Josef BensonJosef Benson is associate professor of literatures and languages at the University of Wisconsin–Parkside. He is author of Star Wars: The Triumph of Nerd Culture; J. D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye”: A Cultural History; Hpermasculinities in the Contemporary Novel: Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, and James Baldwin; and coauthor with Doug Singsen of Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes: Whiteness and Its Borderlands in American Comics and Graphic Novels, published by University Press of Mississippi. For more information about the author and his work, please visit www.josefbenson.com. Read More Read Less