Daniel Stein is Professor of North American Literature and Culture at the University of Siegen, Germany. He holds a doctorate in American Studies from the University of Göttingen and was a member of the Culture Department at the John-F.-Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University Berlin from 2013 to 2014. Since 2010, he has also been a member of Research Unit "Popular Seriality - Aesthetics and Practice", funded by the German Research Foundation. Publications include Music Is My Life: Louis Armstrong, Autobiography, and American Jazz (2012) and the co-edited volumes Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives: Comics at the Crossroads and From Comic Books to Graphic Novels: Contributions to the Theory and History of Graphic Narrative (both 2013).