English offers research degrees leading to the award of an MPhil/PhD. In addition to research interests in 20th- and 21st-Century literature, culture and film, students can undertake research in the area of comic studies with Dr Christopher Murray as supervisor.
Dr Christopher Murray lectures in English and Film Studies at the University of Dundee. He researches on comics, in particular British comics writers such as Alan Moore, Grant Morrison and Neil Gaiman. His book on superheroes and propaganda published by Hampton Press, and he is the author of numerous chapters in books such as Comics And Culture (Museum of Tusculaneum/University of Copenhagen Press, 2000), and Contemporary American Comics in Context (Mississippi University Press, 2010), entries on comics in The Encyclopaedia Britannica, The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Cultural Theory, and The Greenwood Encyclopaedia of Comics and Graphic Novels, and articles in The Scottish Society of Art History Journal (2006), as well as several papers in The International Journal of Comic Art. He is editor, along with Dr Julia Round, of the journal Studies in Comics, published by Intellect. See Dr Murray's staff profile for full details.
Further information about research degrees, including how to apply, is available on our postgraduate pages.
To tie into the growing research interest in Comics Studies at the University we have been steadily building up a collection of original artworks by comics artists and cartoonists from the late 19th century up to today. Further information about the Comics Art Collection is available on the Museum Services website.
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