This week, Michigan State University will host the fifth annual conference for the Comic Studies Society, one of the premier academic communities dedicated to comic studies. What makes MSU the perfect place for this conference, besides the fact that it is home to the largest publicly accessible comic book collection in the world, is the research being done here that focuses on comics and popular culture.

Julian Chambliss, Professor of English at Michigan State University, who helped bring the Comic Studies Society Conference to campus, is one MSU faculty member whose research centers on comics and popular culture. His research also offers an interesting example of the type of work being done with MSU’s Comic Art Collection, which contains more than 350,000 items that are housed in the MSU Libraries’ Special Collections.

Read more on the College of Arts and Letters website.