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Anna F. Peppard earned her PhD from York University specializing in American literature. She’s published widely on representations of race, gender, and sexuality within a variety of popular media genres and forms, including action-adventure television, superhero comics, professional wrestling, and sports culture. She’s the editor of the anthology Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero (2020) and hosts two comic book podcasts, Three Panel Contrast and The Oh Gosh, Oh Golly, Oh Wow! Podcast. She’s taught many courses at York, including Comics & Cartoons, Gender Studies, and Children's Literature. As an educator, she’s especially interested in bridging divides between the literary and the popular, as well as diversifying existing canons.