Several members of the Comics Studies Creative Research Hub are based at the University of Dundee, including the Directorate, although there are many other members from around the world.

Professor Christopher Murray
Director

Christopher Murray  is Chair of Comics Studies and English in the Division of Humanities in the School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law at the University of Dundee. He is Director of the Comics Studies Creative Research Hub. He teaches several courses on comics and graphic novels as well as courses on literature, science fiction, and film studies. He supervises several PhD students undertaking research on comics. His research focuses on British and American Comics. He has published on various aspects of comics, including: the British superhero; educational and public information comics; adaptations from literature to comics; comics and other media, especially film and video games; American superhero comics, popular culture and propaganda during World War Two; comics writers such as Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, and Grant Morrison; genre, with and emphasis on superhero, science fiction, and horror comics; British comics, including DC Thomson, and various small press publishers

Murray co-edits Studies in Comics, a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Intellect, and is co-organiser of the International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference. He has authored several comics for research projects and public engagement purposes, collaborating with a number of comics artists. He is Secretary of the Scottish Word and Image Group, and editor of UniVerse Publications.

Dr Damon Herd

Damon Herd is lecturer in Communication Design at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design. His research area is life narratives told in the comics medium, with a particular interest in British comics, and the games authors play with truth. He has been published in Studies in Comics, and on The Comics Grid, and is a regular contributor to comics blog Graphixia. He produces his own comics including The Adventures of Ticking Boy, and is also the organiser of DeeCAP​, a comics performance event based in Dundee.​

Mayra Crowe
International Projects Development Coordinator

Mayra Crowe is a Senior Lecturer in Spanish in the Division of Education and Society in the School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law at the University of Dundee. She is the International Projects Development Coordinator for the Comics Studies Creative Research Hub. She teaches on the Applied Languages programme and the Graduate Diploma in Spanish by Distance Learning (for which she is the Programme Leader) as well as other modules within the School. Her research and scholarship focuses on bereavement, translation issues and Human Rights for Older Persons, particularly through public information comics.

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Professor Divya Jindal-Snape
Educationist in Residence

Divya Jindal-Snape is Chair of Education, Inclusion and Life Transitions in the Division of Education and Society in the School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law at the University of Dundee. She is Director of the Transformative Change: Educational and Life Transitions (TCELT) Research Centre. She does research on life transitions, including the impact of life limiting conditions and bereavement.

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Dr Brian Hoyle

Brian Hoyle is a lecturer in Film Studies and English Literature at the University of Dundee in the Division of Humanities, School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law. He has taught and published on comics and film. His research interests include adaptation, film screenplays, and film-makers such as John Boorman, Ken Russell, John Huston, and Fred Zinneman. He has written on The Road to Perdition in The International Journal of Comic Art.

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Matthew Jarron
Curator

Matthew Jarron is Curator of the University of Dundee’s Museum Collections, which include fine art, science, natural history and medical history as well as the collection of original comics artwork acquired by CSCRH. Born and schooled in Edinburgh, Matthew spent a substantial part of his formative years purchasing comics from the old Science Fiction Bookshop, before studying at the Universities of York and St Andrews. He joined the University of Dundee in 2001 and has since curated well over 100 exhibitions including several collaborations with CSCRH. He is the author or editor of several publications including David Foggie: the Painters’ Painter (2004), The Artist & the Thinker: John Duncan & Patrick Geddes in Dundee (2004), D’Arcy Thompson and his Zoology Museum in Dundee (2010, co-authored with Cathy Caudwell) and A Glimpse of a Great Vision: the D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum Art Fund Collection (2014). He has also edited or co-edited issues of the Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History, Museum Management & Curatorship and Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. A former Chair of the Scottish Society for Art History, Matthew is currently Chair of the Tayside Museums Forum, Secretary of the Abertay Historical Society and web editor of University Museums in Scotland.

Professor Thom Giddens

Thomas Giddens is Chair of Jurisprudence in Dundee Law School at the University of Dundee. His research focuses on critical, comics, and cultural legal studies, with particular interests in aesthetics, epistemology, visuality, and form. He founded the Graphic Justice Research Alliance and is author of On Comics and Legal Aesthetics: Multimodality and the Haunted Mask of Knowing (Routledge 2018). He edited the volumes Critical Directions in Comics Studies (University Press of Mississippi 2020) and Graphic Justice: Intersections of Comics and Law (Routledge 2015), and coedited Law and Justice in Japanese Popular Culture: From Crime Fighting Robots to Duelling Pocket Monsters (Routledge 2018). He is also editor of the ongoing Graphic Justice Special Collection at The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship.

Associated Comics Creators

Several professional comics creators are associated with the Comics Studies Creative Research Hub, giving talks and workshops as part of the Centre’s activities and in support of the Comics Studies courses at the University of Dundee. and collaborating on research projects. They include Dan McDaid, Zu Dominiak, Becca Emslie, Norrie Millar, Monty Nero, Tanya Roberts, Hannah Berry, Colin MacNeil, David Bishop, Robbie Morrison, Monty Nero, and Rossi Gifford.