Christopher “Mav” Maverick is a Teaching Assistant Professor of Digital Narrative and Interactive Design at the University of Pittsburgh. He holds a Ph.D. in English from Duquesne University and a Bachelors degree in Creative Writing and Literary and Cultural Studies and a Masters degree in Literary and Cultural Studies, both from Carnegie Mellon University. His field is 20th Century American Literature. His primary research interests include issues of race, class, gender and sexuality in 20th and 21st century American popular culture, especially television, movies, professional wrestling and comic books and he is the 2018 recipient of the Lent Award for Excellence in Graduate Studies in Comics. Mav is the area chair for Eros and Pornography (basically all things sexy) for the Popular Culture Association(PCA). As an avid believer in active participant observation, he has wrote the web comic Cosmic Hellcats from 2008 to 2018, founded an internet cult devoted to the selfie in 2006, has been an avid blogger and media critic since 2002, and from 2003 until 2010 he competed as a professional wrestler… no really!