Eric Berlatsky
Eric Berlatsky is Professor of English, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies in the Dorothy F Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, and Director of the Ph. D. Program in Comparative Studies. He frequently researches and teaches around the fringes of SF/Fantasy, depending upon how one defines these genres. In recent years, he has been primarily a Comics Studies scholar, including work on 鈥渓iterary鈥 comics (not typically associated with SF) and superhero comics (which arise out of the pulp SF tradition). He has recently co-edited a collection of essays on mixed-race superheroes, cleverly titled Mixed-Race Superheroes (Rutgers UP, 2021), with FAU colleague Sika Dagbovie-Mullins. He also edited a collection of interviews with comics auteur Alan Moore, Alan Moore: Conversations (UP of Mississippi, 2012). He also has a variety of publications on comics and superheroes in journals and edited collections. His non-SF research profile includes publications on (post)modernism, modern and contemporary British and Anglophone literature, and other stuff .
Undergraduate SF Courses (Courses with SF Content):
- LIT 4001 The Graphic Novel (one unit on superheroes)
- AML 4930 American Comics and Graphic Novels (one unit on superheroes)
- AML 4930 Superhero Comics
- LIT 4930 Spider-Man at 60
- ENL 3132 20th Century British Novel (included Hitchhiker鈥檚 Guide to the Galaxy on one occasion)
- ENL 4273 20th Century British Literature (included V for Vendetta on one occasion)
Graduate SF Courses
- LIT 5009 Comics and Graphic Novels (one unit on superheroes)
- LIT 6932 Superhero Comics
- LIT 6932 Superheroes (includes films and television, in addition to comics)
- LIT 6936/6934 Time and Space in Modern and Contemporary Literature: (includes modernist/postmodernist experiments with temporal and spatial presentation, but also includes things like H.G. Wells鈥 The Time Machine, Edwin Abbott鈥檚 Flatland, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons鈥 Watchmen, Octavia Butler鈥檚 Kindred, the films 12 Monkeys, La Jet茅e, and Primer and other texts that might be considered SF if one is flexible about the definition)
Select SF Books
with Sika Dagbovie-Mullins, eds. Mixed-Race Superheroes. Rutgers UP, 2021. Edited Collection.
Alan Moore: Conversations (editor, author of introduction and chronology). University of Mississippi Press, 2012. Edited Collection.
Select SF Articles & Book Chapters
with Sika Dagbovie-Mullins. 鈥淚ntroduction.鈥 Mixed-Race Superheroes, edited by Sika A. Dagbovie- Mullins and Eric L. Berlatsky, Rutgers UP, 2021, pp. 1-24.
鈥淔lash of Two Races: Incest, Miscegenation and the Mixed-Race Superhero in The Flash Comics and Television Show.鈥 Mixed-Race Superheroes, edited by Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins and Eric L. Berlatsky, Rutgers UP, 2021, pp. 81-102.
with Sika Dagbovie-Mullins. 鈥淭he Mixed-Race Child Within: Psychoanalyzing Race, Trauma, Vermin and Spider-Man.鈥欌 American Imago, vol. 77, no. 3, 2020, pp. 569-601. Special issue on Comics and Psychoanalysis, edited by Vera Camden.
with Sika Dagbovie-Mullins. 鈥溾楾he Only Nerdy Pakistani-American-Slash-Inhuman in the Entire Universe鈥: Postracialism and Politics in the New Ms. Marvel.鈥 Ms. Marvel鈥檚 America: No Normal, edited by Jessica Baldanzi and Hussein Rashid, U of Mississippi P, 2020, pp. 65-88.
with Sika Dagbovie-Mullins. 鈥淭he Whiteness of the Whale and the Darkness of the Dinosaur: The Africanist Presence in Superhero Comics from Black Lightning to Moon Girl.鈥 Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics, edited by Sean Guynes and P. Martin Lund, Ohio State UP, 2020, pp. 38-56.
Comics Forum, edited by Ian Hague, 11 April 2013.
鈥淭ime and Free Will: Bergson, Modernism, Superheroes, and Watchmen.鈥 Understanding Bergson, Understanding Modernism, edited by S. E. Gontarski, Laci Mattison, and Paul Ardoin, Bloomsbury, 2012, pp. 256-80.
Select SF Book Reviews, Encyclopedia Entries, Etc.
Routledge, 2022. International Journal of Comic Art.
Ohio State UP, 2021. International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 23, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2021, pp. 551-56.
U of Texas P, 2018. Imagetext, vol. 11, no. 2, 2020, 14 pars.
鈥淪unshine Superman.鈥 Rev. of Ian S. Garlington. The Adventures of Acidman: Psychedelics and the Evolution of Consciousness in Science Fiction and Superhero Comics from the 1960s Onward. Eihosha, 2016. Science Fiction Studies, no. 45, 2018, pp. 608-12.
Rutgers UP, 2016. Imagetext, vol. 9, no. 2, 2017, 13 pars.
