José Alaniz, professor in the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures and an adjunct in the Department of Cinema & Media Studies, has published the monographs Komiks: Comic Art in Russia (University Press of Mississippi, 2010); Death, Disability and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond (UPM, 2014); Resurrection: Comics in Post-Soviet Russia (OSU Press, 2022); and Comics of the Anthropocene: Graphic Narrative at the End of Nature (UPM, 2025). He has also co-edited two essay collections, Comics of the New Europe: Reflections and Intersections (with Martha Kuhlman, Leuven University Press, 2020) and Uncanny Bodies: Disability and Superhero Comics (with Scott T. Smith, Penn State University Press, 2019). He formerly chaired the Executive Committee of the International Comic Arts Forum (ICAF) and was a founding board member of the Comics Studies Society. His published comics and fiction include The Phantom Zone & Other Stories (Amatl Comix, 2020), The Compleat Moscow Calling (Amatl, 2023), Puro Pinche True Fictions (2023), Tales of Bart: A Novel in Three Acts (2025) and Moscow 93 (2025) (the latter three from FlowerSong Press). His current scholarly projects include a monograph on the representation of historical trauma in Czech graphic narrative.