In this episode, which we recorded back in November of 2020, we speak with Eric Berlatsky and Sika Dagbovie-Mullins, co-editors of the edited collection “Mixed-Race Superheroes” from Rutgers University Press.

Eric Berlatsky is Professor of English, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, and Director of the PhD in Comparative Studies at Florida Atlantic University. He is the author of  The Real, The True, and The Told: Postmodern Historical Narrative And The Ethics of Representation  (The Ohio State University Press, 2011), and is the editor of  Alan Moore: Conversations  (University Press of Mississippi, 2012). He has also authored or co-authored articles on The Flash, Black Lightning and Moon Girl, Ms. Marvel, Superman, Spider-Man (and the villain Vermin), Watchmen, Posy Simmonds' Gemma Bovery, Hanif Kureishi's The Black Album, Dickens' David Copperfield, Paul Auster's Ghosts, narrative frames, and other stuff, most of which found its way into the books.

Sika Dagbovie-Mullins is associate professor in the Department of English at Florida Atlantic University where she specializes in modern and 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 (U of Tennessee P, 2013) and co-editor of Mixed-Race Superheroes (Rutgers UP). Her articles 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.