José Alaniz

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José Alaniz, professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Department of Cinema and Media Studies (adjunct) at the University of Washington, Seattle, has published three monographs, Komiks: Comic Art in Russia (University Press of Mississippi, 2010); Death, Disability and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond (UPM, 2014); and Resurrection: Comics in Post-Soviet Russia (OSU Press, 2022). He has also co-edited two essay collections, Comics of the New Europe: Reflections and Intersections (with Martha Kuhlman, Leuven University Press, 2020) and Uncanny Bodies: Disability and Superhero Comics (with Scott T. Smith, Penn State University Press, 2019). He formerly chaired the Executive Committee of the International Comic Arts Forum (ICAF) and was a founding board member of the Comics Studies Society. He has published two comics/prose collections: The Phantom Zone & Other Stories (Amatl Comix, 2020) and The Compleat Moscow Calling (Amatl, 2023). His third, Puro Pinche True Fictions, is forthcoming from FlowerSong Press. His current scholarly book projects include Comics of the Anthropocene: Graphic Narrative at the End of Nature.