Andrew Lesk
Andrew Lesk teaches and has taught a wide range of courses in English, Sexual Diversity Studies, Media Studies, Canadian Studies, and Visual Studies, including The Graphic Novel, Indigenous Writing, Queer Writing, Trans Studies, The Canadian Graphic Novel, Queer/Pop/Cult, and Voices in Canadian Writing. He is an editor for the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (Routledge) and The Comics Grid. He is the past-president of Canadian Society for the Study of Comics / Société canadienne pour l'étude de la bande dessinée, and has published widely.
Office Hours
By Appointment.
Recent Publications
"Stop Making Sense: Jim Woodring and the Un/Making of Meaning.” Canadian Society for the Study of Comics Conference, May 2016.
“The 5¢ Cure? Lucy Van Pelt and the Pathologization of Psychiatry.” Canadian Society for the Study of Comics Conference, May 2015.
“Underground, Unseen, Unknown: Negotiating Toronto in Girls Fall Down.” Canadian Literature 216 (Spring 2013): 101-16.
“Redrawing Nationalism: Chester Brown’s Louis Riel: A Comic-strip Biography.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 1.1 (June 2010): 63-81.
“Playing the Parts: Difference and the ‘corps morcelé’ in Lives of Girls and Women.” Studies in Canadian Literature 32.1 (2007): 141-53.
“‘Ambivalence at the site of authority’: Desire and Difference in Funny Boy.” Canadian Literature 190 (Autumn 2006): 31-46.
“‘Nothing in particular’: Queer Theory and the Loss of the Social.” torquere 4/5 (2003): 63-84.
“On Sinclair Ross’s Straight(ened) House.” English Studies in Canada 28.1 (March 2002): 65-90.
