Daniel Stein is Professor of North American Literary and Cultural Studies and Vice-Dean for International Affairs at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Siegen, Germany. He has a PhD in American Studies from Georg-August-University Göttingen and spent a year as a postdoc at the Free University Berlin. He is the author of Music Is My Life: Louis Armstrong, Autobiography, and American Jazz (University of Michigan Press, 2012) and the forthcoming Authorizing Superhero Comics: On the Evolution of a Popular Serial Genre (Ohio State University Press). His most recent co-edited works include Migration, Diaspora, Exile: Narratives of Affiliation and Escape (with Geoffroy de Laforcade, Cathy C. Waegner, and Page Laws, Lexington Books, 2020) and Comics and Videogames: From Hybrid Medialities to Transmedia Expansions (with Jan-Noël Thon and Andreas Rauscher, Routledge, 2020). His work has appeared in journals such as Anglia: Journal of English Philology, Amerikastudien/American Studies, Journal of American Studies, Popular Music & Society, and Genre. Daniel is one of the editors of Anglia: Journal of English Philology and the Anglia book series (De Gruyter).

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