Julian Ferraro is a Lecturer in English Literature in the Department of English. Current projects include work on contemporary pictorial narrative and the intersection between literature, architecture, and nostalgia – in particular the comics of the Canadian writers and artists Seth and Dean Motter. He is collaborating with Liverpool University’s Victoria Gallery and Museum on a retrospective exhibition covering the career of Liverpool-born artist John Higgins – perhaps best known as the colourist of the ground-breaking comic Watchmen. He has reviewed new and international writing for the TLS and Sunday Telegraph and supervises doctoral projects on the construction of city-space in the work of contemporary British and American writers, cartoonists, and film-makers, including Iain Sinclair, Will Self, Andrew Kötting, Lee Rourke, Geoff Nicholson, Tom McCarthy, John Lanchester, Teju Cole, Michael Sorkin, Colson Whitehead, and Ben Katchor.
