Julian C. Chambliss is Professor of English with an appointment in History and the Val Berryman Curator of History at the MSU Museum at Michigan State University. He is co-director for the Department of English Digital Humanities and Literary Cognition Lab (DHLC) and a core participant in the MSU College of Arts & Letters’ Consortium for Critical Diversity in a Digital Age Research (CEDAR). His research interests focus on race, culture, and power in real and imagined spaces. His recent writings on comics have appeared in More Critical Approaches to Comics (2019) and The Ages of Black Panther (2020). Beyond the Black Panther: Visions of Afrofuturism in American Comics, his exhibition is currently available virtually through the MSU Museum. He is co-editor of Ages of Heroes, Eras of Men: Superheroes and the American Experience (2013), Assembling the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Essays on the Social, Cultural and Geopolitical Domain (2018), and Cities Imagined: The African Diaspora in Media and History (2018). Chambliss comics and digital humanities projects include The Graphic Possibilities OER, an open educational resource focused on comics and Critical Fanscape, a student-centered critical making project focus on culture and community connected to comics in the United States. He serves as faculty lead for the Graphic Possibilities Research Workshop in the Department of English and Comics as Data North America (CaDNA) an ongoing collaborative project at Michigan State University that uses library catalog data to explore North American comic culture.