Faculty Member, Media School
Lecturer in Communication
Thesis Title: From comic book to graphic novel: writing, reading, semiotics
David Punter
About
Lecturer in Communication (Literature and Linguistics) within the Media School. My research interests include: comics and graphic novels, literary adaptation, the gothic and the fantastic.
Further details at www.juliaround.com.
Published work:
‘Mutilation and monsters: transcending the human in Garth Ennis/Steve Dillon’s Preacher’ in The Human Body in Contemporary Literatures in English: Cultural and Political Implications, ed. Sabine Coelsch-Foisner and Marta Fernández Morales (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2009), pp109-128. Sole author. Peer reviewed.
‘Subverting Shakespeare? The Sandman #19’ in Sub/versions: Cultural Status, Genre and Critique, ed. Pauline MacPherson et al (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008), pp18-33. Sole author. Peer reviewed.
‘London’s calling: alternate worlds and the city as superhero in contemporary British-American comics’, International Journal of Comic Art (ISBN 1531-6793), Vol 10, No 1, Spring 2008, pp24-31. Published as part of ‘Comics as Art, Entertainment and Design’ conference proceedings. Sole author. Peer reviewed.
‘Visual perspective and narrative voice in comics: redefining literary terminology’, International Journal of Comic Art (ISBN 1531-6793), Vol 9, No 2, Fall 2007, pp316-329. Sole author. Peer reviewed.
‘Fragmented identity: the superhero condition’, International Journal of Comic Art (ISBN 1531-6793), Vol 7, No 2, Fall/Winter 2005, pp358-369. Sole author. Peer reviewed.
Forthcoming publications:
‘Impersonating Hollywood: The conflicting identity discourses of Charlie Murphy’s True Hollywood Stories’
Publication pending in forthcoming collection Meaning, Identity, and the Comedy of Dave Chappelle, ed. K. A. Wisniewski, to be published by McFarland & Co. Sole author. Peer reviewed.
‘Chapter One: “Is this a book?” DC Vertigo and the redefinition of comics in the 1990s’ – Publication pending in forthcoming collection Contemporary American Comics: Creators and their Contexts, ed. Paul Williams and James Lyons, to be published by University of Mississippi Press. Sole author. Peer reviewed.
‘“Be vewy vewy quiet. We’re hunting Wippers.” A Barthesian analysis of the construction of fact and fiction in Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s From Hell’
Publication pending in forthcoming collection Out of the Gutter, ed. Dan Hassler-Forest and Joyce Goggin, to be published by McFarland & Co. Sole author. Peer reviewed.
‘Transforming Shakespeare? Neil Gaiman and The Sandman’
Publication pending in forthcoming collection Beyond Adaptation: Classic and Popular Texts Transformed, ed. Phyllis Frus and Christy A. Williams, to be published by McFarland & Co. Sole author. Peer reviewed.
‘Fantastic alterities and The Sandman’
Article accepted for publication in forthcoming collection Comics, Graphic Narrative, and Sequential Art, ed. Jake Jakaitis and James F. Wurtz. Sole author. Peer reviewed.
‘‘Can I call you “Mommy”?’ Myths of the female and superheroic in Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean’s Black Orchid’
Article accepted for publication by the Scottish Word and Image Group. Sole author. Peer reviewed.
‘Naturalising the fantastic: the convergence of comics and science fiction in Heroes’
Article commissioned for publication in forthcoming collection Contemporary Television and Science Fiction, ed. David Simmons, to be published by Palgrave Macmillan. Joint authored with Dave Hipple. Peer reviewed.
‘‘The Apocalypse of Adolescence’: The use of genre conventions in Mark Millar/Peter Gross’s Chosen’
Article commissioned for publication in forthcoming collection Graven Images, ed. A. David Lewis and Christine Hoff Kraemer, to be published by Continuum. Sole author. Peer reviewed.
‘Apocatastasis: Redefining the Apocalypse in Neil Gaiman/Dave McKean's Signal to Noise’
Article commissioned for publication in forthcoming collection Fear and Endings, ed. Susan Cahill and John O’Neill, publisher tbc. Sole author. Peer reviewed.
‘Cryptomimetic tropes in Yoshitomo Nakura’s Batman: Death Mask’
Article commissioned for publication in forthcoming edition of Foundation Science Fiction Journal. Sole author. Peer reviewed.
‘Contrariwise! Breaking rules in Bryan Talbot’s Alice in Sunderland’
Article commissioned for publication in forthcoming edition of Critical Engagements: A Journal of Criticism and Theory. Sole author. Peer reviewed.
Contributor to the Greenwood Encyclopedia of Comics and Graphic Novels, ed. M. Keith Booker, to be published by Greenwood Press.
Contributor to the Blackwell Encyclopaedia of the Gothic, ed. David Punter, to be published by Blackwells.
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