José Alaniz

Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Contact Information

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 2025

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

Winter 2025

Autumn 2024

C LIT 362 A: Topics in Modern Literature

Spring 2024

Winter 2024

Autumn 2023

Spring 2023

C LIT 320 A: Studies in European Literature

Winter 2023

Autumn 2022

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

Winter 2022

CMS 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)

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