Intellect

Chris Murray's research interests are in comics, film and popular culture, specifically the theorization of how popular visual culture relates to other discourses (literature, art, and politics). Dr Murray has published on various aspects of comics, including: the relationship between American superhero comics, popular culture and propaganda during World War Two; the comics of Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and Grant Morrison; Independent/small press comics (mini-comics) and British comics, specifically DC Thomson.
Chris is editor (along with Dr Julia Round) of the Intellect comics journal, Studies in Comics. He is Secretary of the Scottish Word and Image Group, which researches aspects of the relationship between verbal and visual representation.