Vincent Haddad is an assistant professor of English at Central State University. He is currently working on his first book, “Touch Me: Loneliness, Intimacy, and the Contemporary Bookish Novel,” for consideration by SUNY Press. His writing on literature and comics has appeared or is forthcoming in Black Perspectives, The Rambling, LA Review of Books, Post45, The Comparatist, ImageTexT, and Orbit.











