Julia Round

Julia Round (MA, Ph.D.) is an award-winning writer and independent scholar whose research focuses on the intersections of gothic, comics and children’s literature. Her books include Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels (McFarland, 2014), othic for Girls (University Press of Mississippi, 2019) and the co-authored Comics and Graphic Novels (Bloomsbury, 2022). She has also co-edited books such as Horror and Comics (University of Wales Press, 2025), Multimodal Comics (Intellect, 2024) and Companion to Literary Media (Routledge, 2023) and written over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. She is a visiting fellow at Bournemouth University, United Kingdom, where she was previously associate professor of English and comics studies and head of the Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre. She is one of the founding editors of Studies in Comics (Intellect) and the Encapsulations book series (University Press of Nebraska) and a co-organizer of the International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference (https://www.igncc.com. Accessed 1 May 2026). She shares her work at https://www.juliaround.com.