Sleeper Agent in Post-9/11 Media

Vanessa Ossa is Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Applied Science in Cologne, Germany. She is a former member of the Collaborative Research Center 923 “Threatened Order—Societies under Stress,” in Tübingen and co-editor of, “Threat Communication and the US Order after 9/11: Medial Reflections.” Her research focuses on narrative representations of post-9/11 terrorism and transmedial narratology, with a particular interest in films, fictional television, comic books, video games, and related participatory practices.

• 1.  Introduction.- 2. Fiction, 9/11, and the Sleeper Agent.- 3. The Sleeper in Hollywood Cinema after 9/11.- 4. The Sleeper in US TV Series after 9/11​.- 5. The Sleeper in Comic Books after 9/11.- 6. Conclusion.