Join us for a presentation by Sam Langsdale, author of Searching for Feminist Superheroes: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Marvel Comics, published this September. Her research explores how female-led superhero comics with diverse, inclusive storytelling thrive on the margins of the mainstream genre. Through a feminist lens, Langsdale reveals how these marginalized spaces become sites of innovation, shaping powerful superhero narratives that challenge and redefine traditional norms.
Dr. Sam Langsdale (she/her) is an independent feminist scholar whose work focuses on the cultural politics around representations of gender, sexuality, and race in visual culture. Her comics research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, and in award-winning volumes like Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero (UT Press). She is also the proud co-editor of Monstrous Women in Comics published by University Press of Mississippi. Her monograph, Searching for Feminist Superheroes: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Marvel Comics, published by the University of Texas Press, is now available. You can read more about her work here: https://www.samlangsdale.com/
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