Books
The 100 Greatest Black Comic Book Characters, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Under Contract).
Cities Imagined: The African Diaspora in Media and History edited by Walter Greason and Julian C. Chambliss (Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing, 2018).
Assembling the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Essays on the Social, Cultural and Geopolitical Domain edited by Julian C. Chambliss, William Svitavsky, and Daniel Fandino (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2018).
Ages of Heroes, Eras of Men: Superheroes and the American Experience edited by Julian C. Chambliss, William Svitavsky, and Thomas C. Donaldson (Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, September 2014), Paperback.
Ages of Heroes, Eras of Men: Superheroes and the American Experience edited by Julian C. Chambliss, William Svitavsky & Thomas C. Donaldson, (Newcastle Upon Tyne UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013).
Chapters
“An Afrofuturist Legacy: Neil Knight and Black Speculative Capital,” in Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics, ed. Qiana Whitted, 1st ed. (New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 2023), 281–96.
Zeynep Teymuroglu and Julian C. Chambliss, “Forecasting the Past: Teaching Regression,” Mathematics and Social Justice: Focusing on Quantitative Reasoning and Statistics edited by Lily Khadjavi and Gizem Karaali. (MAA Press: An Imprint of the American Mathematical Society, 2022).
“Introduction: Laboring for Freedom,” in Turner Families Stories, edited by Andy Kolovos (Middlebury: Vermont Folklife Center, Summer 2021).
Samantha Cutrara and Julian Chambliss, “In Conversation with Dr. Julian Chambliss,” in Pandemic Pedagogy, 1st ed. (Toronto, Ont., Canada: York University, 2020), https://pressbooks.library.yorku.ca/pandemicpedagogy/chapter/julianchambliss27/.
“A Different Nation: Continuing a Legacy of Decolonization in Black Panther,” in The Ages of the Black Panther edited by Joseph J. Darowski (Jefferson, N.C: McFarland, 2020).
“Brotherman and Big City: A Commentary on Superhero Geography,” in More Critical Approaches to Comics edited by Matthew J. Smith, Randy Duncan and Matthew Brown (New York: Routledge, 2019).
“March 4, 1893,” in Black Quotidian: Everyday History in African-American Newspapers by Matthew F. Delmont, (Stanford University Press, 2019).
“Don’t Call Them Memorials,” in Controversial Monuments and Memorials: A Guide for Community Leaders edited by David Allison (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018).
Julian C. Chambliss and Michael Gunter, “Understanding Our Urban Environment Better,” in Teaching Education for Sustainable Development at University Level edited by Walter Leal Filho and Paul Pace (Springer International Publishing, 2016).
“Archetype or Token?: The Challenge of the Black Panther,” in Marvel Comics into film: Essays on adaptations since the 1940s edited by Matthew McEniry, Robert Moses Peaslee and Robert G. Weiner (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2016).
“War Machine: Blackness, Power, and Identity in Iron Man,” in The Ages of Iron Man: Essays on the Armored Avenger in Changing Times edited by Joseph J. Darowski (Jefferson, N.C: McFarland, 2015).
“Upgrading the Cold War Framework: Iron Man, the Military Industrial Complex and American Defense,” in Ages of Heroes, Eras of Men: Superheroes and the American Experience edited by Julian C. Chambliss, William Svitavsky, and Thomas C. Donaldson (Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, September 2013).
Articles
Kate Topham, Julian Chambliss, Justin Wigard and Nicole Huff, “The Marmaduke Problem: A Case Study of Comics as Linked Open (Meta)Data,” KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies 6, no. 3 (July 27, 2022): 1–8, https://doi.org/10.18357/kula.225.
Julian Carlos Chambliss et al., “Days of Future Past: Why Race Matters in Metadata,” Genealogy 6, no. 2 (June 2022): 47, https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy6020047.
Julian C. Chambliss and Scot French, “A Generative Praxis: Curation, Creation, and Black Counterpublics,” Scholarly Editing 39 (April 11, 2022), https://doi.org/10.55520/205ZRSF3.
Wenxian Zhang, Rahim Raja, and Julian Chambliss, “Race and Sport in the Florida Sun: The Rollins/Ohio Wesleyan Football Game of 1947,” Phylon 56, no. 2 (Winter 2019): 59–81.
