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Brenna Clarke Gray

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Part muppet and part college faculty member, Brenna Clarke Gray holds a PhD in Canadian Literature while simultaneously holding two cats named Chaucer and Swift. It's a juggling act. Raised in small-town Ontario, Brenna has since been transported by school to the Atlantic provinces and by work to the Vancouver area, where she now lives with her stylish cyclist/webgeek husband and the aforementioned cats. When not posing by day as a forserious academic, she can be found painting her nails and watching Degrassi (through the critical lens of awesomeness). She posts about graphic narratives at Graphixia, and occasionally she remembers to update her own blog, Not That Kind of Doctor. Blog: Not That Kind of Doctor Twitter: @brennacgray

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Last week, when I posted a few little flowcharts about what YA heroines might do in a crisis, people seemed to be quite tickled. Someone suggested, via Twitter I think, that I should do one with Ahab from Moby Dick — why should teen girls take all the heat? So this week, three more flowcharts: Ahab, Hamlet, and John Proctor from The Crucible have all been asked on dates.  What happens next?

Captain Ahab first:

 

Now Hamlet:

 

And finally, good John Proctor:

 

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Brenna Clarke Gray holds a PhD in Canadian Literature and teaches in the Vancouver area.  She posts about graphic narratives at Graphixia, and occasionally she remembers to update her own blog, Not That Kind of Doctor. Follow her on Twitter: @mittenstrings.