Phoebe Gloeckner

Associate Professor, School of Art & Design

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Office: 2070 AA
Phone: (734) 936-2265
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Curriculum Vitae

M.A. (Biomedical Communications), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 1988 Undergraduate work at San Francisco State University, Charles University in Prague, and L’Université D’Aix-Marseille, 1980-1985

Biography

Phoebe Gloeckner is a graphic novelist. Her book, The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2002), was praised as "one of the most brutally honest, shocking, tender, beautiful portrayals of growing up female in America." Cartoonist R. Crumb called her story, Minnie’s Third Love (published in A Child’s Life and Other Stories) one of the “comicbook masterpieces of all time.”

Her books have been published in multiple languages and her artwork has been exhibited in galleries and museums across the United States and Europe.

In 2008, Gloeckner was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship to continue work on an on-going project centering on the life of the family of a murdered teenager living in Ciudad Juárez, several hundred feet from the US-Mexico border. Throughout and preceeding the escalation and gradual recession of the current period of intense violence in the city (3,200+ homicides in 2010), Gloeckner has been observing the evolution of the family, the case of their daughter’s murder, and the neighborhood they live in. The end product of this process will be several novels.

Gloeckner has long experimented with the form of the novel- Diary is a hybrid of prose and graphic novel, and her current projects will incorporate various media (audio, motion, and static) with text. The challenge is to create an electronic “multi-touch” book offering a “seamless” reading experience, a work that feels to be of one piece (the whole, greater than the sum of its parts) rather than an “enhanced” novel with multi-media annotations and side matter. She is working concurrently on printed versions of these books.

Visit PLAY to see a video interview with Phoebe Gloeckner from The Why Series: Why We Make Creative Work.

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In the News

• Comedian Rob Delaney Inspired by Phoebe Gloeckner’s Work
• Phoebe Gloeckner Interviewed in The Comics Journal
• Phoebe Gloeckner and Omar Sosa-Tzec on “Teaching Visual Communication Today”
• Phoebe Gloeckner: The Best American Comics 2018
• Phoebe Gloeckner Interviewed
• Phoebe Gloeckner: ‘Diary of a Teenage Girl’ Named Greatest Graphic Novel of All Time
• Phoebe Gloeckner at Entreviñetas Festival in Bogotá, Columbia
• Phoebe Gloeckner Speaks at Anthropology & History Symposium
• Phoebe Gloeckner: “The Diary of a Teenage Girl” Awarded
• Phoebe Gloeckner: Upcoming Events
• Phoebe Gloeckner on Fresh Air with Terry Gross
• Diary of a Teenage Girl: NYT Critics’ Pick
• Sweetland Word Squared: Writer to Writer with Phoebe Gloeckner, Mar. 24 at Literati
• Phoebe Gloeckner: Institute for the Humanities Faculty Fellow
• Phoebe Gloeckner to Speak at MOCAD Comic Jam 3/14
• Phoebe Gloeckner’s Diary of a Teenage Girl: from graphic novel to feature film
• Diary of a Teenage Girl to Premiere at Sundance Film Festival
• Phoebe Gloeckner on WCBN
• Phoebe Gloeckner: Pop-Up Show and Lecture
• Gloeckner to Speak at ICAF
• GOOD KIDS: The Play
• Phoebe Gloeckner: Comics and Censorship
• Phoebe Gloeckner: Diary of a Teenage Girl Makes Rolling Stone Top 50 List
• Phoebe Gloeckner Interview
• Phoebe Gloeckner: Interviews with Contemporary Cartoonists
• Professor Profile: Phoebe Gloeckner
• Holly Hughes and Phoebe Gloeckner at Lit Quake SF
• Phoebe Gloeckner: Truth in Interactive Storytelling
• Drake University Writers and Critics Series: Phoebe Gloeckner
• Phoebe Gloeckner Featured in Book, Article