Captain America and the Nationalist Superhero: Metaphors, Narratives, and Geopolitics

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments I owe special thanks to Paul Adams, Caroline Bressey, Michael Brown, Sean Carter, Simon Dalby, Klaus Dodds, Dan Hassler-Forest, James Kneale, and Alec Murphy for providing feedback on draft chapters. Many of the insights about Canada and Canadian superheroes belong to my friend and collaborator Soren Larsen, who partnered with me to conduct the Canadian portion of this research. He graciously allowed me to use our findings in this book. I am also indebted to Randy Scott and the Special Collections staff at Michigan State University, to Steven Hensen and the Special Collections staff at Duke University, and to the very helpful staff at the Canadian Library and Archives. More generally, I am grateful to the faculties at Georgia Southern University and University College London for their support during this project. I completed the first draft of this book while I was on a visiting fellowship at the London School of Economics, to which I am grateful as well. The research findings herein were tested and refined through innumerable conference presentations and at seminars and colloquia at the University of Georgia, Ohio University, the University of Sussex, the University of­Amsterdam, and Johannes Gutenberg University. I am grateful to all participants for their thoughts and criticisms. Research funding was provided by the British Academy, a Canadian High Commission Faculty Research Grant, and a Georgia Southern University Faculty Research Grant. I owe the greatest debt of gratitude to my supportive friends and family— especially Stephanie Dittmer, who, from the very beginning of this project, was my unceasing advocate. Captain America and the Nationalist Superhero ...