Stephanie Cox

Education & Professional History

Bowling Green State University, MA; University of Louisiana at Lafayette, PhD

Highlights & Recent Activity

Since 2007, I have collaborated with folks all over the community to bring interesting people to learn from. It is usually related to how we can talk about identity through art.

• My Kind of Comics Club, a club for aspiring and emerging comics creators, 1st Thursday meet- up at Mercado Local in Northfield, Minnesota
• Art Exhibits:     2Fik      David Garneau
• Music Concert: Lost Bayou Ramblers, Cajun band
• Collaboration     (2Fik)      (list of 2018 events)
• Cajun Studies Symposium:  Jean Arceneaux/Barry J. Ancelet (poet)    Kevin Fontenot (historian)  David Cheramie (poet)   Erik Charpentier (documentary filmmaker)
• Alana Conner, cultural psychologist

Comic book biographies:

• Finita La Gringa, short story about a Cuban American in search of her past
• Lulu White, Queen of Diamonds: Chronicles of a Black Madam in New Orleans (Lulu White) Stephanie and collaborator Nathalie Rech gave a public talk to update the fans in 2023  More recently, in December 2024, Stephanie has been awarded a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board to finish this graphic novel and conduct several exciting local events, including an exhibit at the Northfield Arts Guild in June of 2025, workshops on making comics and a regular meet-up for local folks who make comics.
• “A Zulu in New York,” a comic book with Chérif Kéita about Nokutela Mdima Dube’s life in New York when she and her husband John L. Dube sought training and raised funds to start a new school in South African’s Zulu country. Stephanie received a SEMAC (Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council) grant to self-publish 100 booklets to be handed out at a public event in the Northfield Library where she and Cherif will present the life of Nokutela and their process on January 16, 2025 at 5PM.
  (for more information : www.stephmcox.com)

My Kind of Comics Club, a club for aspiring and emerging comics creators, 1st Thursday meet- up at Mercado Local in Northfield, Minnesota

Office: LDC 305

Fall 2025 FRENCH 101-103 – Introduction to French
CCST 100 – A&I seminar “Growing Up Cross-Culturally”

Winter 2026 – Off campus

“The invisible twin: visibility and identity in À l’autre bout de moi by Marie-Thérèse Humbert,” in Reading Contemporary African Literature. Critical Perspectives. Eds. Reuben Makayiko Chirambo and J.K.S Makokha, Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi Press, 2013: 159-179.

“Les Enfants de Pitsémine : le texte comme patrie chez Ying Chen et Ook Chung,” co-authored with Jung-Hwa Hong, Univ. of Toronto-Mississauga, Québec Studies : New Voices on Québec (special edition) Fall 2012/Winter 2013, 37-53. 

“Transformations postexiliques dans Querelle d’un squelette avec son double de Ying Chen et Personne de Linda Lê” dans Études Francophones : Québec, Vol 25, Fall/Spring 2010: 124-146. (Special edition)

“La jumelle ‘ambiguë’ : la crispation identitaire” on Marie-Thérèse Humbert’s À l’autre bout de moi, in Études Francophones 17:2 (Fall 2002).

Dissertation on Ying Chen, Canadian fiction writer (female)

Drawing and reading graphic novels/comic books/zines and when I need a break, I keep my hands busy sewing, cooking, baking and pulling weeds.