AUSTIN – Huston-Tillotson University’s English Professor Jennine Krueger continues to stack up distinction locally and nationally as a poet and overall creative writer. Fresh off of a national poetry team second place win, Professor Krueger will lead a panel at a Wizard World Comic Con Austin event on tomorrow, Saturday, September 22. The panel will take place at Austin Convention Center from 12:30 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. in Room Six.
The panel, “Black Heroes and Diversity: Beyond the Mask and Under the Cape,” extends Krueger’s research on pop culture that
Krueger is super excited about the panel.
“For one, I think students need to see that they can do scholarship in anything they are passionate about. You can be life-long learners in any direction. Even though the original presentation was a paper, because of putting together a panel, we came up with questions such as the first superheroes we connected to and why.”
For Krueger, Iron Man was her first superhero just because he was cocky and smart.
“Then, he later becomes Riri Williams, who is a black woman. Then, there is the issue of gender; although RiRi is a woman,
