Blood in the Water is a graphic story by American Studies Ph.D. student and cartoonist Coyote Shook. It explores the shark-related research of American Studies professor Janet Davis, one of Shook’s advisors, in the context of Shook’s own work as well as the broader field of “blue humanities.”
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