Popular Writing

In addition to academic writing, I write about conflict, group relations, and justice in popular culture. My essays appear in the books below (click on essay title to download).

For many year I also wrote regularly about race and justice issues for various media outlets. Most of this writing is posted to my Psychology Today blog: Between the Lines. Although new contributions are now much less frequent, you can still add my articles to your RSS (Really Simple Syndication) reader by pasting the following URL into the reader: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/between-the-lines/feed .

Lyubansky, M. & Nicholson, E. (2021). The Black Panther is Black. In S. C. Howard (Ed.). Why Wakanda Matters: What Black Panther Reveals About Psychology, Identity, and Communication. Dallas, TX: BenBella Books.

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Lyubansky, M. (2013). Seven Roads to Justice for Superheroes and Humans. In R. Rosenberg (Ed.). Our Superheroes, Ourselves. New York: Oxford University Press.

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Lyubansky, M. & Shpungin, E. (2011). The Cost of Justice. In R. Rosenberg and S. O'Neill (Eds.) The Psychology of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Dallas, TX: Ben Bella Books.

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Lyubansky, M. & Shpungin, E. (2011). The Gestalt of Twilight. In E.D. Klonsky and A. Black (Eds.) The Psychology of Twilight. Dallas, TX: Ben Bella Books.

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Lyubansky, M. (2010). Are the Fangs Real? Vampires as Racial Metaphor. In Laurell K. Hamilton (Ed.) Ardeur: 14 Writers on the Anita Blake, vampire hunter series. Dallas, TX: Ben Bella Books.

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Lyubansky, M. (2010). "A Black Boy Even Taller Than Ron": Racial Dynamics in Harry Potter. In S. Goetz (Ed.). Terminus: Collected papers on Harry Potter, 7-11 Aug. 2008. Sedalia, CO: Narrate Conference Inc.

Lyubansky, M. (2010). Ordinary Wizards: The Psychology of Evil In the Harry Potter Universe. In S. Goetz (Ed.). Terminus: Collected papers on Harry Potter, 7-11 Aug. 2008. Sedalia, CO: Narrate Conferences, Inc.

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Lyubansky, M. (2008). How Group Prejudice Forms and Other Race-Related Lessons From the Xavier Institute. In R. Rosenberg (Ed.). The psychology of superheroes: An unauthorized exploration. Dallas, TX: Ben Bella Books.

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Lyubansky, M. & Shpungin, E. (2007). Playing House. In L. Wilson (Ed.). House unauthorized: Vasculitis, clinic duty, and bad bedside. Dallas, TX: Ben Bella Books.

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Lyubansky, M. (2007). Buffy’s Search for Meaning. In J. Davidson (Ed.). The psychology of Joss Whedon: An unauthorized exploration. Dallas, TX: Ben Bella Books.

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Lyubansky, M. (2007). A Few Laps Around the Non-Tenure Track. In R. Eidelson, J. Laske, & L. Cherfas (Eds.). Peacemaker 101: Careers confronting conflict. Philadelphia, PA: Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict.

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Lyubansky, M. (2007). Harry Potter and the word that shall not be named. In N. Mulholland (Ed.). The psychology of Harry Potter: An unauthorized examination of the boy who lived. Dallas, TX: Ben Bella Books.

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