Daniel Stein is professor of North American literary and cultural studies and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Siegen, Germany. He is author of Music Is My Life: Louis Armstrong, Autobiography, and American Jazz and Authorizing Superhero Comics: On the Evolution of a Popular Serial Genre. Stein has also coedited numerous essay collections and journal issues focused on US literature, graphic narratives, nineteenth-century serial literature, and popular culture.

"Strange Fruit and Bitter Roots is an extraordinary contribution to the growing library of scholarship on comics, race, and history. Comprehensive and thoughtful, Stein uncovers a distinct set of formal techniques and cultural strategies that storytellers use to explore the meanings of the past through contemporary African American comics." - Qiana J. Whitted, author of Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics

Daniel Stein is professor of North American literary and cultural studies and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Siegen, Germany. He is author of Music Is My Life: Louis Armstrong, Autobiography, and American Jazz and Authorizing Superhero Comics: On the Evolution of a Popular Serial Genre. Stein has also coedited numerous essay collections and journal issues focused on US literature, graphic narratives, nineteenth-century serial literature, and popular culture.

"Strange Fruit and Bitter Roots is an extraordinary contribution to the growing library of scholarship on comics, race, and history. Comprehensive and thoughtful, Stein uncovers a distinct set of formal techniques and cultural strategies that storytellers use to explore the meanings of the past through contemporary African American comics." - Qiana J. Whitted, author of Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics