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I am an Associate Professor at the University of California-Davis and an interactive media producer with research interests in education, design, culture, technology, and media. My academic background includes training in engineering, digital media, and education. These experiences positively influenced the media-related projects I have worked on for over 25 years as an educator, producer, consultant, and researcher.
Recent Publications
Degand, D. (2025). “It’s only dormant. It’s not dead.”: The evolution of Cory Thomas’ comic ‘Watch Your Head’. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics.
Degand, D. & Grier, A. (2025). ‘WAIT! Isn’t cartooning supposed to be fun?!’: Little Barbara Brandon’s earliest lessons. Studies in Comics, 15(1-2), 119-145.
Peñaloza, A. C. & Degand, D. (2024). Yo Me Llamo Cumbia: A multimodal autoethnographic analysis on the re-presentation of Cumbia’s AfroIndigenous cantautoras. Multimodality & Society.
Recent Comics
‘WAIT! Isn’t cartooning supposed to be fun?!’: Little Barbara Brandon’s earliest lessons.
An arts-based inquiry-inspired rubric for assessing college students’ comic essays.
Comics, emceeing, and graffiti: A graphic narrative about the relationship between hip-hop culture and comics culture