University of Exeter in Cornwall

Graduate Student, English

Other Affiliations: University College Falmouth, English
University College Falmouth, Media and Performance

Thesis Title: Excavations: Unearthing Spatial Tropes in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry

About

I am a doctoral candidate in English at University of Exeter, UK. My thesis examines excavatory tropes in the poetry of Geoffrey Hill, Ciaran Carson, Geraldine Monk, Peter Riley, Alice Oswald.

Other Research Interests:
Archives in scholarly and creative practice; digital poetics; temporality and spatiality in gaming (digital); politics and philosophies of of time.

Education/Awards:
- 2009 European Social Fund PhD Studentship (UoE)
- 2008 MA in English, University of Exeter (distinction and Dean's Commendation)
- 2008 Full-Fee Masters Scholarship (UoE)
- 2006 BA (Hons) English with Media Studies, University College Falmouth (1st)

Teaching: (2009-ongoing)
University College Falmouth, BA (Hons) English with Media and BA (Hons) English with Creative Writing
- Level 1 core module, The Knowing Self: literature and Culture (1540-1688) (lectures and seminar tutor)
- Level 2 option module, Representing Utopia (convenor)
- Level 2 option module, New Media Cultures (convenor)
- Level 3 core module, Millennium: Literature and Culture (1968-)(lectures and seminar tutor)
- Level 3 option module, Games Cultures (convenor)
- Level 3 option module, Conflict and Catastrophe in Literature and Film (convenor)

University of Exeter, BA Hons English
- Level 2 core module Renaissance, Reformation and Rebellion (seminar tutor)
- Level 3 core module Literature and Environment (seminar tutor)

Other stuff:
I currently organise a staff & PGR research forum at the School of Media and Performance, University College Falmouth. http://air.falmouth.ac.uk/research-projects/research-bites

January 2011: Jointly awarded a Learning and Teaching Enhancement Grant with Dr. Kym Martindale at UCF. We investigated the value of using archives to enhance teaching and learning in the field of Creative Writing. The outputs of the project include conference papers, articles and a blog.

2010: Involved in an AHRC funded project in the department of Geography at University of Exeter (UoE) entitled, 'From Climate to Landscape: Imagining the Future' with Professor Catherine Brace (UoE), Dr Hilary Geoghegan (UoE) and Dr Kym Martindale (University College Falmouth). See here for a case study: http://www.english.heacademy.ac.uk/explore/publications/casestudies/sustain/climate.php

Current member of the Archives and Special Collections board (combined service for University College Falmouth and University of Exeter in Cornwall)

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