Lara Saguisag

Lara Saguisag is Assistant Professor of English (Children’s and Young Adult Literature) at CUNY – College of Staten Island. Her forthcoming book, Incorrigibles and Innocents: Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Newspaper Comics, draws from and builds on histories and theories of childhood, comics, and Progressive Era conceptualizations of citizenship and nationhood. Her current project, tentatively titled “Regimes and Revolutions,” examines the ways Philippine children’s literature, comics, and cartoons were shaped by and responded to the regime of Ferdinand Marcos.