In this section of the Remediating Stevenson Blog, Michelle Keown, Shari Sabeti and Simon Grennan share their academic publications both underpinning and outcome of the project “Remediating Stevenson: Decolonising Robert Louis Stevenson’s Pacific Fiction through Graphic Adaptation, Arts Education and Community Engagement”.
MICHELLE KEOWN
Academic Peer Reviewed Journal Papers
- Keown, M. (2013) ‘Isle of Voices: Scotland in the Indigenous Pacific Literary Imaginary’, International Journal of Scottish Literature, vol. 9, pp. 51-67.
SHARI SABETI
On comics, adaptation and adolescent reader
- Sabeti, S. (2013) ‘A different kind of reading’: the emergent literacy practices of a school based graphic novel reading group. British Educational Research Journal, 39 (5): 835-852.
- Sabeti, S. (2016). Shakespeare, Adaptation and ‘Matters of Trust’. Cambridge Journal of Education, 47 (3), 337-354.
On arts education methodologies
- Sabeti, S. 2023. ‘You think you know, but you have no idea’: on anger, critical pedagogy and the dilemmas of being a teaching artist. Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 33 (2), 633–653.
- Sabeti, S. 2019. ‘Making Murals in the Marshall Islands and Hawai’i: an exploration of the limits and possibilities of artistic agency in a community education project.’ Special Issue: Creative Engagement in Migration Research. Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture (10:1) 71-87.
Forthcoming outputs from the project
- Sabeti, S. [forthcoming] ‘Ending badly from the beginning’: facing finitude with Robert Louis Stevenson’. In Artful Education and Death: Facing Finitude through Living Pedagogy, ed. MacAllister, J., Affifi, R. and Pirie, A. London: Bloomsbury.
- Sabeti, S. [forthcoming] ‘On observing two Pacific Island poets teach: some reflections on the vā and the artistry of teaching’. In Reclaiming the Artistry of Teaching, ed. Biesta, G. and Affifi, R. London: Bloomsbury.
SIMON GRENNAN
Monograph Publications
- Grennan, S. (2026) Thinking About Comics London: Bloomsbury
- Grennan, S. (2022) Thinking About Drawing London: Bloomsbury
- Grennan, S. (2017) A Theory of Narrative Drawing. New York: Palgrave
Co-Authored Publications
- Grennan, S., E. Priego, & P. Wilkins (2017) Parables of Care. Creative Responses to Dementia Care, As Told by Carers. London: City, University of London, plus German and Spanish translations
Edited Publications
- Grennan, S. and L. Grove (Eds.) (2015) Transforming Anthony Trollope: ‘Dispossession’, Victorianism and 19th century word and image. Leuven: Leuven University Press
Chapters
- Grennan, S. (2023) Comics Drawing: A (Poly)Graphic History. In Ahmed, M. (Ed.) Cambridge Companion to Comics Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Grennan, S. (2014) Recognition and resemblance: facture, imagination and ideology in depictions of cultural difference in Hague, I. (Ed.) Representing multiculturalism in comics and graphic novels. London: Routledge
Academic Peer Reviewed Journal Papers
- Grennan, S., Matthews, M., Penketh, C. and Wild, C. (2024) “Thinking About Drawing as Cause and Consequence: Practical Approaches in Time” International Journal of Art and Design Education.
- Grennan, S. (2016) “Misrecognising Misrecognition: the Capacity to Influence in the Milieux of Comics and Fine Art”. Image [&] Narrative Issue 17.4.
Academic Peer-reviewed Conference Papers
- Grennan, S. (2025) “Collaging Cassell’s Family Magazine in Sāmoa, Hawaiʻi and Scotland: cutting, drawing and reforming contingencies in established power relationships.” Stevenson in the Pacific Conference, University of Sāmoa, Apia.
- Grennan, S. (2025) “Illegal feelings: legislative communities, formal constraints and kitsch in Madden’s Six Treasures of the Spiral.” Joint International Conference of Bande Dessinées, Graphic Novels and Comics, Centre Belge de la Bande Dessinée Brussels.
- Grennan, S. (2024) Beyond domestication and foreignisationin a new graphic adaptation by Solomon Enos. Remediating Stevenson Conference. Edinburgh University.
- Grennan, S. (2024) Visual journalism, image technology and the business of periodical print in 1870s London. International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference, University of East Anglia
