BIOGRAPHY

Rusty Hatchell (he/him) is a Visiting Lecturer of Film and Media Studies in the College of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts at Texas A&M University. He recently defended his dissertation, “Mapping the Multiverse: Narrative Continuity and Industrial Logics in the Shared Television Universes of DC’s Superheroes, 1992-2022,” which studied DC Comics’ expansion into television from 1992 to 2022 to examine how shared universes have been emerging as a guiding principle of the media industries, influencing production and distribution strategies from network and cable television to streaming platforms.

His scholarly work has appeared in Middle West Review, the Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, Flow: A Critical Forum on Media and Culture, In Media Res, and the edited collection After Midnight: Watchmen after Watchmen.