Digital Baubles

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When I started as an editorial assistant at Oxford University Press ten months ago, two of the first titles I began work on were Our Superheroes, Ourselves, edited by Robin Rosenberg, and What is a Superhero?, edited by Robin Rosenberg and Peter Coogan…It’s been a fantastic opportunity to work on a project whose topic was so close to my heart. The books operate at a unique and brilliant intersection between enthusiastic love and academic inquiry—celebrating superheroes even as they ask why they remain such compelling and permanent fixtures in our cultural landscape.

Getting so close to publication!! Also, I’ve officially given up on trying to keep my professional and fannish personas seperate when it comes to publicizing these :P. These are those superhero books I’ve been clandestinely(ish) talking about for months, friends, and this is the most official plug I’ll be making for them. Don’t have much to add other than what’s in the post, but—these books are really cool, y’all.

Also, if my word isn’t enough, I might add that the back cover of What is a Superhero? is going to feature endorsements from two of my own real-life heroes: Karen Green, graphic novels librarian extraordinaire, and Kelly Sue DeConnick, writer extraordinaire. I think the blurbs are up on the webpage already, so if you don’t believe me when I say that it’s pretty great, you should believe them :D.