Contributors
Buy Issue for $25 at JHUP- 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, 2019) and co-editor with Martha Kulhman of Comics of the New Europe: Reflections and Intersections (Leuven University Press, 2020).
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 2011) and the editor of Alan Moore: Conversations (University of Mississippi, 2012). 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, 2016). 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 Universityand 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 of the NYU Medical School. She is co-editor of American Imago and American Editor of the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. She specializes in seventeenth-century British literature, psychoanalysis, and comics.
Tammy Clewell, Professor of English at Kent State University, is the author of Mourning, Modernism, Postmodernism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) and the editor of Modernism and Nostalgia: Bodies, Locations, Aesthetics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Her work has appeared in Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, PMLA, Modern Fiction Studies, and Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.
Sika Dagbovie-Mullins is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Florida Atlantic University. She is author of Crossing B(l)ack: Mixed Race Identity in Modern American Fiction and Culture (University of Tennessee Press 2013) and co-editor of Mixed Race Superheroes with Eric Berlatsky (Rutgers University Press, forthcoming). Her articles have appeared in journals such as African American Review, The Journal of Popular Culture, and Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International. Her recent co-written chapters appear in Ms. Marvel's America (University Press Mississippi, 2020) and Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics (Ohio State Press, 2020).
Valentino L. Zullo holds a PhD in English from Kent State University. He is the Ohio Center for the Book Scholar-in-Residence at Cleveland Public Library where he co-leads the Get Graphic program and American editor of the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. He is also licensed social worker practicing as a maternal depression therapist at OhioGuidestone and a candidate for psychoanalytic training at the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center.
