Although primarily a Shakespearean, he has an abiding interest in SF and fantasy and recently served as the youngest ever President of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. He has published critical essays on fantasy, monstrosity, anime, Alan Moore, the Silver Age of Comics, Kabuki, Tintin, Preacher, and Battlestar Galactica, and has given presentations on Firefly, Frankenstein, Neuromancer, Gardner’s Grendel, Gaiman and Vess’ A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Burns’ Black Hole, Duncan’s “Beluthahatchie,” Crichton’s Eaters of the Dead, the comics of Frank Miller, and the films of Miyazaki.