Eric Berlatsky

Eric Berlatsky is the author of  The Real, The True, and The Told: Postmodern Historical Narrative And The Ethics of Representation  (The Ohio State University Press, 2011), the editor of  Alan Moore: Conversations  (University Press of Mississippi, 2012) and, most recently, the co-editor of Mixed Race Superheroes (Rutgers UP, 2021) with FAU colleague Sika Dagbovie-Mullins.  Mixed Race Superheroes examines the relationship between racial mixedness and the superhero archetype as articulated in comics, film, television, poetry and popular culture. The Real, The True, and The Told explores the intersections of postmodern theory, narrative theory, historiographic theory, and contemporary fiction. Alan Moore: Conversations is a collection of interviews with the co-creator of Watchmen, V for Vendetta, From Hell, and Lost Girls.  Berlatsky has also authored or co-authored articles on The Flash, Black Lightning and Moon Girl, Ms. Marvel, Superman, Spider-Man (and the villain Vermin), Watchmen, Posy Simmonds' Gemma Bovery, Hanif Kureishi's The Black Album, Dickens' David Copperfield, Paul Auster's Ghosts, narrative frames, and other stuff, most of which found its way into the books. He teaches twentieth century British literature, literary theory, postcolonial literature, postmodern literature, and comics.

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