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English and Creative Writing
Your community, your University
Sunday Times and Times University Guide 2014
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The department
The English and CreativeWriting Department offers fourdegree programmes, enablingyou to work to your strengthsand develop your interests.
We are very proud of the work we do inEnglish Literature, Language, Drama andCreative Writing and our uniqueprogrammes of study.
We specialise in helping you to discover thefull range of your talents as a writer, thinkerand communicator. To facilitate this, weprovide a high level of individual support foreach and every student. To add to yourexperience, you can opt to spend part ofyour study time abroad at one of our partneruniversities.
Our team of academic staff is made up ofactive scholars and published writers as wellas experienced and professional teachers.Their research engages with the latestdevelopments in literary history, linguistics,theory, drama and theatre history, and in allkey genres of creative writing.
We’ve been running creative writing modulesat the BA level for almost thirty years andhave, in the process, established a strongreputation in the area as well as a genuinecommunity of writers.
You’ll benefit from a thriving academic cultureat the University of Chichester, whichincludes: our unique Sussex Centre forFolklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy; our TheoryResearch Group, an interdisciplinary groupdevoted to presenting work in contemporarytheory; the South Coast Eighteenth Centuryand Romantic Research Group (SCERRG), inpartnership with other southern universities;and Thresholds, our international onlineforum for short story writers.
All of these host regular programmes ofconferences, guest speakers and researchseminars to enhance your study environment.For a full list of events and recent staffpublications, please visit us online at:www.chi.ac.uk/english. I hope you will enjoyreading about our teaching and research.
Professor Simon BarkerHead of Department
What makes us different?
• Our degree programmes offer a uniqueblend of Literature, Language, Drama andCreative Writing and are consistentlysuccessful in the National StudentSatisfaction Survey.
• Not only will you join a community ofdedicated writers and scholars but you’llalso contribute to our culture of creativity,innovation and success.
• As proud teachers, we will help youachieve the very best you are capable ofand direct you on a voyage of self-discovery.
• After graduation, our network of nationaland international contacts will enable youto find the most exciting employmentopportunities to match your talents.
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English LiteratureBA (Hons)
On our English Literature BAHons degree you will exploreinnovative critical approaches toliterature, including newtheories, recent discoveries andnew critical methods.
At the heart of the degree is the study ofLiterary History and Literary Theory. Youwill encounter texts from the Renaissance upuntil the present. The degree also offersapproaches to new research areas such asfantasy literature, ecocriticism, postcolonialliterature and gothic literature.
In the first year you will study Victorian,Modern and Contemporary Literatures. Youwill also be introduced to the fascinating andfast-changing world of Literary Theory. Youwill also have the option of studyingCreative Writing, Drama or Language.
In your second year, you will study a core ofLiterary History, this time taking you fromthe Renaissance to the Romantics. Inaddition to this, you will extend yourunderstanding of key issues in contemporaryliterature and theory by studying Women’sWriting and Post-Colonialist Writing.
By the time you reach your third year, webelieve you will be able to decide whereyour interests and strengths lie. In addition towriting a Dissertation on a topic, author ortheme of your own choosing, you will beable to select from a range of specialsubjects offered by staff in their ownresearch specialisms. These include,Contemporary British Fiction, Psychoanalysisand Culture, Fantasy Literature, Literaturefor Children, Victorian Women’s Writing,Literature and Environment, Women’sWriting of the Romantic Era, Shakespeare:
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Stephanie Norgate Reader in Creative Writing
Stephanie Norgate is a poet and playwright. Her poetry has beenhighly praised. Vicki Feaver called her collection Hidden River 'anabsolutely stunning first collection, combining craft and passion'.
Over the last ten years, Stephanie has co-ordinated Chichester’s MA in Creative Writing, establishing it as a national leader in the field,a flagship for the University, and a springboard for new writers.
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Text and Theory and Renaissance Drama:Text and Context.
Our PostgraduatesWe offer MPhils and PhDs in a variety ofareas linked to staff strengths. Currentstudents are working in areas such as FairyTales and Fantasy Literature, Ecocriticismand Renaissance Drama.
Lecturers you will meetOur academic staff members are all activeand published researchers within a thrivingacademic culture. Recent publications by ourstaff include: Fiona Price’s Revolutions in Taste(Ashgate, 2009); Bill Gray’s Fantasy, Art andLife: Essays on George MacDonald, RobertLouis Stevenson and Other Fantasy Writers(Cambridge Scholars, 2011); BenjaminNoys’s The Persistence of the Negative(Edinburgh University Press, 2010); andDuncan Salkeld’s Shakespeare Among TheCourtesans: Prostitution, Literature and Drama1500-1650 (Ashgate, 2013).
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English Literature andLanguage BA (Hons)
Our English Literature andLanguage BA Hons allows youto engage with and add yourvoice to current debates aboutliterature and language.
In addition to modules described in ourEnglish Literature BA Hons programme, youwill develop your study of language inexciting and professionally applicable ways.
In Language: Form and Function you willexplore the structure of English and learn toappreciate the importance of language notonly as a means of communication but alsoas an essential part of creative practice andliterary composition.
