Associate Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures; Director, Disability Studies Program
Biography
José Alaniz, associate professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Department of Comparative Literature (adjunct) at the University of Washington - Seattle, authored Komiks: Comic Art in Russia in 2010 and Death, Disability and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond in 2014 ( both published by the University Press of Mississippi). He chairs the Executive Committee of the International Comic Arts Forum (ICAF), the leading comics studies conference in the US. His current projects include a study of disability in Euro-American graphic narrative and a history of Czech comics.