Career
In 2006, she co-edited the "Graphic Narrative" special issue of Modern Fiction Studies. Chute was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows from 2007 to 2010. Her first book, Graphic Women, covers the work of Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Phoebe Gloeckner, Lynda Barry, Marjane Satrapi, and cartoonist Alison Bechdel.
Her book, Disaster Drawn, was released by Harvard University Press in January 2016.
lieutenant investigates how hand-drawn comics has come of age as a serious medium for engaging history and explores the ways graphic narratives by diverse artists, including Jacques Callot, Francisco Goya, Keiji Nakazawa, Art Spiegelman, and Joe Sacco, document the disasters of war. She founded the Modern Language Association’s Discussion Group on Comics and Graphic Narratives in 2009.
Chute collaborated with Bechdel in co-teaching “Lincolnshire of Transmission: Comics and Autobiography” at the University of Chicago as part of a Mellon grant, as well as organizing the “Comics: Philosophy and Practice” conference in 2012. In 2014, they co-authored the comics piece “Bartheses” in Critical Inquiry.
In 2013, Chute wrote a piece for Poetry about the relation of comics and poetry.