Professor Neal Curtis is a comics scholar and critical theorist with wide-ranging interests. Outside of comics these include political theory, media theory and the philosophy of technology.

He has written five books: Against Autonomy, published by Ashage in 2001; War and Social Theory, published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2006; Idiotism: Capitalism and the Privatization of Life, published by Pluto Press in 2013; and Sovereignty and Superheroes, published by Manchester University Press in 2016; Hate in Precarious Times , published by I.B. Tauris in 2021. He also edited The Pictorial Turn, published by Routledge in 2010. He is currently working on a new book project entitled Comics and Communication to be published by the University Press of Mississippi in 2025. He also ran a project with the Brain Research Centre and the charity Brain Tumour Support (funded by the Health Research Council) creating 8 comics about different aspects of brain tumour diagnosis and treatment.

Distinctions/Honours:
2011, AHRC Fellowship for my project of sovereingty and superheroes

Qualifications:
BA (hons) Cultural Studies; MA Critical Theory; PhD

Areas of Expertise:
-Comics
-Graphic Science/Graphic Medicine
-Critical Theory
-Political theory
-Ubiquitous media
-Media theory
-Philosophy of technology