Student Presenter: Jonathan Santos-Febus
Faculty Mentor: Lissi Athanasiou-Krikelis
School/College: Arts and Sciences, Manhattan

In my SOURCE presentation, I will present a multimodal assignment that I created in one of literature classes. I will analyze Art Spiegelman's famous graphic novel, Maus. Maus depicts Spiegelman interviewing his father about his experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. The work employs postmodern techniques and represents Jews as mice and other Germans and the Polish as cats and pigs. First, I will discuss the main character of Spiegelman's story, the author's father, Vladek, who is a survivor of the Holocaust. I will also share a video of the author speaking about how he felt when his book was banned and why it is important to have conversations about the Holocaust. I will also closely analyze some panels from the novels.