Dr. Christopher M. Roman

Dr. Christopher Michael Roman is Professor of English and member of the Graduate Faculty who specializes in Comics Studies and the Graphic Novel, Fan Studies, LGBTQ+ Literature, and Queer Theory. His comics studies work includes his book Queering Wolverine in Comics and Fan Fiction (2023), and he has been published in the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics and IJOCA along with essays in The Routledge Companion to Superhero Studies and The Digital Age of Superheroes: Super Data amongst others. His previous work in medieval studies includes his books Domestic Mysticism in Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich (2005) and Queering Richard Rolle (2017). He is the co-editor of the collection Medieval Futurity (2021). His current comics studies work focuses on feminisms in Spider-Woman, A Philosophy of Compassion in Stan Lee and John Buscema’s Silver Surfer, as well as examining Jeff Lemire’s Sweet Tooth through a critical animal studies lens..