2009 Alumni Promise Award Winner
Brannon Costello is the Barbara Womack Alumni Professor and James F. Cassidy Professor of English at LSU, specializing in southern and comics studies. He is the author of Neon Visions: The Comics of Howard Chaykin and Plantation Airs, and co-editor of several volumes including Comics and the U.S. South. His current research explores Swamp Thing through ecocriticism and southern studies. A recipient of the Richard Updike Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award, Costello also serves as Associate Editor of Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society and has published widely in leading academic journals.
