Biko Caruthers is a Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow and Assistant Professor in the English Department at NYU. He received his PhD in Afro-American Studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. He specializes in African American Literature, American comics and Black visual culture from the nineteenth century to the present, with an emphasis on Black critical theory.

His current book project considers how the nineteenth century makes possible the figure of the superhero and the villain as it emerges in its post-1945 context by way of Marvel and DC Comics. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on 19th and 20th Century African American Literature and American comics.

When he is not reading or writing, he spends his time managing his action figure collection and visiting various coffee shops in Brooklyn.