Dr Nick Dodds, PhD

Biography

Dr Nick Dodds is an artist, researcher, and senior lecturer in visual culture. He is responsible for overseeing and teaching contextual studies on BA Graphic Design and BA Illustration programmes and is the programme leader for MA Creative Practice. Nick has a longstanding passion for narrative theory and visual storytelling which feeds directly into his own artwork and academic output. He has worked collaboratively on comic-strip themed projects with arts organisations across Cumbria, including the Lakes International Comic Art Festival (Kendal) and Tullie House Museum (Carlisle). Furthermore, as a musician with the low-fi band Pecker, Nick has co-written and performed original live soundtracks to a diverse range of films including The Grandmother (Lynch 1970) and Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov 1929) at venues including Whitehaven Civic Centre and Theatre Clwyd, North Wales. Pecker have recently featured on BBC Introducing and took part in the International Pop Overthrow in Liverpool (2019, 2022). Nick’s recent PhD project with Northumbria University explored the 'graphic memoir/adaptation', a practice-led approach that intertwined personal, social, and political history. Examples of Nick's research output can be found on Insight.

Qualifications and memberships

Doctor of Philosophy English and Creative Writing (Northumbria University)

MA Art History (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Post Graduate Certificate in Education (Cambridge University)

BA Hons Graphic Design (Middlesex Polytechnic)

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Academic and research interests

adaptation studies / sequential illustration / visual literacy / cultural theory & pop culture

Publications

Dodds, Nick (2023). From Prose to Panel: negotiating visual modality and authenticity in the comic-book adaptation of a literary memoir. Polysèmes, 29. A digital copy of the article can be found here.

Dodds, Nick (2019). The Practice of Authentication: Adapting Pilgrimage from Nenthead into a Graphic Memoir. The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, 9 (1:14). A digital copy of the article can be found here.

Dodds, Nick (2013). Spatial poetics: control of time and space in graphic narratives. Association of Illustrators - Varoom (2). pp. 41-50. A digital copy of the journal can be found here.

 

Recent external roles

External Examiner at Kingston University (London) for BA Graphic Design and BA Illustration/Animation (Critical & Historical Studies at Level 5 and Level 6).

External academic panel member at validation for BA Hons Comics, Graphic Novels and Sequential Art programme at Teesside University.

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