BIOGRAPHY

Rusty Hatchell (he/him) is an instructional assistant professor of film and media studies at the Texas A&M College of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts. He recently defended his dissertation titled “Mapping the Multiverse: Narrative Continuity and Industrial Logics in the Shared Television Universes of DC’s Superheroes, 1992-2022,” which used a longitudinal study of DC Comics’ expansion into television to examine how shared universes are emerging as a guiding principle of the media industries, influencing television production and distribution strategies.

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.