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Mixed-Race Superheroes with Sika Dagbovie-Mullins, Ph.D. and Eric Berlatsky, Ph.D.
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Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Sika Dagbovie-Mullins and Eric Berlatsky as they discuss their co-edited collection, Mixed-Race Superheroes, the intersectionality between Superheroes, racial identity, and racial politics in American popular culture.
Sika Dagbovie-Mullins is an associate professor and director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English at Florida Atlantic University where she specializes in contemporary African American literature and Critical Mixed-Race Studies. 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 (Rutgers University Press, 2021). Her publications 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.
Eric Berlatsky, PhD, is Associate Dean of Graduate Studies in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Director of the Comparative Studies Ph. D. Program and Professor of English. He is also, through June 2021, currently the Acting Chair of the Department of English. Previous to his current position, he was Chair of the Department of English for 6.5 years. He is the author of The Real, The True, and The Told: Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation (Ohio State UP. 2011) and the editor of Alan Moore: Conversations (UP of Mississippi, 2012). He has published articles on the fiction or comics of Charles Dickens, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Virginia Woolf, Milan Kundera, Paul Auster, Graham Swift, Art Spiegelman, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Hanif Kureishi, and Posy Simmonds. He has co-published work on race and the superheroes Ms. Marvel/Kamala Khan, Black Lightning, Moon Girl, and Spider-Man with Sika Dagbovie-Mullins. Their co-edited collection, Mixed-Race Superheroes, has just been released from Rutgers UP, and includes his essay on The Flash comics and television show.
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