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Papers by Victoria Grube

Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies

The article is a dialogue between comic artists, writers, readers, and researchers. Recognizing t... more The article is a dialogue between comic artists, writers, readers, and researchers. Recognizing the characterization of traumatic memory as fragmented, embodied, and encompassing multiple temporalities, it considers the implications of trauma and comics as more-than-representational. It challenges a representational logic of signification that informs presuppositions regarding trauma’s narrativization and readability that privilege coherency and stability. At the intersection of trauma and comics, the article suggests a shift from comics as narrative/discursive objects to comics as artworks, as sensation and affect. Comics as material-discursive processes engage bodies (the tactile, sensory, and material) and drawing from and through embodied memory and multiple temporalities. The article includes the authors’ address of trauma, affect, memory, and time through writing about their own artistic practices and diffractive reading.

Appalachian State University, 2014

This study uses portraiture methodology to understand how ideas travel among preschool children i... more This study uses portraiture methodology to understand how ideas travel among preschool children in an art studio. The researcher, also the art teacher, is watchful of the children's feelings, perspectives, and experiences, and analyzes her data through the writing. The researcher sees children co-constructing knowledge, negotiating truth, and redefining themselves while their relationships deepen. Buber and Husserl's reflections concerning our search for an identical other are layered in with anecdotal episodes of the researcher and the children. Relationships, influenced by the cultural and practical world, are in constant flux. External needs and desires impact subjective experiences, and pairs-once engaged in shared consciousness-rebound, searching for a mirror more in focus. In the preschool art studio, intersubjectivity, married somehow to repetition, sets forth the proliferation of ideas.

Appalachian State University, 2016

This qualitative study looks at how an art studio run by children in crisis impacts what we can l... more This qualitative study looks at how an art studio run by children in crisis impacts what we can learn about art and relationships. Room 13, an art studio on school grounds managed by children ages 7-11 years old, began in Scotland in the 1980's and is now worldwide. Room 13 young artists manage the studio, raise funds, and even hire an adult studio artist. In Room 13, the children's art making is expected to be experimental and self driven. West Rise Junior School and Hareclive Primary School in England both each have a Room 13 as well as a large population of children at risk. This research study explores how art can serve such a population. .

This study uses portraiture methodology to understand how ideas travel among preschool children i... more This study uses portraiture methodology to understand how ideas travel among preschool children in an art studio. The researcher, also the art teacher, is watchful of the children's feelings, perspectives, and experiences, and analyzes her data through the writing. The researcher sees children co-constructing knowledge, negotiating truth, and redefining themselves while their relationships deepen. Buber and Husserl's reflections concerning our search for an identical other are layered in with anecdotal episodes of the researcher and the children. Relationships, influenced by the cultural and practical world, are in constant flux. External needs and desires impact subjective experiences, and pairs-once engaged in shared consciousness-rebound, searching for a mirror more in focus. In the preschool art studio, intersubjectivity, married somehow to repetition, sets forth the proliferation of ideas.

Visual Arts Research, 2012

This qualitative study looks at how an art studio run by children in crisis impacts what we can l... more This qualitative study looks at how an art studio run by children in crisis impacts what we can learn about art and relationships. Room 13, an art studio on school grounds managed by children ages 7-11 years old, began in Scotland in the 1980’s and is now worldwide. Room 13 young artists manage the studio, raise funds, and even hire an adult studio artist. In Room 13, the children’s art making is expected to be experimental and self driven. West Rise Junior School and Hareclive Primary School in England both each have a Room 13 as well as a large population of children at risk. This research study explores how art can serve such a population.

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 2010

This is a reflexive ethnography that interweaves a 1960s Midwest childhood with the culture of co... more This is a reflexive ethnography that interweaves a 1960s Midwest childhood with the culture of comic books and a critique of the 1960s and the nuclear family. My comic choices were more eclectic than my brother’s vast collection of Marvel, but both of us found in comics an escape from a strained childhood. The comic books, like all art, held meanings that were deeper than the pamphlet’s face value. What did this art form do for us? Certainly entertained, but even more. Becoming immersed in the lives of the characters, we were not alone. We lived lives balancing eggs on spoons, and we collected little pictured stories that offered clearer insights about family life than what the world was telling us.

