Conversation with Michael Dando on “Maus”

Matthew Teutsch
4 min readMay 2, 2022

Every semester, especially when I teach asynchronous courses, I try to set up conversations with scholars and authors so that students don’t just hear and see me on the screen as they listen to the lecture. As I thought about Art Spiegelman’s Maus, I reached out to Michael Dando. I’ve spoken with Dando before about comics for his classes, specifically Luke Cage, and he has introduced me to countless works, recently…

Matthew Teutsch

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