ABOUT THE EDITOR AND THE CONTRIBUTORS 739
to comic book readers. Previously she worked as young adult librarian and researcher for
the International Center for Children’s and Young Adults’ Books (Salamanca, Spain).
Charles Coletta earned both his BA and MA in Literature from John Carroll Uni-
versity, Cleveland, Ohio and his doctorate in American Culture Studies from Bowling
Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. He has taught in the Department of
Popular Culture at BGSU since 2000. In 2006, he assisted Eva Marie Saint in prepar-
ing for her role as “Ma Kent” in Superman Returns.
Peter Coo g an is the director of the Institute for Comics Studies and the co-founder
and co-chair of the Comics Arts Conference. He teaches at Webster University and
Washington University, both in St. Louis. He is the author of Superhero: Th e Secret
Origin of a Genre (2006).
Rikke Platz Cortsen is a PhD student at the University of Copenhagen. She holds
an extended MA in Comparative Literature, graduating with a thesis about the con-
struction of time and space in comics written by Alan Moore. She teaches classes in
literature and comics, and writes for Danish comics magazine STRIP!.
Brannon Costello is associate professor of English at Louisiana State University, where
he specializes in American literature, Southern studies, and comics. He is the author of
Plantation Airs: Racial Paternalism and the Transformations of Class in Southern Fiction,
1945–1971 (2007) and numerous articles and essays.
Christopher Couch teaches comparative literature at the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Latin American art and
on graphic novels and comic art, including Th e Will Eisner Companion: Th e Pioneer-
ing Spirit of the Father of the Graphic Novel (with Stephen Weiner), and Will Eisner:
A Retrospective (with Peter Myer).
Corey K. Creekmur is an associate professor of English and Film Studies at the Univer-
sity of Iowa, where he also directs the Institute for Cinema and Culture. His publications
include studies of American and Indian cinema, popular music, and comics.
Craig Crowder is a PhD student at the University of Kentucky’s Department of
English and a life-long reader of comics. His research interests include 19th-century
British literature and cultural studies.
Ed Cunard graduated with an MA in Literature from Indiana University of Penn-
sylvania in 2009.
