Jonathan W. Gray is Associate Professor of English at John Jay College-CUNY and the CUNY Graduate Center's programs in English and Biography and Memoir. Prof. Gray's research focuses on the literature and popular cultures of the post-WWII period, with a particular focus on race plays in the construction of civic belonging. Gray is the author of Civil Rights in the White Literary Imagination and the co-editor of the essay collection Disability in Comics and Graphic Novels. Prof. Gray wrote the entry "Race" for Keywords for Comics Studies and is working on a book project--Illustrating the Race: Representing Blackness in American Comics--which traces depictions of African Americans in comics from 1966 to the present and another exploring how Black the work of a cohort of artists, writers and musicians resisted the claims of the Reagan Revolution. Prof. Gray contributes to The New Republic, and has written in the past for Film Quarterly, Entertainment Weekly, Medium, and Salon.com.