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 Winter 2025C LIT 252 C: Introduction to Comparative Literature: GenresCMS 321 A: Oppositional Cinema/MediaAutumn 2024C LIT 362 A: Topics in Modern LiteratureSpring 2024C LIT 252 A: Introduction to Comparative Literature: GenresC LIT 362 A: Topics in Modern LiteratureWinter 2024C LIT 362 B: Topics in Modern LiteratureCMS 321 A: Oppositional Cinema/MediaAutumn 2023C LIT 362 A: Topics in Modern LiteratureCMS 275 A: Perspectives on Visual Culture: Sex, Race and PowerSpring 2023C LIT 320 A: Studies in European LiteratureWinter 2023C LIT 362 B: Topics in Modern LiteratureCMS 397 A: Special Topics in Cinema and Media StudiesAutumn 2022CMS 275 A: Perspectives on Visual Culture: Sex, Race and PowerWinter 2022CMS 397 A: Special Topics in Cinema and Media StudiesAutumn 2021CMS 275 A: Perspectives on Visual Culture: Sex, Race and PowerSpring 2021C LIT 250 A: Introduction to Comparative Literature: Literature and CultureWinter 2021CMS 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)