Name: Ashley P. Jones

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Category: Announcements and Queries

Subject Line: In Media Res – Black Superheroes

 

This week's In Media Res theme focus is Black Superheroes (6/4/18-6/8/18)

 

Here is the lineup: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/

 

Monday, June 4, 2018 – Jayson Quearry (Georgia State University) presents: Meteor Man as Representation of Black Communal Superhero

 

Tuesday, June 5, 2018 – Dan Hassler-Forest (Utrecht University) presents: BLADE and the Foundations of Marvel’s Superhero Empire

 

Wednesday, June 6, 2018- Graham Eng-Wilmot (Goucher College) presents: “We Don’t Need Another Hero”: Tina Turner as Black Anti-Hero

 

Thursday, June 7, 2018 – Jazmine R. Hudson (Georgia State University) presents: I’d Die Without You: Boomerang’s Black Female Superheroes

 

Friday, June 8, 2018 – Kathryn M. Frank (Young Harris College) presents: Spawn and the “Missing” Black Superhero

 

Theme week organized by Jayson Quearry (Georgia State University).  

 

To find links for each day's posts and stay up to date on our latest calls for curators, please be sure to "like" our Facebook page:  https://www.facebook.com/mediacommons.inmediares/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel

 

You can also follow us on Twitter at @MC_IMR.

 

For more information, please contact In Media Res at [log in to unmask] or email the Associate Editor, Geoffrey D. Henry, at [log in to unmask]

 

Best,

 

The In Media Res Team


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