Josef Benson is associate professor of literatures and languages at the University of Wisconsin–Parkside. He is author of Star Wars: The Triumph of Nerd Culture; J. D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye”: A Cultural History; Hypermasculinities in the Contemporary Novel: Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, and James Baldwin; and coauthor with Doug Singsen of Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes: Whiteness and Its Borderlands in American Comics and Graphic Novels, published by University Press of Mississippi. For more information about the author and his work, please visit www.josefbenson.com.
