This volume collects essays that attend to the physicality of superheroes: the transformative bodies of superheroes, the superhero’s position in urban and natural spaces, the dialectic between the superhero’s physical and metaphysical self, and the superhero body’s relationship with violence. This will be the first collection of scholarly research specifically dedicated to investigating the diversity of superhero bodies, their emergence, their powers, their secrets, their histories and their transformations.
Wendy Haslem researches and teaches in the Screen Studies program at the University of Melbourne.
Elizabeth MacFarlane is a writer and lecturer in the Creative Writing program at the University of Melbourne.
Sarah Richardson is a PhD candidate and tutor in the English Literature program at the University of Melbourne.