Paul Williams is Associate Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture in the Department of English and Creative Writing at the University of Exeter. He has previously published three books: Dreaming the Graphic Novel (Rutgers UP, 2020), Paul Gilroy (Routledge, 2012), and Race, Ethnicity and Nuclear War (Liverpool UP, 2011), and he co-edited the collection The Rise of the American Comics Artist (UP of Mississippi, 2010) with James Lyons.