的石溪大學擔任富布賴特學者。她目前的博士研究集中於女性的慢性疾病敘事和圖形醫學。她的博士研究嵌入於醫學人文學、性別研究、記憶研究和視覺研究等更大領域。她在多個國內外會議上發表論文，包括劍橋大學主辦的「未來之子」會議，並在會議中擔任了會議主持。她的研究文章已發表在《圖形小說與漫畫期刊》中。