Josef Benson

Josef Benson offers courses in contemporary literature, African American literature, film, poetry writing, fiction writing, and composition. He is the author of several books, including, most recently, Infinity Land: The Untold Story of Jeffrey Dahmer (University Press of Mississippi 2026) and Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes: Whiteness and Its Borderlands in American Comics and Graphic Novels (University Press of Mississippi 2022) for which he and co-author Doug Singsen were nominated for the prestigious Will Eisner Comics Industry Award. He holds creative writing degrees from Missouri State University and the University of South Florida as well as a Ph.D. in literature also from the University of South Florida. For more information, visit josefbenson.com.