The Journal of Aesthetic Education, May 18, 2012

Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies

The article is a dialogue between comic artists, writers, readers, and researchers. Recognizing t... more The article is a dialogue between comic artists, writers, readers, and researchers. Recognizing the characterization of traumatic memory as fragmented, embodied, and encompassing multiple temporalities, it considers the implications of trauma and comics as more-than-representational. It challenges a representational logic of signification that informs presuppositions regarding trauma’s narrativization and readability that privilege coherency and stability. At the intersection of trauma and comics, the article suggests a shift from comics as narrative/discursive objects to comics as artworks, as sensation and affect. Comics as material-discursive processes engage bodies (the tactile, sensory, and material) and drawing from and through embodied memory and multiple temporalities. The article includes the authors’ address of trauma, affect, memory, and time through writing about their own artistic practices and diffractive reading.

Appalachian State University, 2014

This study uses portraiture methodology to understand how ideas travel among preschool children i... more This study uses portraiture methodology to understand how ideas travel among preschool children in an art studio. The researcher, also the art teacher, is watchful of the children's feelings, perspectives, and experiences, and analyzes her data through the writing. The researcher sees children co-constructing knowledge, negotiating truth, and redefining themselves while their relationships deepen. Buber and Husserl's reflections concerning our search for an identical other are layered in with anecdotal episodes of the researcher and the children. Relationships, influenced by the cultural and practical world, are in constant flux. External needs and desires impact subjective experiences, and pairs-once engaged in shared consciousness-rebound, searching for a mirror more in focus. In the preschool art studio, intersubjectivity, married somehow to repetition, sets forth the proliferation of ideas.

Appalachian State University, 2016

This qualitative study looks at how an art studio run by children in crisis impacts what we can l... more This qualitative study looks at how an art studio run by children in crisis impacts what we can learn about art and relationships. Room 13, an art studio on school grounds managed by children ages 7-11 years old, began in Scotland in the 1980's and is now worldwide. Room 13 young artists manage the studio, raise funds, and even hire an adult studio artist. In Room 13, the children's art making is expected to be experimental and self driven. West Rise Junior School and Hareclive Primary School in England both each have a Room 13 as well as a large population of children at risk. This research study explores how art can serve such a population. .

This study uses portraiture methodology to understand how ideas travel among preschool children i... more This study uses portraiture methodology to understand how ideas travel among preschool children in an art studio. The researcher, also the art teacher, is watchful of the children's feelings, perspectives, and experiences, and analyzes her data through the writing. The researcher sees children co-constructing knowledge, negotiating truth, and redefining themselves while their relationships deepen. Buber and Husserl's reflections concerning our search for an identical other are layered in with anecdotal episodes of the researcher and the children. Relationships, influenced by the cultural and practical world, are in constant flux. External needs and desires impact subjective experiences, and pairs-once engaged in shared consciousness-rebound, searching for a mirror more in focus. In the preschool art studio, intersubjectivity, married somehow to repetition, sets forth the proliferation of ideas.

Visual Arts Research, 2012

This qualitative study looks at how an art studio run by children in crisis impacts what we can l... more This qualitative study looks at how an art studio run by children in crisis impacts what we can learn about art and relationships. Room 13, an art studio on school grounds managed by children ages 7-11 years old, began in Scotland in the 1980’s and is now worldwide. Room 13 young artists manage the studio, raise funds, and even hire an adult studio artist. In Room 13, the children’s art making is expected to be experimental and self driven. West Rise Junior School and Hareclive Primary School in England both each have a Room 13 as well as a large population of children at risk. This research study explores how art can serve such a population.

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 2010

This is a reflexive ethnography that interweaves a 1960s Midwest childhood with the culture of co... more This is a reflexive ethnography that interweaves a 1960s Midwest childhood with the culture of comic books and a critique of the 1960s and the nuclear family. My comic choices were more eclectic than my brother’s vast collection of Marvel, but both of us found in comics an escape from a strained childhood. The comic books, like all art, held meanings that were deeper than the pamphlet’s face value. What did this art form do for us? Certainly entertained, but even more. Becoming immersed in the lives of the characters, we were not alone. We lived lives balancing eggs on spoons, and we collected little pictured stories that offered clearer insights about family life than what the world was telling us.

The Journal of Aesthetic Education, May 18, 2012