Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures Contact Information jos23@uw.edu (206) 543-7580 PDL A210D Fields of Interest Comics Death and Dying Disability Ecocriticism Film/Cinema Post-Soviet Russian Culture Russian Biography Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 2003 Research Selected Research Comics of the New Europe: Reflections and Intersections. Edited by Martha Kuhlman and José Alaniz. Leuven University Press, 2020. Uncanny Bodies: Superhero Comics and Disability. Edited by Scott T. Smith and José Alaniz. Penn State University Press, 2019. José Alaniz. Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond. University Press of Mississippi: 2014. José Alaniz, trans. "The Sugar Disease" by Viktor Puchkov. Glas: New Russian Writing 47. 2010. José Alaniz. Komiks: Comic Art in Russia. University Press of Mississippi: 2010. Courses Taught Spring 2025CMS 275 A: Perspectives on Visual Culture: Sex, Race and Power Winter 2025C LIT 252 C: Introduction to Comparative Literature: Genres CMS 321 A: Oppositional Cinema/Media Autumn 2024C LIT 362 A: Topics in Modern Literature Spring 2024C LIT 252 A: Introduction to Comparative Literature: Genres C LIT 362 A: Topics in Modern Literature Winter 2024C LIT 362 B: Topics in Modern Literature CMS 321 A: Oppositional Cinema/Media Autumn 2023C LIT 362 A: Topics in Modern Literature CMS 275 A: Perspectives on Visual Culture: Sex, Race and Power Spring 2023C LIT 320 A: Studies in European Literature Winter 2023C LIT 362 B: Topics in Modern Literature CMS 397 A: Special Topics in Cinema and Media Studies Autumn 2022CMS 275 A: Perspectives on Visual Culture: Sex, Race and Power Winter 2022CMS 397 A: Special Topics in Cinema and Media Studies Affiliations Home Department Slavic Languages & Literatures Related News Related News Cinema DNA: The Elephant Man (January 29, 2019) Cinema Dissection: Battleship Potemkin (October 30, 2018) José Alaniz featured on The Whole U's Faculty Friday Spotlight (October 23, 2017) Associate Professor Jose Alaniz reviews new Russian film (January 5, 2015) New faculty publication: Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond (October 22, 2014) José Alaniz to assume the directorship of the UW Disability Studies Program (April 17, 2014) Jose Alaniz awarded a Smithsonian Latino Studies Fellowship (May 17, 2012) Winter Q 2011 course C LIT 396C: History of Comics (December 6, 2010)