Dr. Tom Sewel obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Glasgow and his PhD from the University of Calgary. His PhD thesis, Spirits in the Gutters: The British Invasion and the Haunting of the Twentieth Century analyses the impact and influence on US comics of the so-called British Invasion writers of the 1980s and 1990s, such as Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Neil Gaiman, and Warren Ellis.
His key research interests are: Comics and graphic narrative, literary theory, speculative fiction, materiality, and the literary baroque.
Courses Taught:
- ENGL 3510 - Literary Theory
- ENGL 1000 - Introduction to Literature in English
- ENGL 2402 - Comics Scholarship and Graphic Narrative
- ENGL 3852 - Strange Horizons: Speculative Fictions and Other Worlds
Positions Held:
- Secretary for the International Comparative Literature Association's Standing Research Committee on Comics Studies and Graphic Narrative.
- SPROJ coordinator, English stream.
