Julia Round
Independent scholar and award-winning writer. Have taught at Bournemouth University, UAL and Bristol University. Mostly researching British comics, and especially the intersections of comics, gothic and children's lit. Ask me about Misty!
- Just a couple of weeks left to send in your chapter proposal for our proposed Companion to International #ComicsStudies, which aims to increase visibility of understudied comics cultures and industries. Very happy to hear from new voices and established ones - full details here lnkd.in/eq_eD52z.
- #AcademicSky Please share this call for #ComicsStudies chapters for our proposed Companion to International Comics Studies as widely as possible. Full details here ow.ly/5vY050XipXT and deadline for proposals is 31 Jan 2026.
- Many congrats to @charlottejohanne.bsky.social for this award winning #ComicsStudies article which we are delighted to have published in Studies in Comics! Free to read at the link below.
- 🎉 Congratulations to Charlotte Johanne Fabricius, winner of this year’s Martin Schüwer Publication Prize for Outstanding Comics Research! Her article 'Drawing in Circles' is FREE to read in Studies in Comics 15.1&2 👉 ow.ly/menj50XjO0U More on the award 👉 ow.ly/1gZY50XjO0V
- Just a gentle reminder that we’re always looking for #ComicsStudies contributions - articles, interviews, short comics and reviews all welcome!
- Studies in Comics General CFP Papers are welcomed for Studies in Comics, a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary academic journal that aims to describe the nature of comics, to identify the medium as a distinct art form and to address its formal properties. More 👉ow.ly/iUA550X2EZo Julia Round
- Very happy to be in Brussels for #IGNCCIBDS25 #ComicsStudies conference - looking forward to a fabulous week of talks this week!
- This Friday 20 June I’ll be running a FREE workshop on using dreams to kickstart your creative writing with Dr Rebecca Mills at Bournemouth Central Library - a few tickets still left at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dreamingwr..., come and join us!
- Reposted by Julia RoundI've written an article on 200 Years of British Comics for the uniofbrighton.bsky.social Comics Research blog... blogs.brighton.ac.uk/comics/2025/... with thanks to @hypnojoo.bsky.social and @annalouwalker.bsky.social for for copy editing and peer review
- Time to shamelessly promote this new #comicsstudies collection ‘Horror and Comics’ - edited by me, @barbarachamberlin.bsky.social and @komkunyosying - and packed with #horror themed goodness and looking at a global selection of comics! Due to be published by university of wales press next month.
- Very excited to be heading to University of Ulster next week to give the keynote talk at the On The Margins #comicsstudies conference! I’m speaking about ‘Playing the Game’ and sports stories in British girls’ comics - so many fab stories to unveil!! www.ulster.ac.uk/faculties/ar...
- Reposted by Julia Roundin a world of reboots and remakes and sanitised slush you gotta fight back by writing something really really fucking Weird
- Reposted by Julia RoundWe’re currently running a competition where the winner will get £50 store credit to spend at Gosh! To enter, simply follow us on Bluesky (if you're seeing this, then there's a good chance you already do)! We’ll be drawing the winner next week on Friday 14th March, so make sure to follow us by then.
- Reposted by Julia RoundProud to have a new article in The @uk.theconversation.com, co-written with @bournemouthuni.bsky.social’s Julia @hypnojoo.bsky.social Round, about @veradrew22.bsky.social’s groundbreaking LGBTQI+ superhero film The People’s Joker theconversation.com/the-peoples-...
