Kate Kelp-Stebbins

Kate Kelp-Stebbins is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Oregon, serving as Co-Director of the Comics Studies Program. She is also affiliated with New Media and Culture and Women’s and Gender Studies. Her research focuses on Colonial/Postcolonial Studies, Digital Humanities, Feminist Media, and Indigenous Comics. She directs the traveling museum exhibit The Art of the News: Comics Journalism, which explores graphic journalism's role in reporting global crises.

Her scholarly works include How Comics Travel: Translation, Publication, Radical Literacies (monograph) and the edited volume The Art of the News: Comics Journalism. She has published in journals like PMLA, Studies in Comics, and Feminist Media Histories, emphasizing transnational comics, indigenous narratives, and radical literacies.

Recent research highlights include analyzing Navajo-Hopi land disputes through political cartoons, exploring Haida Manga as a tool for indigenizing media, and examining the materiality of comics in global contexts. Her work bridges graphic art, digital innovation, and critical theory, advocating for comics' academic legitimacy and cultural impact.