ABOUT THE EDITOR AND THE CONTRIBUTORS 743
taught at UEA, Norwich University College of the Arts, and Lowestoft College, and is
currently writing Superheroic Bodies: Th e Corporealities of Contemporary Film Superheroes.
Jeff McLaughlin is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Th ompson Rivers Univer-
sity, Kamloops British Columbia. He is author/editor of Comics as Philosophy (2005),
Stan Lee: Conversations (2007), and An Introduction to Philosophy: In Black and White
and Colour (2010).
Chris Murray lectures on English and Film Studies at the University of Dundee,
Scotland, where he is the head of English. His main research interest is comics.
He is a central member of the Scottish Word and Image Group (SWIG), which
organizes annual conferences on aspects of word and image study. His book on
superheroes and propaganda is being published by Hampton Press. He organizes an
annual conference on comics as part of the Dundee Literary Festival and is editor of
the new journal Studies in Comics , forthcoming from Intellect.
Nhu-Hoa Nguyen holds a PhD in Semiology (Université du Québec à Montréal)
and teaches Visual Semiotics, Comics Critical Analysis, and History of Comic Art
in the comics undergraduate program at the Université du Québec en Outaouais, in
Québec. Her fi elds of research include rhetorical fi gures, comics studies and Peircean
studies.
Michelle Nolan is a journalist and widely recognized authority on romance comics.
She is the author of Love on the Racks: A History of American Romance Comics (2008).
Mark O’English is the university archivist at Washington State University in Pull-
man, Washington, where he works with their underground comics collections. He has
worked for Marvel Publishing as a researcher/writer on numerous reference publica-
tions, including their lines of encyclopedias and offi cial handbooks.
Jared L. Olmsted is a budding comics historian currently residing in Brooklyn,
New York. He is a former Picturebox Inc. volunteer as well as the founder and curator
of Marginalia , a mini-comix festival housed in downtown LA’s infamous multi-use
space, Th e Smell.
Robert O’Nale lives in Arkadelphia, Arkansas and graduated from Henderson State
University’s Master of Liberal Arts program in 2008. He is revising his master’s thesis
for publication, which focuses on Gestalt psychology and comic books. He has pre-
sented on comic books and visual theory at the Comic Arts Conference at Wondercon
in San Francisco and Comic-Con International in San Diego.