Walter de Gruyter, 2013. Scandinavian Journal of Comic Art, vol. 2, no. 1, Nov. 2015, pp. 78-84.
Rev. of Charles Hatfield, Jeet Heer, and Kent Worcester, eds. The Superhero Reader. UP of Mississippi, 2013. Imagetext, vol. 8, no. 2, 2015, 8 pars.
鈥淭he League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.鈥 Comics Through Time: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas, vol. 4: 1995-present, edited by M. Keith Booker, Greenwood P, 2014, pp. 1598-1600.
鈥淟ost Girls.鈥 Comics Through Time: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas, vol. 4: 1995-present, edited by M. Keith Booker, Greenwood P, 2014, pp. 1611-13.
鈥淟ove and Rockets.鈥 Comics Through Time: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas, vol. 3: 1980-1995, edited by M. Keith Booker, Greenwood P, 2014, pp. 1128-30.
鈥淢oore, Alan [III].鈥 Comics Through Time: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas, vol. 3: 1980-1995, edited by M. Keith Booker, Greenwood P, 2014, pp. 1156-60.
"Moore, Alan [IV]." Comics Through Time: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas, vol. 4: 1995-present, edited by M. Keith Booker, Greenwood P, 2014, pp. 1651-55.
鈥沦补苍诲尘补苍.鈥 Comics Through Time: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas, vol. 3: 1980-1995, edited by M. Keith Booker, Greenwood P, 2014, pp. 1212-14.
鈥淰 for Vendetta.鈥 Comics Through Time: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas, vol. 3: 1980-1995, edited by M. Keith Booker, Greenwood P, 2014, pp. 1289-91.
鈥淲补迟肠丑尘别苍.鈥 Comics Through Time: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas, vol. 3: 1980-1995, edited by M. Keith Booker, Greenwood P, 2014, pp. 1294-97.
University of Mississippi P, 2004. Imagetext, vol. 6, no. 2, 2012, 12 pars.
Fantagraphics Books, 2010. Imagetext, vol. 6, no. 2, 2012, 14 pars.
Baker, Bill. 鈥淐omics: Editor Eric Berlatsky Discusses His Alan Moore: Conversations 础苍迟丑辞濒辞驳测.鈥 The Morton Report, 26 Oct. 2011.
___. 鈥淐omics: Editor Eric Berlatsky Discusses His Alan Moore: Conversations Anthology, part 2.鈥 The Morton Report , 28 Oct. 2011.
University of Mississippi P, 2009. Imagetext, vol. 5, no. 4, 2009, 12 pars.
鈥淭he Pageantry of the Past and the Reflection of the Present: History, 鈥楻eality,鈥 and Feminism in Virginia Woolf鈥檚 Between the Acts.鈥 The Twelfth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf Proceedings: Across the Generations, edited by Merry Pawlowski and Eileen Barrett, The Center for Virginia Woolf Studies, 2003, pp. 170-76.
Select SF-Related Invited Talks and Conference Presentations
with Sika Dagbovie-Mullins. 鈥淢ixed Race Superheroes.鈥 Critical Mixed-Race Studies Conference, February 2022.
with Sika Dagbovie-Mullins. 鈥淭he Mixed-Race Child Within: Psychoanalyzing Race, Trauma, Vermin, and Spider-Man.鈥 Panel on Comics on the Couch: Comics and Psychoanalysis. Modern Language Association Conference, Jan. 2021.
鈥淰ermin, the Seduction Theory, and the Psychology of Race in 鈥楽pider-Man: The Child Within.鈥欌 Michigan State University Comics Forum, Feb. 2020.
鈥淔lash of Two Races: Incest, Miscegenation, and the Mixed-Race Superhero in The Flash Comics and Television Show.鈥 Michigan State University Comics Forum, Feb. 2019.
鈥淭he Whiteness of the Whale: Black Lightning and Semiotic Reversal.鈥 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, 29 March 2018.
鈥淜ryptonians Keep Kosher: Jews and Comic-Book Superheroes," first presented as an FAU Distinguished Lecture (2018).
鈥溾楾he Only Nerdy Pakistani-American-Slash-Inhuman in the Entire Universe鈥: Post-Racialism and Politics in the New Ms. Marvel. (Part 2).鈥 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, March 2016.
鈥淲e Are Who We Choose To Be鈥: Sadistic Choices, Forking Paths, and the Rejection of Narrative and Social Progress in Superhero Comics and Film.鈥 University of Florida Comics Conference, 10-12 April 2015.
鈥淰igilantism, Superheroes, and Anti-Heroes鈥 (community presentation at public library, 2015).
鈥溾楾hey Are Real Beyond Refute鈥: Images of Fictionality in Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell鈥檚 From Hell.鈥 International Conference on Narrative, April 2011.
鈥淭ime and Free Will: Agency in Four Dimensions in the Graphic Novels of Alan Moore.鈥 Center for Body, Mind, and Culture Coffee Colloquium, 23 March 2010.
