Eric L. Berlatsky

Eric Berlatsky (1972-) is Professor of English, Interim Chair of the Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature (LLCL) and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL. Born in Pennsylvania, he received his education at Washington University in St. Louis and University of Maryland, College Park. He has written one book of literary criticism on postmodern historical fiction (The Real, The True, and the Told), edited a book of interviews with comics auteur Alan Moore (Alan Moore: Conversations), and co-edited a collection of essays on the relationship between racial mixedness and the superhero archetype (Mixed Race Superheroes, with Sika Dagbovie-Mullins). He teaches and writes about 20th century British and postcolonial literature, comic books and graphic novels, postmodernism, narrative theory, and critical theory. He has also published articles about Charles Dickens, narrative frames, Paul Auster, Julian Barnes, Alan Moore and Henri Bergson, Hanif Kureishi and Prince, Graham Swift, Virginia Woolf, Posy Simmonds, Ms. Marvel, Superman, Black Lightning and Moon Girl, and Spider-Man and Vermin. He lives in South Florida with his wife, daughter and two cats. The other daughter has fled for colder climates but is welcome home any time.