Primary texts:
- Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud (Harper 1993)
- The Complete Maus (I+II), Art Spiegelman (combined edition, Penguin 2003)
- Palestine, Joe Sacco (Jonathan Cape 2003)
- Waltz with Bashir, Ari Folman and David Polonsky
- The Complete Persepolis (I+II), Marjane Satrapi (combined edition, Pantheon 2007)
- Fun Home, Alison Bechdel (Mariner Books 2007)
Secondary literature:
- “Comics as Literature? Reading Graphic Narrative,” Hilary Chute (journal article)
- “Irony and Self-Reflexivity in Autobiographical Comics,” Charles Hatfield (book chapter)
- “Chapter 3” from Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag (book chapter)
- “Autographics: The Seeing ‘I’ of the Comics,” Gillian Whitlock (journal article)
- "The Entangled Self: Genre Bondage in the Age of Memoir," Nancy Miller (journal article)
- “Animating an Archive: Repetition and Regeneration in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home,” Hilary Chute (book chapter)