Javier Gastón-Greenberg is a doctoral candidate in Hispanic Languages and Literature at Stony Brook University working on comics and other visual media-narratives. His dissertation will focus on the construction and crisis of hero mythologies in Cuba and Latin America. With his Public Humanities Fellowship he will develop and implement a project called Hero Genesis, a high school curricula that employs comic book culture and its secret language to discover the hidden powers residing in immigrant youth in New York City. It aims to do this by channeling youth expression through professional development workshops for educators and in-school responsive curricula that harnesses multimodal comic-themed medias to generate original hero stories.
