Chute's first book
Graphic Women (2010) covers the work of
Aline Kominsky-Crumb,
Phoebe Gloeckner,
Lynda Barry,
Marjane Satrapi, and
Alison Bechdel. Her second academic book
Disaster Drawn (2016) investigates how hand-drawn comics has come of age as a serious medium for engaging history. It explores graphic narratives that document the disasters of war by such artists as
Jacques Callot,
Francisco Goya,
Keiji Nakazawa,
Art Spiegelman, and
Joe Sacco. Chute's book of interviews with contemporary cartoonists,
Outside the Box, was published in 2014. Chute is the Associate Editor of
Art Spiegelman’s
MetaMaus, which won a 2011
National Jewish Book Award in the category Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, as well as a 2012
Eisner Award in the category of best comics-related book. In 2006, she co-edited the "Graphic Narrative" special issue of
Modern Fiction Studies. She founded the
Modern Language Association’s Discussion Group on Comics and Graphic Narratives in 2009. Chute collaborated with Bechdel in co-teaching the course “Lines of Transmission: Comics and Autobiography” at the University of Chicago as part of a
Mellon Grant, and in organizing the “Comics: Philosophy and Practice” conference in 2012. In 2014, they co-authored the comics piece “Bartheses” in
Critical Inquiry. In March 2018, Chute was named a columnist on comics and graphic novels for
The New York Times Book Review. Chute has written for
Poetry about the relation of comics and poetry, reported for
Artforum from
San Diego Comic-Con, and reviewed comics for
The New York Review of Books. Her book
Why Comics?: From Underground to Everywhere (2017) was named one of the Best Books of 2017 by
Kirkus Reviews and one of the "100 Notable Books of 2018" by
The New York Times. == Publications ==