History and Team
A Brief History
Established in 2015 by Danny Graydon and Dr Barbara Brownie in collaboration with Inter-Disciplinary.Newt, The Superhero Project was the first academic conference solely dedicated to the superhero genre, initially run at Mansfield College in Oxford. Following the demise of I-D.net, The Superhero Project became a collaboration between Graydon - an academic with University of Hertfordshire, UK - and Dr Torsten Caeners of University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, who was a delegate at the first edition of the conference. The Superhero Project was revived in late 2019 with its third edition in Mulheim an Der Ruhr in Germany, where it continues to run.
The Superhero Project has quickly distinguished itself as an invigoratingly diverse showcase of critical coverage of the superhero genre, amply demonstrating the scope of potential thereby illuminating what is a truly vibrant area of pop culture scholarship. The project is currently gearing up for it's fifth global conference, to be held between 10th and 12th September, 2021
Previous Delegates
Laura Antola
Kristin Aubel
Rafael Alves Azevedo
Matteo Barbagello
Kirsten Baumgartner
Rory Bines-Morris
Anke Bock
Barbara Brownie
Torsten Caenars
Daniel J. Connell
Matthew Costello
Laura Crossley
Esther De Dauw
Jean-Guy P. Ducreux
Stefanie Dullisch
Randy Duncon
Sara K. Ellis
Owen Farrington
Marco Favaro
Teresa Forde
Vincent M. Gaine
Nicolas Gaspers
Danny Graydon
John Harnett
Mark Hibbett
Jessica Hoffmann
Tiffany Hong
Robert Hyland
Nicholas T. James
Matthias Keidel
Martine Klein
Svenja Kolpack
Mikayla J. Laird
Freyja Alice McCreery
Johnny McGuire
Dan O’Rourke
Derya Ozkan
Ashika Paramita
Yago Paris
Bruno Porto
Richard Reynolds
Irene Zarza Rubio
Ranhild Salzer
Karen Sugrue
Joao Senna Teixeira
James C. Taylor
Eva M. Thury
Rabeb Touihri
Daniel Trottier
Caleb Turner
Alex Van Ommen
Carl Wilson
Sarah Young