Dr Harriet EH Earle FHEA, PhD
Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing
Summary
I joined the Department of Humanities as a Lecturer in English and Creative Writing in 2017. I teach on the BA Creative Writing and BA English programmes. My research focuses on representations of conflict and trauma in visual culture, especially comics. I investigate the ways in which conflict and violence can be represented on the page and how this helps us to understand PTSD and trauma. I am the author of three books and have edited several more.
About
I am a comics and pop culture scholar, with a special interest in representations of trauma, conflict, and violence. I have published a range of papers and books on the topic, including Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War (2017), Comics: An Introduction (2021), and Silence in the Quagmire: The Vietnam War in US Comics (2025). I am the editor of Global Perspectives in Comics Studies, which publishes a broad sweep of books on comics as an international form. Since 2020, I have worked with the Centre for War, Atrocity, and Genocide at Nipissing University in Canada, where I am a research fellow.
Although I am primarily a theoretician, I teach on the Creative Writing BA and very much enjoy bringing my research into the practical arena. I’m interested in socially-engaged writing and the ways in which we can use our creative outputs as tools for social engagement and social change, a theme that comes through in all my teaching.
Specialist areas of interest
Writing with images
Socially-engaged writing
Comics studies
Representations of traumatic experience and violence
Science Fiction
Conflict and war narratives
Teaching
Subject area
English
Courses taught:
- BA Creative Writing
- BA English
Modules taught:
- Writing Live (Level 4)
- Creative Non-Fiction (Level 5)
- Counterculture and Creativity (Level 6)
- The Contemporary Writer (MA)
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My current research brings fibre arts and needlework into conversation with comics. What connections can we make between these two artistic forms and to what end? If we broaden our working definitions of comics to include narrative needlework, how does our understanding of both fields change - who is included and what is gained? I consider the politics and poetics of the needle as a tool for creating narratives that give voice and power to previously silen[ced/t] communities.
Publications
Journal articles
Earle, H. (2025). . Amerikastudien/ American Studies, 70 (1), 63-78.
Earle, H. (2024). . Americana: The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture, 22 (2).
Earle, H. (2021). . Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics.
Earle, H. (2020). . The Comics Grid : Journal of Comics Scholarship, 10 (1), 13.
Earle, H., & Clark, J. (2019). . European journal of American culture, 38 (1), 5-13.
Earle, H. (2018). . Studies in Comics, 9 (1), 87-105.
Earle, H. (2018). . European Journal of American Culture, 37 (2), 159-172.
Earle, H. (2017). . ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 30 (3), 198-202.
Earle, H. (2017). . The Journal of Popular Culture, 50 (2), 259-275.
Knowles, S., Peacock, J., & Earle, H. (2016). . Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 52 (4), 378-384.
Earle, H. (2016). . Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 52 (4), 385-398.
Earle, H. (2016). . Film International, 14 (1), 35-43.
Earle, H.E.H. (2014). My Friend Dahmer : the comic as Bildungsroman. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 5 (4), 429-440.
Book chapters
Earle, H. (2023). 鈥楢rt Imitating Life: Affect and the Aesthetic of Trauma in Holocaust Comics and Cinema鈥. In Artful Breakdowns: The Comics of Art Spiegelman. Univ. Press of Mississippi
Earle, H.E.H., & Lund, M. (2023). Introduction. In Identity and History in Non-Anglophone Comics. (pp. 1-16). Routledge India:
Earle, H.E.H. (2022). Series editor's preface. (pp. xvi).
Earle, H. (2021). 30 Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis. In Handbook of Comics and Graphic Narratives. (pp. 589-600). De Gruyter:
Earle, H. (2019). Persepolis. In Handbook of Comics and Graphic Narratives. De Gruyter
Earle, H. (2019). Comics and Graphic Novels. In The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction. Routledge
Earle, H. (2018). 鈥淭he sky is darkened by gods鈥濃: Spirituality, Strength and Violence in Gene Luen Yang鈥檚 Boxers and Saints. In Cultures of War in Graphic Novels Violence, Trauma, and Memory. Rutgers University Press
Books
Earle, H.E.H. (2025). Silence in the Quagmire The Vietnam War in U. S. Comics.
Earle, H.E.H. (2023). Aren't You Bojack Horseman? Critical Essays on the Netflix Series. McFarland.
Earle, H. (2020). . Routledge.
Earle, H. (Ed.). (2019). . McFarland.
Earle, H. (Ed.). (2019). . McFarland.
Earle, H. (2017). . Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi.
Earle, H.E.H., & Lund, M. (n.d.). Identity and History in Non-Anglophone Comics. Routledge India.
Other activities
Editorial Board - The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics
Editor - Global Perspectives in Comics Studies
Postgraduate supervision
I am currently supervising doctoral students in comics, video games, and creative non-fiction.