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Dr. Dale Jacobs is a Professor in the Department of English and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Alberta and a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska. His research focuses on comics studies, creative nonfiction, composition and rhetoric, multimodal rhetorics, and baseball fiction/nonfiction. He has authored/co-authored books such as Graphic Encounters and 100 Miles of Baseball, edited volumes including Jeff Lemire: Conversations, and contributed to numerous academic journals. His work explores intersections of disability rhetorics, grief representation, and public history through graphic narratives. Jacobs co-edits The Windsor Review, a literary journal, and has collaborated on projects linking comics with educational theory. His recent scholarship emphasizes multimodal literacy, trauma narratives, and interdisciplinary approaches to graphic storytelling.
His teaching and research areas include comics pedagogy, creative nonfiction writing, and rhetorical theory. Key themes in his work involve disability representation in comics, the role of hope in education, and the cultural significance of Canadian graphic narratives. Jacobs has edited special journal issues on comics and composition, published anthologies of critical essays, and contributed to both scholarly and public-facing literary projects.
His most recent book, The 1976 Project: On Comics and Grief, under contract with Wilfrid Laurier University Press, further explores grief narratives through graphic forms. Jacobs actively participates in academic discourse through conferences, editorial roles, and collaborative writing initiatives, maintaining a strong presence in both literary and scholarly communities.
