Julia Round

Julia Round is a writer and scholar who researches the intersections of Gothic, comics, and children’s literature. Her books include Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels (McFarland, 2014), the award-winning Gothic for Girls (UP Mississippi, 2019), and the co-authored Comics and Graphic Novels (Bloomsbury, 2022). She has also co-edited books such as Real Lives, Celebrity Stories (Bloomsbury, 2014), the Companion to Literary Media (Routledge, 2023) and Multimodal Comics (Intellect, 2024), and written over fifty peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters. She is Associate Professor of English and Comics Studies at Bournemouth University, UK, one of the founding editors of Studies in Comics journal (Intellect Books) and the Encapsulations book series (University of Nebraska Press), and co-organiser of the International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference (www.IGNCC.com). She shares her work at www.juliaround.com.