PUBLICATIONS

Research and writing focusing on the study of popular visual culture, specifically comics, with specialities in the subjects of mental health, queer theory, and library programming.

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ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

Peer Reviewed Articles

“Keeping Horror in Mind: Psychoanalysis and the ‘New Direction’ of EC Comics." In The Journal of Popular Culture 54.4 (August 2021): 868-90.

“What’s Diagnosis Got to Do With It?: Psychiatry, Comics and Batman The Killing Joke.” In Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society 2.2 (Summer 2018): 194-214.

“JH Williams III’s Batwoman and the Depth of the Surface: Visualizing a New Definition of Identity as Embedded in the Skin.” In Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 5.2 (Summer 2014): 137-153.

Book Chapters

“Queer Comics Queering Continuity: The Unstoppable Wasp and the Fight for a Queer Future.” In More Critical Approaches to Comics, eds. Matthew Smith, Randy Duncan and Matthew Brown (New York, NY: Routledge, 2019), 48-60.

Magazine and Online Articles

“On the Origins of Our Stories: Superheroes and Mental Health Practice.” In Asylum Magazine 22.4 (Winter 2015): 22-24.

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EDITED BOOKS

Vera J. Camden and Valentino L. Zullo, eds., Wonder Woman: 80 Years Later (New York: Routledge, 2021).

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JOURNAL ISSUES EDITED

“The Interview Issue.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 12.4 (August 2021). Read Introduction.

"Comics on the Couch." American Imago 77.3 (Fall 2020), assistant editor to Vera J. Camden. Read Introduction.

“Wonder Woman and Female Superheroes.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 9.6 with Vera J. Camden (December 2018). Read Introduction.

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INTERVIEWS WITH CREATORS

“History is not over. We are made of it”: An Interview with Nora Krug, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics.

“I try to stay true to my memories, even if that means making a mistake”: An Interview with Riad Sattouf, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 12.4 (August 2021):333-42. Interview co-conducted with Vera J. Camden.

“I Made the Scene”:An Interview with Carol Tyler. Co-interview with Vera J. Camden.

“I’m trying to make a really pleasant garden path for you, a ‘Trojan horse’ for history!”:An Interview with Thi Bui. Co-interview with Vera J. Camden.

“‘My Claim to Fame is Footnotes’: An Interview with Derf Backderf.” In Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. Co- interview with Vera J. Camden.

“Truth, Justice, and the Amazonian Way: An Interview with Greg Rucka.” In Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 9.6 (December 2018), 621-33, Co-interview with Vera J. Camden

“Fighting for Queerness, Justice, and the Persian Way: An Interview with Sina Grace.” In Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 9.5 (2018): 490-500.

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BOOK REVIEWS

Make Ours Marvel: Media Convergence and a Comics Universe. Ed. Matt Yockey. In Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics.

Arresting Development: Comics at the Boundaries of Literature. By Christopher Pizzino. In Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 10.2 (2019): 288-290.

The Superhero Costume: Identity and Disguise in Fact and Fiction. By Barbara Brownie and Danny Graydon. In Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 8.3 (2017): 297-299.

The French Comics Theory Reader. Eds. Ann Miller and Bart Beaty. In Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 8.2 (2017): 211-13.

The Ages of the X-men: Essays on the Children of the Atom in Changing Times. Ed. Joseph J. Darowski. In Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 6.3 (2015): 306-8.

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