For Nick Sousanis, editing his dissertation will be much messier than pressing the delete key and retyping passages.
That’s because Mr. Sousanis, with the blessing of his advisers, is writing and drawing his dissertation about comics in comic-book form. He believes his dissertation, in interdisciplinary studies at Columbia University’s Teachers College, is the first of its kind.
Mr. Sousanis grew up reading comics—he says his first word was “Batman"—and he drew them in high school. But his dissertation doesn’t involve the usual superheroes who fight villains bent on world domination. Ever since Superman’s first appearance in 1938, Mr. Sousanis says, people have associated comics with a limited range of genres. But they’re increasingly being created and used in the classroom to help students retain information, so last fall he taught a course about teaching and learning with comics.
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