Ramzi Fawaz is a Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he currently holds a Romnes Faculty Fellowship for advanced research in the humanities. He is the author of two monographs, including The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radi­cal Imagination of American Comics (2016), which won the ASAP book prize, and Queer Forms (2022). With Darieck Scott he coedited a special issue of American Literature titled “Queer About Comics,” which won the 2019 best special issue of the year award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. Alongside Deborah E. Whaley and Shelley Streeby, he coedited Keywords for Comics Studies, which was selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2022. Fawaz is currently at work on a new book project titled Literary Theory on Acid: Reading for Diversity in the Psychedelic Era, in which he argues for the necessity of literary and cultural studies approaches to the contemporary psychedelic renaissance; as part of this project, he is editing a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly on “Psychedelic Imaginaries.”

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