Here’s a sample of some of my academic and public-facing work from the last few years. These include essays, reviews, podcasts, videos, as well as lectures. Explore what’s here and feel free to reach out with questions or inquiries!
See me in action
Since 2017, I’ve appeared or contributed to a variety of multimedia works. You can see my CV for a full list but here are a few I think you might enjoy. Some of these are works I made or edited while others are just me appearing on other folks’ platforms.
Written work
In 2018, I started writing for the Eisner-Award winning WWAC. Since then I’ve written for Ms-En-Scene (a former sister site of WWAC), SheIfdust, contribute regularly to the newspage for the Alexandria Archive Institute where I’m a postdoc, and have written a few public access academic articles. Here are links to some of my favorite pieces.
Tokyo Tarareba Girls: A Love Letter To My What-If Women and Third Places. WWAC, https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2020/08/tokyo-tarareba-girls/ 7 August 2020
Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Feminist Fight Choreography. With Alenka Figa, WWAC, https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2020/03/birds-of-prey-and-fantabulous-feminist-fight-choreography/ 19 March 2020
Pretty Deadly, Pretty Cautious. WWAC, https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/?p=122417&preview=true&preview_id=122417 03 March 2020
Tomb Raider: Inferno, An Archaeologist’s Take. WWAC, https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2018/12/tomb-raider-inferno-an-archaeologists-take/ 7 December 2018
Prism Stalker: A Primer on a Sordid Past. WWAC, https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2018/11/prism-stalker-a-primer-on-a-sordid-past/ 23 November 2018
Seattle, Superheroes, and Social Justice: WHAM! BAM! POW! at the Wing Luke Museum. WWAC, https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2018/08/seattle-superheroes-and-social-justice-wham-bam-pow-at-the-wing-luke-museum/ 2 August 2018
Seattle, Superheroes, and Social Justice – Marvel: Universe of Superheroes at MoPOP. WWAC, https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2018/06/marvel-universe-of-superheroes-at-mopop/ 29 June 2018
My First Comic: It All Began With Manga. WWAC, https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2018/05/my-first-comic-paulina/ 17 May 2018
The Pre-Human Avengers: Archaeology and Marvel’s Avengers of 1,000,000 BC. WWAC, https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2018/04/the-pre-human-avengers-archaeology-and-marvels-avengers-of-1000000-bc/ 5 April 2018
Tome Raider: An Archaeologist’s Take on Lara Croft. WWAC, https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2018/02/tome-raider-an-archaeologists-take-on-lara-croft/ 26 February 2018
NYAFF: Neomanila, the Neo-Noir You’ve Been Waiting For. Ms En Scene, http://msenscene.com/2018/07/08/nyaff-neomanila-the-neo-noir-youve-been-waiting-for/ 8 July 2018
Crafting Lara Croft: Comics, Consoles, and Cinema. with Stephanie Halmhofer. Ms En Scene, http://msenscene.com/2018/07/04/crafting-lara-croft/4 July 2018
Chedeng and Apple and a Q & A: A Meta-Analysis of Colonialism, Language, and Homecomings. Ms En Scene, http://msenscene.com/2018/06/22/chedeng-and-apple-and-a-qa-a-meta-analysis-of-colonialism-language-and-homecomings/ 22 June 2018
Teen Tix
My earliest forays, that were not livejournal posts, into reviewing came in the form of being a Teen Tix Press Corps reviewer. One of the first folks to participate in this continuing program, I wrote for them from 2007-2010 about theater in the Seattle area. I also participated in the first Young Critics Workshop. Teen Tix is an amazing organization that still exists in Seattle so I highlighly encourage folks to check out their ongoing work as well. Here are links to those:
2010
Keeping Up With The Shakespearians
2009
2008
2007
Unique and romantic, IBT’s Dracula equals Halloween fun
Smart, witty and fast, The Women just ropes you in
A note on older work
This it not my first personal website. I have three defunct blogs over at blogspot. The first was on my undergraduate remote sensing project, the second was on my undergraduate senior paper, and the last was started to practice writing with regularity that then morphed into my first series of essays exploring popular culture. I am linking to them here but do not necessarily support all the opinions I have previously written and some of those may be removed in the future.
Paulina F. Przystupa 