Where image and text meet identity: Gifted students’ poetry comics and the crafting of “nerd identities”
Michael L Kersulov; Adam Henze · DOAJ Open Access Articles
This article reports on a study of how a class of fifteen- and sixteen-year-old gifted high school students “mixed” the media of poetry and comics to unveil and interrogate (what they called) their “nerd identities.” Both co-authors constructed and co-taught a class within a literature-based comics course that led students through various writing processes t…