Popular Culture Studies and Bruce Springsteen: Escaping and Embracing Religion

From the Ku Klux Klan to Zombies

Popular Culture, Dr. Who, and Religion

by A. David Lewis 12 October 2016 “Real Life Superheroes: Marvel’s Newest Comic About a Syrian Mom, Struggling to Survive” (Originally titled, “The Power of Comics to Educate, Humanize, and Deceive”) Excerpt: These comics are fulfilling the promise of their medium, doing a service in the name of awareness-raising for Syria. But are they doing […]

by A. David Lewis, Michael Pregill, and Hussein Rashid 10 April 2017 “We Are All Children of the Atom: Marvel’s X-Men Gold Controversy, the Qurʾān, and the Problem of Diversity” Excerpt: Marvel’s official statement shows that the anti-Jewish and anti-Christian content was inserted without the approval of management. At the same time, it passed through […]

From the article by Abbi Matheson, 1/25/18: Lewis discovered Kismet while working on a project at Duke University in their Islamic Studies Center. The project, entitled ISLAMiCommentary, looked at both good and bad depictions of Muslims and Islam is all mediums. Lewis focused his research on comics. […] Today, Kismet lives in the Greater Boston […]