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José Alaniz

Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Contact Information

(206) 543-7580

Box: 354335

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

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

Summer 2019 A-term

CMS 275 A: Perspectives on Visual Culture: Sex, Race and Power

Spring 2019

C LIT 396 B: Special Studies in Comparative Literature

Winter 2019

CMS 275 A: Perspectives on Visual Culture: Sex, Race and Power: Black Panther

Autumn 2018

C LIT 396 A: Special Studies in Comparative Literature

Autumn 2017

Winter 2016

C LIT 251 B: Introduction To Comparative Literature: Themes: Food in Comics - Course Website

Summer 2015 B-term

C LIT 371 A: Literature And The Visual Arts: Comics Theory

Autumn 2014

C LIT 497 A: Special Topics In Cinema Studies: Disability in Russian Cinema

Summer 2014 B-term

C LIT 371 A: Literature And The Visual Arts: Joe Sacco and Comics Journalism - Course Website

Spring 2014

C LIT 396 A: Special Studies In Comparative Literature: The Comics Get Real: Non-Fiction in Graphic Narrative - Course Website

Autumn 2013

C LIT 497 A: Special Topics In Cinema Studies: East European Animation

Summer 2013 B-term

C LIT 371 A: Literature And The Visual Arts: THE TRANSMEDIAL ALAN MOORE

Spring 2013

C LIT 497 A: Special Topics In Cinema Studies

Summer 2011 A-term

C LIT 371 A: Literature And The Visual Arts: War in Literature and Film

Winter 2011

C LIT 396 C: Special Studies In Comparative Literature: History of Comics: "The Golden Age"

Autumn 2010

C LIT 397 C: Special Topics In Cinema Studies

Summer 2010 A-term

C LIT 371 A: Literature And The Visual Arts

Affiliations

Home Department:

Slavic Languages & Literatures

News & Events

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

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