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Maggie Flinn’s research focuses on film, graphic narrative, and politics as intersecting cultural discourses. Her edited volume, Drawing (in) the Feminine: Bande Dessinée and Women (OSU Press, 2024) won the 2025 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work. 

Her first book, The Social Architecture of French Cinema 1929-39, (Liverpool University Press, 2014), examines the construction, representation and experience of cinematographic spaces and places in documentary and realist fiction film.  Along with Dr. Martín Viega of University College Cork (Ireland), she is a co-organizer of the EcoModLang: Greening Modern Languages project that is lead by Dr. Armelle Blin-Rolland of Bangor University (Wales). In addition to organizing a conference and resources website, the group has published a special issue of the Journal of Romance Studies. Among her editorial service, she is on the boards of the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, and of Revue Comicalités, where an special issue on Eco-politics, co-edited with Armelle Blin-Rolland and Johanna Sellman (OSU), is forthcoming.

Professor Flinn's published essays include articles on René Clair, Chris Marker, new media art, the documentaire romancé, the film theories of Élie Faure and Jacques Rancière, the Louvre and bande dessinée, disability and gender in the bandes dessinées of Farid Boudjellal, and women in North African cinema, for journals such as SubStance, Studies in French Cinema, Esprit Créateur, and Yale French Studies. Other publications include book chapters on 1930s "banlieutopia," photography in documentary bande dessinée, Olivier Assayas’s published screenplays, the comics of Catherine Meurisse, and shoes in films of Max Linder from the 1910s, and journal articles on bande dessinée as pastoral ecocriticism and memories of May 1968. More recent work includes articles of ethics of care in contemporary documentary and environmental scale in nature documentary.

Undergraduate seminars and graduate courses taught at Ohio State for the Department of French and Italian and the Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Studies include "Cinemas of Canada," "Prosem: Film History and Historiography," "Adaptation and Intertextuality," "The Environment in French & Francophone Visual Popular Culture," “The Architecture of the Image in Italy and France, 1930s-1960s,” “Afriques-sur-Seine: Franco-African Cinematic Encounters,” “Documentary Cinema,” “French Graphisms: Bande dessinée and Animated Cinema,”  "Qu'est-ce que le genre?: à l'écrit et à l'écran"

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