DrTof Eklund

Tof Eklund (they/them) is a Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities. They earned their Ph.D. in English at the University of Florida with a thesis on time and narrative in etching and printmaking, comic books, and video games. A queer parent, philosophical anarchist, video game and tabletop RPG designer, zine comics creator, speculative fiction writer, and former wine steward, they are "interested in everything," with the possible exception of team sports.

Tof's research interests lie at the intersection of the theoretical, the subcultural, the digital, and the creative, somewhere in the realm of "un-popular media:" marginal culture, rather than high, low, or middle-brow. In 2025, their "A crone of judgment: Queen Meve in Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales" considered the maiden-mother-crone tryptych and older women's power in Geralt of Riva's world, and their collaboration with Scott Pilkington, "Can universities be considered Queer institutions?" considered what makes a "queer space" and the fundamental tension between Universities' desire to be seen as pluralistic, inclusive institutions and the needs of queer communities. Their book Queer Comics, co-authored with Sam Orchard, is due out this year.

Their teaching and research philosophy embraces uncertainty, intersectionality, care ethics, and anarchy of method. This has contributed to the breadth of postgraduate projects they have supervised, including Masters theses on the contextual specificity of the concept of "culture," developing materials and designs for nonbinary fashion, the embodiment of mehr (motherly love) in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, and the concept and role of the child and childhood in horror. PhDs they have supervised to completion include an application of videogame storytelling techniques to compassion training for nursing, a literary study of the societal issues identity and conflict in Ben Arronovitch's River of London Series, and a interactive retelling of the golden calf story from Exodus as an exploration of mythmaking and ritual design.

Tof is available for interviews and to supervise queer, strange, geeky, and/or hard to describe PhD projects.