Tré Ventour-Griffiths (me) is a multiply-disabled historian, creative writer, and sociologist with interests in Black histories, race and disability, pop culture and insurgent politics.

My PhD research uses creative storytelling methods to consider a multigenerational story of Caribbean Northants Post-1942. Concurrently, my further work in popular culture looks at representation, identity, and political commentaries in the history, writing, and development of popular entertainment namely comics, film, and TV. At the moment, one of those projects uses Marvel to develop alternative ways of thinking about racism and other forms of social harm. I have written and presented on work including Ready Player One, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, historical period dramas, Marvel’s The X-Men, and Disney Princess films.

As far as writing, I have published with local Northampton journalism outlets since 2017 (i.e The Nenequirer). Further to poetry in print (i.e Penguin Random House) while also having event experience going back over a decade. I have written lots academically, most recently featured in Adapting Bridgerton (2024) – an edited book about the hit Netflix series. I also run Medium pages in both long-form writing and poetry.

External to my PhD and creative writing work, I am working on multi-pronged approaches to bringing period dramas into conversation with subject areas like racims and whiteness. Meanwhile, my other work on popular culture uses multiple superhero properties as central talking points about oppression, privilege, inequality and violence. Central to work developing a conceptual framing that joins popular science fiction with ‘traditional’ academic scholarship. Pop culture is a tool for willing learners to attach their thinking – an ‘entry’ into complex topics.

My educational sessions, consultancy, and wider expertise have been engaged with by both private and public sector organisations including  community groups, schools, heritage organisations, universities, finance companies and more. If you are interested in me visiting your institution or community group (in-person or online), get in touch via the contact form.