Ramzi Fawaz is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is currently a Stanford Humanities Center Fellow for the 2019-2020 year. Fawaz is the author of The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics (NYU Press, 2016) and has published in numerous journals including American Literature, GLQ, and Social Text among others. He is currently completing a new book titled Queer Forms, which explores the influence of movements for women's and gay liberation on American art and popular culture in the 1970s.