Tré Ventour

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Dr Tré Ventour-Griffiths (me) is a sociologist-historian, creative writer, and UK Black history consultant whose work addresses racism and regional travel, Caribbean diasporas and UK regional archives, popular culture and nostalgia, hauntings and violence, creative writing and historical documentation, and spoken word and memoir.

His most recent writing includes the upcoming working paper ‘Whiteness Quantomania: Microaggressions, Subatomic Racism, and the Multiverse of White Supremacy’ (University of Bath, 2026) and the book chapter ‘My Name is Covered in Blood’ featured in the upcoming Troubling the Island Story: The Impact and Legacy of Catherine Hall’s Historical Work in and beyond Britain (October, 2026). My work in pop culture looks at the way cultural texts like films, TV, and comics can speak to our world and teach us things. I have written and presented on texts like Marvel films, Star Trek, horror, Disney, and period dramas, from Jane Austen to Call the Midwife. As a travelling scholar-creative, I write on Substack under The Avid Pedestrian.

My PhD research, Northamptonshire’s Caribbean: A Ghost Story, Post-1940, uses UK Black horror as a method for telling a history of Caribbean Northants in decay due to the early deaths of Caribbean elders. As far as writing, I have published with Northampton (i.e The Nenequirer) and wider national publications (i.e Penguin Random House) in, essays, poetry, journalism and academic writing. Most recently, I had a chapter featured in Adapting Bridgerton (2024) – an edited book about the hit Netflix series.

With my creative-scholarly work covering varied areas like sociology, criminology, film, media, literature, history, museums, archives and more, my approach to issues makes me unique when working with organisations. This is why organisations and individuals continue to work with me, from schools to community groups.

My writing, research, educational talks, workshops, 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 you (in-person or online), get in touch via the contact form.

 

Photo Credit: Chiedza Ikpeh (@theblackresearcher, Instagram)

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Writes and speaks on subjects that can be broadly contained within UK Black regional history and storytelling, UK-US film and TV shows, disability, memory, archives, and creative writing.

Presently, one strand of work looks at how the narratives found in popular culture may be an entry for bringing discussions about inequalities to different audiences.

For example, in the last couple of years I have considered how this works in texts such as X-Men and its metaphors of difference, exclusion, and solidarity in the face of crisis. I’m currenly developing work about X-Men’s metaphors of debility and disablement in a hostile world. Here, I link thought spaces including Sociology, Comics Studies, Fandom Studies, and History offering a dynamic debate of the world through texts many of us may be familiar with.

Please get in touch via the contact form.

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