Martha S. Cheng and Julian C. Chambliss, “The 1909 Plan of Chicago as Representative Anecdote: Envisioning Citizenship at the Turn of the Century,” Rhetoric Review (April 2016).
Kathryn Tomasek, Julian Chambliss, and Lloyd Benson, “Local Collections and Liberal Education in History,” In Proceedings of the 2012 NITLE Symposium, ed. Rebecca Frost Davis and Lisa Spiro. <http://symposium.nitle.org/concurrent-sessions-tuesday-april-17-2012/session-2-d-panel/local-collections-and-liberal-education-in-history-tomasek-benson-chambliss/
Julian C. Chambliss and Denise K. Cummings, “Florida: The Mediated State,” The Florida Historical Quarterly Volume 90, No 3. (Winter 2012).
“Superhero Comics: Artifacts of the U.S. Experience,” Juniata Voices Volume 12 (Fall 2012): 145-151.
“Perfecting Space: J. Horace McFarland and the American Civic Association,” Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Special Issue, Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies Volume 77, No 4. (Autumn 2010).
Julian C. Chambliss and William Svitavsky, “From Pulp Hero to Superhero: Culture, Race, and Identity in American Popular Culture, 1900-1940” Studies in American Culture Volume 30, No 1. (October 2008).
“A Question of Progress and Welfare: The Jitney Bus Phenomenon in Atlanta, 1915-1925” Georgia Historical Quarterly Volume 92, No 4. (Winter 2008).
Julian C. Chambliss and David Irving, “Chai, Songyue” and “Feng, Lun” Biographical Dictionary of New Chinese Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders Edited by Wenxian Zhang and Ilan Alon (Edward Elgar, 2009).
Julian Chambliss and Mareike Fetscherin, “Henry Ying Tung Fok” and “Shen Taifu” Biographical Dictionary of New Chinese Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders Edited by Wenxian Zhang and Ilan Alon (Edward Elgar, 2009).
“Bao, Yugang,” Biographical Dictionary of New Chinese Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders Edited by Wenxian Zhang and Ilan Alon (Edward Elgar, 2009).
“Gulf South,” Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration Edited by Steven A. Reich. Vol. 1 (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2006).
“Beautification and Regional Identity: Conflict and Compromise in the United States during the City Beautiful Movement,” Florida Conference of Historians Proceedings 13 (2006).
Digital Publications
Julian Chambliss and Ellen Moll, eds., Making Sense of Digital Humanities: Transformations and Interventions in Technocultures, 1st ed. (East Lansing, MI: MSU Libraries, 2022).
This collection explores the pathways offered by the intersection of the digital and the humanities to support students and faculty engagement with the complex ways digital humanities enhances our understanding of modern society.
Reframing Digital Humanities: Conversations with Digital Humanists
Growing from Reframing History, a podcast about history theory and practice, Reframing Digital Humanities: Conversations with Digital Humanists, Julian Chambliss, Professor of English at Michigan State University, brings together a diverse group of digital humanities practitioners to reflect on theory and practice. EBOOK ISBN: 978-1-62610-103-6
Digital Literacy and Collaborative Learning Lesson Book
This set of lesson plans results from a two-day planning workshop to develop a cross-institutional framework for promoting broadly collaborative, community-based undergraduate and graduate student research employing the tools and methods of digital humanities. http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/8j3s-nx39
Reviews
“Black Craftspeople Digital Archive,” Reviews in Digital Humanities III, no. 5 (May 23, 2022), https://reviewsindh.pubpub.org/pub/black-craftspeople-digital-archive/release/2.
“Allan W. Austin and Patrick L. Hamilton. All New, All Different? A History of Race and the American Superhero.,” The American Historical Review, Volume 127, Issue 1, March 2022, Pages 513–515, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhac037.
“David F. Walker. The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave’s Journey from Bondage to Freedom.,” The American Historical Review 125, no. 1 (February 1, 2020): 164–66, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhz930.
“The Evolution of the Idea,” Science Fiction Film & Television 12, no. 3 (October 1, 2019): 373–80, https://doi.org/10.3828/sfftv.2019.22.
