Michael Arthur Soares

Books

Superhero Rhetoric from Exceptionalism to Globalization: Up, Up and...Abroad, Lexington, 2024.

Teaching with Dystopian Text: Exploring Orwellian Spaces for Student Empowerment and Resilience, Routledge, 2024.

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Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

"Superman's Pals: Legacy Actors and Continuity in a Meta-Franchise." The Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 56, no 3-4, 2023, pp. 543-564.

“Superman v. Specialman: Rhetorical Border Crossings of Unlicensed Superheroes.” The Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 53, no. 3, 2020. pp. 600-625.

“Waking Up to Orwellian Spaces: Conscious Students and Dystopian Texts.” English Journal, vol. 109, no 3, 2020, pp. 74-80.

“Batroversy: Counterpublics and Antecedent Rhetorics in the Casting of Batman.” Popular Culture Review, vol. 27, no. 2, 2016, pp. 43-69.

“The Man of Tomorrow: Superman from American Exceptionalism to Globalization.” The Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 48, no. 4, 2015, pp. 747-761.

“Lives in Movie Stills: Pedagogy, Bruce Lee, and Me.” Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion, vol.13, 2015.

“Eating Genre for Breakfast: The Cereal Box Experience.” Grassroots Writing Research Journal, vol 4, no. 1, 2013, pp. 7-15.

“Grim Visions in the Classroom: Dystopian Texts and Adolescent Readers.” SIGNAL Journal, vol. 36, no. 2, Fall 2011/Winter 2012, pp. 27-30.

Book Chapters

"Use the Spoon, Luke! Transmedia and Infographic Storytelling of Star Wars Cereal Boxes." From Lucas to Disney: Star Wars in the Twenty-First Century. Forthcoming, 2024.

"Conscious Counter-Reality: Lexical Cohesion and Anti-Language in Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century." Science Fantasy: Critical Explorations in Literature, Cinema and Popular Culture, edited by Cenk Tan, Elçīn Parçaoğlu and Nazan Yildiz Çīçekçī, Rowman & Littlefield, 2024, pp. 133-152.

​“All the President’s Supermen: Political Appropriations of Superhero Rhetoric." The Superhero Multiverse: Readapting Comic Book Icons in Twenty-First-Century Film and Popular Media, edited by Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Lexington, 2021, pp. 281-300.

“Here’s Looking at You, Kids: The Urgency of Dystopian Texts in the Secondary Classroom.” Worlds Gone Awry: Essays on Dystopian Fiction, edited by John J. Han, C. Clark Triplett, and Ashley G. Anthony, McFarland, 2018, pp. 225-244.