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
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