W&L Professors Collaborate on New Book Chris Gavaler and Nathaniel Goldberg published “Superhero Thought Experiments.”

By Erica Turman
September 9, 2019

Washington and Lee University professors Chris Gavaler, associate professor of English, and Nathaniel Goldberg, professor of philosophy, published “Superhero Thought Experiments” (University of Iowa Press).

In the book, Gavaler and Goldberg examine philosophical topics addressed in superhero comics and discuss how comics experiment with complex issues of morality, metaphysics, meaning and medium.