Americans Against the City: Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century by Steve Conn and Dead End: Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism by Benjamin Ross in Journal of Urban Affairs (May 2017).
“Comics in the Here and Now,” Scandinavian Journal of Comic Art, Spring 2016, http://sjoca.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/SJoCA-2-2-08-Chambliss.pdf.
Americans Against the City: Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century by Steve Conn and Dead End: Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism by Benjamin Ross in Journal of Urban Affairs (May 2017).
Key West on the Edge: Inventing the Conch Republic by Robert Kerstein. in The Journal of Southern History 80, no. 2 (May 2014): 515–16.
The Outlaw in American Visual Culture by Rachel Hall. (University of Virginia Press, 2009) in Studies in American Culture Volume 35, No. 1 (October 2012).
The American Urban Reader: History and Theory, Steven H. Corey and Lisa Krissoff Boehm, eds. (New York: Routledge, 2011) in The History Teacher (February 2012).
“A Graphic Review of Comic Literature,” Specs: A Journal of Arts & Culture (October 2010).
Reforming Suburbia: The Planned Communities of Irvine, Columbia, and the Woodlands by Ann Forsyth. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005) in Journal of Urban Affairs Volume 31, No 4. (November 2009).
The Dallas Myth: The Making and Unmaking of An American City by Harvey J. Graff. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008) in Studies in American Culture (October 2009).
“New in Our Eyes: Race, Class, and Progress in New South Atlanta,” Journal of Urban History, (July 2008).
Public Scholarship
“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Continues the Series’ Quest to Recover and Celebrate Lost Cultures,” The Conversation, accessed November 11, 2022, http://theconversation.com/black-panther-wakanda-forever-continues-the-series-quest-to-recover-and-celebrate-lost-cultures-193508.
“What Is Afrofuturism? An English Professor Explains,” The Conversation, June 17, 2022, http://theconversation.com/what-is-afrofuturism-an-english-professor-explains-183707.
“Making a World: Comics, Meaning, and the Dakotaverse – AAIHS,” Black Perspectives: The Blog of African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) (blog), October 7, 2019, https://www.aaihs.org/making-a-world-comics-meaning-and-the-dakotaverse/.
“Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘Captain America’ Reconsiders The American Dream in a Dangerous New Age,” Frieze.com, August 6, 2018, https://frieze.com/article/ta-nehisi-coatess-captain-america-reconsiders-american-dream-dangerous-new-age.
Julian C. Chambliss et al., “Reflecting on Michael McQuarrie’s ‘Revolt of the Rust Belt,’” USAPP (blog), November 21, 2017, http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2017/11/21/reflecting-on-michael-mcquarries-revolt-of-the-rust-belt/.
“Don’t Call Them Memorials,” Frieze.com, August 23, 2017, https://frieze.com/article/dont-call-them-memorials.
“Drain the Swamp: On Mar-a-Lago, Forum III,” Boston Review, (July 10, 2017), https://bostonreview.net/forum-iii.
“March 4, 1893,” Black Quotidian: Everyday History in African-American Newspapers, March 4, 2016, http://blackquotidian.com/anvc/black-quotidian/march-4-1893.
“The Public’s Eyes: Trevor Paglen’s National Security Agency,” in Art for Rollins: The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Volume II Edited by Abigail Ross Goodman (Cornell Fine Arts Museum, 2015).
“A Look at graphic novels,” Rollins Magazine (Fall 2012).
“Black Panther: Who is the Black Panther,” Critical Survey of Graphic Novels: Heroes and Superheroes edited by bart beaty and stephen weiner (salem press, 2012).
“Remaking Place and Asserting Space: The Land Trust Experience in Winter Park, Florida,” Next City, June 13th, 2011.
“Preparing For a Multicultural Future: The Africa and African-American Studies Program at Rollins College,” USARiseUp.com, January 31, 2011.
Lloyd Benson, Julian Chambliss, Jamie Martinez, Kathryn Tomasek, and Jim Tuten, “Teaching with the History Engine: Experience from the Field,” From Intersection: History and New Media Forum, Perspectives: The Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association (May 2009).