Mahbub ul Haq Research Centre at LUMS

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.