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Dr Ernesto Priego (@ernestopriego) is Lecturer, Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design at City, University of London. Ernesto says: My background is in Cultural Studies, Digital Humanities and Library and Information Science. I am the editor-in-chief and co-founder of The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship (
comicsgrid.com) an open access journal now published by the Open Library of Humanities (
openlibhums.org). My most recent project is Parables of Care (
blogs.city.ac.uk/parablesofcare/), which explores the potential of comics to enhance the impact of dementia care research. The 16-page publication presents in comics form true stories of creative responses to dementia care, as told by carers, adapted from a group of over 100 case studies available at
carenshare.city.ac.uk. The comic can be downloaded as a PDF file from City Research Online:
openaccess.city.ac.uk/18245/.
What was your earliest ambition? The earliest was possibly to have every Asterix album. Then to read every book in my father’s library. Then to see the world.
Who has inspired you in your career?
Oh, way too many to fully list here! My undergraduate tutors in Mexico. My friends and family.
A few names that have inspired me directly or indirectly include, in no particular order, Jorge Luis Borges, Carlos Monsivais, Umberto Eco, Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Donna Haraway, Bill Moggridge, Lawrence Lessig, Aaron Swartz, Peter Suber, Bethany Nowviskie, Melissa Terras, Simon Tanner, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Martin Eve and many others. My main inspiration is my partner,
Lucy.
Career advice – what’s your top tip? Take care of yourself.
Best professional achievement? Looking at the archive of The Comics Grid and realising how far we have come since we first had that initial meet-up at the bar of the Institute of Education in London in 2010. Opening access to scholarship is possible.
Worst professional moment? Experiencing directly how extensive
December-January 2017/18
toxicity is in academia, and that bullying gets rewarded, not penalised.
What drives you on?
Making change happen. Enabling wider access to education and research.
A book you’ve enjoyed recently? I really enjoyed The Digital Humanist: a critical inquiry, by Domenico Fiormonte and Teresa Numerico (Punctum Books, 2015) and Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America, by Edward King and Joanna Page (UCL Press, 2017). Both books are open access, by the way.
In my ‘non-academic’ reading, I’ve been loving Shirley Jackson’s short stories, especially the Dark Tales col- lection published by Penguin (there’s a new paperback edition that just came out).
Have you got any hidden talents? Hmmm… I write poetry, and I enjoy DJing too. I’m not very talented at either, but I try…
Do you cook, if so, what’s your signature dish?
I do cook… not sure I have a signature dish but my sopa de frijol (Mexican black bean soup, in veggie and non-veggie versions) tends to be popular!
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Parables of Care uses comics to enhance the impact of demen- tia care practice and research. Edited and adapted by Dr Simon Grennan, Dr Ernesto Priego and Dr Peter Wilkins, it was drawn by Dr Simon Grennan with Christopher Sperandio.
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