Nick Sousanis

In addition to publishing, Sousanis has spoken at symposiums and conferences around the world. The noteworthiness of Sousanis' contribution to the field of academics has been discussed in Inside Higher Ed and The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Nick Sousanis studied at Teachers College, Wayne State University and Western Michigan University. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is drawing, caricature and art criticism. The Invisible Art is recorded as an influence. Employment is recorded with University of Michigan and San Francisco State University. Works named in the authority record are Unflattening. Distinctions recorded are Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize.

• Name — Nick Sousanis • Birth Name — Walter Nickell Sousanis • Birthplace — Michigan • Occupation — Cartoonist, scholar, teacher, art critic • Education — B.A., Western Michigan University Ed.D., Teachers College, Columbia University • Known for — TheDetroiter.com Unflattening • Website — http: spinweaveandcut.com/

A former professional tennis player and instructor, Sousanis majored in mathematics at Western Michigan University. Sousanis and his brother John Sousanis co-founded thedetroiter.com in October 2002, where he served as editor in chief. He also contributed arts coverage for the Detroit Metro Times. He became the biographer of legendary Detroit artist Charles McGee. While he was living in Detroit, Sousanis' own artwork appeared in a number of shows in the Detroit area, including a billboard for the Ferndale, Michigan Public Art Project. and he served as a board member and, for a period, the chairman of the non-profit arts organization Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit (CAID). In recognition of his accomplishments in the arts community of Southeastern Michigan, Sousanis was selected as one of Crain's Detroit Business's "40 under 40" for 2006. In 2007, Sousanis was appointed the founding Director of Exhibitions for Work @ Detroit, an exhibition space in Detroit operated by the University of Michigan School of Art & Design. In early 2008, Sousanis moved from Detroit to New York City to pursue a Doctorate of Education in Interdisciplinary Studies at Columbia University's Teachers College. At that point TheDetroiter.com was sold to the YMCA. In 2011, Sousanis organized the 2011 Game Show NYC. Talks were given by Maxine Greene, Tony Wagner, Fred Goodman, and Donald Brinkman at the concurrent conference for Creativity, Play, and Imagination Across Disciplines. Sousanis defended his dissertation, titled "Unflattening: A Visual-Verbal Inquiry into Learning in Many Dimensions," at Teachers College, Columbia University in May 2014. His dissertation was published by Harvard University Press in April 2015 as Unflattening; the New York Times called it: Unflattening won the 2015 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize, taking top honor as book of the year. In 2015, Sousanis accepted a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Calgary, where he taught about comics. In Fall 2016, joined the School of Humanities and Liberal Studies at San Francisco State University as an assistant professor. In 2018, Sousanis won the Eisner Award for Best Short Story for "A Life in Comics: The Graphic Adventures of Karen Green".

Nick Sousanis is recorded as having studied at Teachers College, Wayne State University and Western Michigan University.