Amie Wright
Research Assistant
| 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 is the co-editor of a special issue of International Public History (vol 7, issue 2) to focus on Graphic History (2024) and the author of, Teaching History Through Comic Books: Opportunities for Public & Visual History (2024) and Alberta’s Forgotten Censor: The Advisory Board on Objectionable Publications (1954-1976) and the Continued Campaign against Comics Post-1954 (2022).