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Ramzi Fawaz is professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of two monographs, including The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics (2016), which won the ASAP Book Prize, and Queer Forms (2022), both published by NYU Press. With Aaron Trammell and Gayle Wald, he is the co-editor of the NYU Press book series Postmillennial Pop. Fawaz is currently at work on a new book project titled “Literary Theory on Acid: Reading for Diversity in the Psychedelic Era.” As part of this project, he recently edited a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly on the topic of “Psychedelic Imaginaries,” which was published in April 2025.