Contributors

José Alaniz is Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Washington-Seattle. He is author of Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond and Komiks: Comic Art in Russia, both published by University Press of Mississippi. He is co-editor, with Scott T. Smith, of Uncanny Bodies: Superhero Comics and Disability (Penn State University Press, ) and co-editor with Martha Kulhman of Comics of the New Europe: Reflections and Intersections (Leuven University Press, ).

Eric Berlatsky is Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, Director of the Comparative Studies Ph. D. Program and Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University. He is the author of The Real, The True, and The Told: Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation (Ohio State University Press ) and the editor of Alan Moore: Conversations (University of Mississippi, ). He has co-authored work on race and the superheroes Ms. Marvel/Kamala Khan, Black Lightning and Moon Girl with Sika Dagbovie-Mullins. Their co-edited collection, Mixed-Race Superheroes, is forthcoming from Rutgers University Press.

Tammy Birk is an Associate Professor of English at Otterbein University and has been director of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program since 2009. She co-edited, with Irene Langran, Globalization and Global Citizenship: Interdisciplinary Approaches (Routledge, ). Her work has appeared in Diversity and Democracy and she has presented on topics including graphic medicine and queer comics.

Vera J. Camden is Professor of English at Kent State University- and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University. She is Training and Supervising Analyst at the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center and Geographic Rule Supervising Analyst for the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education