Come visit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum in Cleveland for two live conversations! At 1:00pm, Sarah Kuhn will be in conversation with Vera Camden and Valentino Zullo . At 2:00pm, Laura Siegel Larson will talk with Samantha Baskind.

Sarah Kuhn is an American author best known for her Heroine Complex Series, and has worked on numerous comics including Lois Lane: Girl Taking Over.

Vera J. Camden is an Emerita Professor of English at Kent State University, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University. She is Training and Supervising Analyst at the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center and Geographic Rule Supervising Analyst for the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education of the NYU Medical School. Co-editor of American Imago and American Editor for the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. She specializes in seventeenth-century British literature, psychoanalysis, and comics.

Valentino Zullo is the Anisfield-Wolf Postdoctoral Fellow in English and the Public Humanities at Ursuline College. He was the Ohio Center for the Book Scholar-in-Residence at Cleveland Public Library where he continues to co-lead the “Get Graphic” program. He is also American Editor of the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics as well as a psychotherapist in psychoanalytic training at the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center.

Laurel Siegel Larson is the daughter of Jerry Siegel, writer and creator of Superman. She has fought to retain her family’s rights to the famous character and has unique insight into his creation.

Samantha Baskind is a Professor of Art and Design at Cleveland State University. Her research focuses on 19th and 20th century Jewish art and culture.

This event, and all events for Superman’s Cleveland, is funded in part by an Ohio Humanities Ignite Grant.

Find out more about this event series here!