Amie Wright
Graduate Researcher
| Degrees: | B.A. History Honours (Concordia), MLIS (Western), M.A. History (Concordia), Ph.D. Candidate History (Carleton) |
| Email: | amiewright@cmail.carleton.ca |
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Amie’Wright is a Public History PhD Candidate at Carleton and an instructor in the History Department teaching the public history course, HIST 3909 History Through Comic Books. A former librarian Amie is also a contract instructor at McGill’s Graduate School of Information Studies teaching information behaviour and information retrieval. Amie’s research interests include comic books and graphic novels, censorship, visual and popular culture, epistemology, graphic history, archives and critical librarianship, metadata, digital humanities, the history of youth reading, and the classroom as a public history space. Amie’s most recent scholarly article on censorship, Alberta’s Forgotten Censor: The Advisory Board on Objectionable Publications (1954-1976) and the Continued Campaign against Comics Post-1954, appeared in a special issue of Canadian Literature: The Pasts, Presents, and Futures of Canadian Comics (no. 249, November 2022).