Jackson Ayres is assistant professor of English at Texas A&M University-San Antonio. His articles have appeared in Twentieth-Century Literature and Literature/Film Quarterly, among other venues. He recently curated and contributed to a cluster of articles with the theme “Comics and Modernism,” which is forthcoming in Journal of Modern Literature.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

Thus Spake Black Bolt
Saladin Ahmed and Christian Ward's "Black Bolt Vol. 1: Hard Time" speaks to reviewer Jackson Ayres....

The X-Men and the Legacy of AIDS
Jackson Ayres considers what the Legacy Virus in X-Men can tell us about how we understand AIDS....

When Were Superheroes Grim and Gritty?
The aesthetics and legacy of grim and gritty are perhaps more accurately understood as the other face of camp and irony....
