A. David Lewis

Based in Boston, Dr. A. David Lewis is a college educator and comics studies scholar, co-editing Muslim Superheroes: Comics, Islam, and Representation with Martin Lund. He is also the co-editor of Graven Images: Religion in Comic Books and Graphic Novels as well as Digital Death: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age. He has been featured in The Boston Globe, Publishers Weekly, Bostonia and on WAMU’s Interfaith Voices, VH-1, and Boston’s NPR affiliate WBUR. His projects include writing the new adventures of the first Muslim superhero Kismet, Man of Fate, adapting Kahlil Gibran's legendary poetry to comics, and serving as co-editor for the Graphic Medicine Review journal. Dr. Lewis recent work has expanded to include the field of health humanities and graphic medicine, specifically the depictions of cancer in comic books, the medical impacts of loneliness found in the medium, and trans and nonbinary graphic memoirs.