Afar

Spill Zone

<h4>Jens Lloyd is a PhD candidate in the English department at UC Irvine. His research focuses on the geographies and ecologies of rhetoric, writing, and literacy.</h4>

Jens Lloyd

Confronting Uncertain Worlds: Comics with Young Female Protagonists

<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">— Dr. Seuss</p>

Young Adult &amp; Children’s Literature

"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954

Comics

"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith

Gender &amp; Sexuality

A Presidential Look? Vetting “Citizen Jack” and “Prez”

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

The Lotus Caves

The Guardians

Fearful Associations in John Christopher’s Middle-Grade Science Fiction

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — Frank Herbert

Jens Lloyd is a PhD candidate in the English department at UC Irvine. His research focuses on the geographies and ecologies of rhetoric, writing, and literacy.