CLASS Reads and the Thought Leadership Series Present: 

Nick Sousanis

Nick Sousanis is an Eisner-winning comics author and an associate professor at San Francisco State University, where he started and runs an interdisciplinary Comics Studies program. He is the author of Unflattening, originally his doctoral dissertation, which he wrote and drew entirely in comics form. Published by Harvard University Press in 2015, Unflattening received the 2016 American Publishers Association Humanities award for Scholarly Excellence and the 2016 Lynd Ward prize for Best Graphic Novel. Sousanis’s comics have appeared in Nature, The Boston Globe, Columbia Magazine, MIT Technology Review, and more. 

Please join us for the second speaker in our 2025-2026 Thought Leadership Series!

Thursday, October 23, 2025

Two Separate Events:

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM: Interactive Comics Workshop - Open to All! (UHall 2-048)

Discover Thinking Through Comics with Nick Sousanis

Join us for a lively, hands-on workshop that explores comics as a powerful way of thinking, learning, and expressing ideas.

Through a series of fun, fast-paced, and collaborative drawing activities, you’ll discover how working in comics can spark new insights, strengthen your creative and critical practice, and help you see your work in entirely new ways.

No drawing experience needed — just curiosity and a willingness to experiment!

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM: Thought Leadership Talk and Reception (UHall 2-150)

Please join us for Nick's talk, and a chance for open Q&A and networking!