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WORKS IN

PROGRESS

FORTHCOMING

  • The United Nations Decade for (Wonder) Women: Wonder Woman, the U.N., and women’s liberation

  • The shield or the skull: The civil-military gap, the militarized superhero, and veteran stereotypes in American myth and memory.

AT PUBLISHER

  • Bombs & bombshells, aluminium & Lace: Milton Caniff at the intersection of illustration & insignia in World War II

  • Mother Goddesses and the incarnation, passion, and resurrection of Spider-Man: The transformative nature of Shriek, Shathra, and Ero

  • Profaning the sacred: Religious sites as political metaphors in 007

  • Letters of life, Lace, and love: Milton Caniff’s readers in World War II

UNDER CONTRACT

  • So you think you know… Scarecrow? (University Press of Mississippi)

  • Scarecrow’s straw man politics: Living in the “Fear State” of the post-truth era

IN DEVELOPMENT WITH EDITORS

  • Phantoms, fangs, & fatigues: War-horror comics and U.S. public memory

  • Revolutionary revenants: Raising the spirits of the marginalized in New York's haunted history

  • The divine Comedian: The Kennedys, conflict, and confession

  • Spider-Man's adventures underground with the White Rabbit

  • Venom-ous heroes: The paradox of the antihero protagonist

  • Playing the blues in other colors: Graphic narrative as Bob Dylan cover tunes

  • Spin masters: Spider-Man, J. Jonah Jameson, the press and the public good

  • Black is the new orange: Anna Diop, Starfire, and adapting comics in living color

  • “I never saw such rotten crap in my life!”: TranSLAYtions of Creepshow

  • “I’m the only one of us who can’t fly”: The super moms, supers’ moms, and supermoms of Invincible.

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