José Alaniz

Interim Chair Autumn 2025 - Winter 2026, Professor, Graduate Program Coordinator

Jose Alaniz

Contact Information

PDL A-210D

Office Hours

Autumn 2025: Tuesdays 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. online, and by appointment

Fields of Interest

20th Century Comics Comparative Literature Culture Disability Ecocriticism Film/Cinema Russian

Biography

Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 2003

Curriculum Vitae (19.89 KB)

Research

Selected Research

Autism Function in "Anton's Right Here," Cultures of Representation: Disability in World Cinema Contexts, Wallflower Press, 2016.
José Alaniz. 2014. Death, Disability and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond. University Press of Mississippi.
Review of Poka noch’ nas ne razluchit’. Kinokultura (June, 2013).
Jose Alaniz. “([Post-] Soviet Zone of Dystopia: Voronovich/Tkalenko’s Sterva.” Slavic & East European Journal, No. 57 (2) (Summer 2013).
José Alaniz. “History in Czech Comics: Lucie Lomová’s Divoši.” Ulbandus, Vol. 15 (2013).
José Alaniz. “Stuttering, Glossolalia and The Body in Sorokin’s A Month in Dachau.” Vladimir Sorokin's Languages. Ed. Tine Roesen and Dirk Uffelmann. Bergen: University of Bergen Press, 2013.
José Alaniz. “‘Will You Listen to That!’: (Dis)Ability in Moore/Willingham’s In Blackest Night.” Comics Forum (Sept. 7, 2012).
José Alaniz. “Czech Comics Anthropology: Life and Story in O přibjehi: Keva.” Comics Forum (May 11, 2012).
José Alaniz. "Crowd Control: Anxiety of Effluence in Sokurov's 'Russian Ark.'" in Sokurov anthology, ed. Birgit Beumers and Nancy Condee.
José Alaniz. 2010. Komiks: Comic Art in Russia. University Press of Mississippi.
Alaniz, José. Comics and History in the Czech Lands.

Research Advised

Courses Taught

Autumn 2025

Spring 2025

RUSS 323 A: Revolution: Twentieth Century Russian Literature and Culture

Winter 2025

GLITS 252 C: Introduction to Global Literatures: Literary Genres Across Time and Place

Autumn 2024

RUSS 430 A: Major Authors

Spring 2024

Winter 2024

Autumn 2023

Spring 2023

Winter 2023

Winter 2022

Affiliations

Home Department

Slavic Languages & Literatures

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Professor José Alaniz interviews and reviews Czech comics artist Štěpánka Jislová (September 18, 2025)
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Professor José Alaniz reviews "Background" (September 18, 2025)
New Release: Contemporary Slavic Horror across Media: Cursed Zones (May 27, 2025)
BOOK RELEASE | Moscow 93 by UW Slavic Department Professor Jose Alaniz (May 13, 2025)
Dr. José Alaniz reviews translation of Bald by Tereza Čechová and Štěpánka Jislová (January 29, 2025)
University Book Store Presents José Alaniz with Diana Flores Ruíz (November 22, 2023)
“Ways of Knowing” Episode 5: Disability Studies (October 10, 2023)
Recent Publications: Essays and Award Nominations from Profesor José Alaniz (May 22, 2023)
Recent Publications: Essays and Reviews from Profesor José Alaniz (April 11, 2023)
NEW RELEASE: The Compleat Moscow Calling by José Alaniz (March 15, 2023)
Professor José Alaniz Reviews "Accidental Czar: The Life and Lies of Vladimir Putin" (December 13, 2022)
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Professor José Alaniz Publishes New Book (February 23, 2022)
Professor José Alaniz Publishes New Essay (December 16, 2021)
Dr. José Alaniz publishes new film review! (October 18, 2021)
Dr. José Alaniz Publishes New Film Review (July 20, 2021)
"Faculty/staff honors: Field research grant, staffer’s play streams, cartoon remembrance UW News staff" (March 2, 2021)
New Film Review Out! (October 15, 2020)
Dr. José Alaniz Publishes New Essay (September 23, 2020)
Dr. José Alaniz Publishes Essay in NYU Jordan Center Blog (June 16, 2020)
Professor José Alaniz Co-edits Newly Released Book! (May 20, 2020)
Professor José Alaniz Reviews "Quiet Comes the Dawn" (April 2, 2020)
Q&A with Professor José Alaniz (November 13, 2019)
Prof José Alaniz review of "Deep Rivers" (April 9, 2019)
New movie review from Prof José Alaniz (July 11, 2018)
José Alaniz selected to be recognized at the Latinx Faculty Recognition Event (April 13, 2018)
Recent publications by José Alaniz (January 23, 2018)
Faculty Friday: José Alaniz (October 20, 2017)
Prof José Alaniz reviews the Russian Superhero Movie “Guardians” (October 16, 2017)
Prof. Jose Alaniz and Ph.d. Student Veronica Muskheli team up to translate a Russian Sci-Fi story (September 18, 2017)
Prof. José Alaniz has a cartoon published on the Seattle Weekly website (July 18, 2016)
José Alaniz's review of the film "Insight" (July 11, 2016)
José Alaniz's essay in Cultures of Representation: Disability in World Cinema Contexts (April 5, 2016)
Professor Jose Alaniz reviews Russian scifi film "The Guest" (October 14, 2015)
Professor Jose Alaniz reviews new Ukrainian film, "Corrections Class" (January 5, 2015)
Alaniz becomes Disability Studies director (April 16, 2014)
Alaniz's book soon out as paperback (March 24, 2014)
Professor José Alaniz publishes two articles in summer 2013 (October 21, 2013)
Alaniz elected chair of ICAF (November 23, 2011)
Congrats to alumna Emily Schuckman (January 7, 2011)
José goes national (October 5, 2010)

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