In Language: Variety and Change you willlook at the evolution and development ofEnglish, from the Anglo-Saxon periodthrough to present-day international English,and via some the most representative textsand authors of its long history.
In Language and Authority you will look atpolitical rhetoric, the language of advertisingand propaganda, and the discourses ofvarious institutions including academia, law,prison, media, medicine and the military,with the aim to understand the empoweringand manipulative nature of language.
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Dr Fiona Price Reader in English Literature
Fiona’s research work is focussed on Eighteen Century literature andRomanticism. Her writing is well published and her new work iseagerly anticipated by academics in the field. Fiona is also theconvenor of the South Coast Eighteenth Century Research Group(SCERRG) which draws together postgraduate students from theUniversities of Chichester, Southampton, Kent and Winchester.
In Language into Literature you are invited tochallenge the notion of ‘literary’ and ‘poetic’language and examine what Linguistics has tocontribute to our understanding of prose,poetry and drama.
In Language and Mind you will examine childlanguage acquisition, bilingualism, speech,language and communication disorders andlook at recent progress in our understandingof the relationship between language,culture, mind and brain.
In Professional Writing you will apply thetheories and methods of Rhetoric andMultimodal Discourse Analysis to createwriting portfolios relevant to variousprofessional contexts.
Our PostgraduatesDrawing on the department’s strengths inLinguistics, Literary Criticism and Theory,our PhD students are engaged in cross-disciplinary projects that include, mostrecently, an examination of time in grammarand narrative fiction, and a cognitive-poeticanalysis of historical writings about food.
Lecturers you will meetStavroula Varella has published work onlanguage contact, metaphor and lexicalsemantics. She is currently writing a bookon medical terms and a grammar textbookfor undergraduates. Sue Lavender is aTESOL specialist and has particular interestsin intercultural communication.
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English Literature andDrama Studies BA (Hons)
The study of writing for thestage as both a critical and acreative enterprise is at thecentre of our BA Hons inEnglish Literature and DramaStudies.
On this course you will study dramatic textswith renowned critics, as well as writingscripts for the stage, for radio and for thescreen. Members of our staff have writtendrama texts for television, the stage, andradio, and others have worked in theproduction of plays for the theatre.
In From Tragedy to Mystery our you willtrace the origins of drama and the theatreitself back to the ancient Greeks, and learnabout its development in Britain frommedieval times to the period ofShakespeare. This is followed by Theoryand Practice of Modern Drama taking thestory up to the present.
Creative modules include ContemporaryDrama, Writing Radio Drama, DramaticWriting and Writing for the Screen, all ofwhich allow you to develop your skills as adramatist.
There are also third-year options inShakespeare: Text and Culture, andRenaissance Drama: Text and Context.
This experience of studying dramaticliterature from the past, the shapes andbuildings of theatre history, and thebackground to the theatre from the ancientto the modern is especially enriched by theUniversity’s proximity to the world-famous
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Dr Duncan Salkeld Reader in Shakespeare Studies
Duncan is a well-regarded scholar in the highly competitive area ofShakespeare Studies.
His monograph, Madness and Drama in the Age of Shakespeare, iswidely considered to have been ‘ground breaking’. His latestmonograph, Shakespeare Among the Courtesans, has also won muchcritical praise. Duncan was recently appointed Assistant Editor for anew edition of Twelfth Night in the New Varorium Shakespeareseries, a project that commands international scholarly respect. Hehas presented many papers to conferences in England, Italy andAmerica. He is currently writing Shakespeare and London for OxfordUniversity Press.
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Chichester Festival Theatre, which allowsstudents to enjoy and learn fromcontemporary productions and to peekbehind the scenes in pre-arranged visits.
The main theatre itself has recently beenrefurbished after fifty years at the forefrontof British theatre and is celebrating thatanniversary in a number of ways thatinterest our staff and students. Studentsregularly attend productions at the theatrelinked to their courses and, as the theatreoffers discounted prices and is only a ten-minute walk from the University, it is a localfacility that we are particularly proud of.
Our PostgraduatesThere are opportunities to write new dramaon our very successful MA in CreativeWriting and to study drama at doctoral level.The team includes staff members with longexperience of PhD supervision andwelcomes students who wish to studyaspects of drama and the theatre at thislevel.
Lecturers you will meetMembers of the teaching team havepublished numerous books and articles ondrama and the history of the theatre. Theseinclude Simon Barkers’ War and Nation in theTheatre of Shakespeare and hisContemporaries (Edinburgh University Press)and Duncan Salkeld’s Shakespeare Amongstthe Courtesans (Ashgate). Playwright andpoet Stephanie Norgate writes for the stage,while Stephen Mollett writes for televisionand radio.
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Creative Writing andEnglishBA (Hons)
This course is an exciting andinspiring blend of closely-linkeddisciplines. We offer aninnovative curriculum, drawingon our experience in publishingcreative writing, teaching andacademic research.
The University of Chichester boasts one ofthe most experienced Creative Writingteams in the UK. You’ll work with highly-qualified and experienced tutors, all ofwhom are practising and published poets,novelists and dramatists.
Chichester itself is an excellent environmentin which to develop creative skills, with itsprestigious Festival Theatre, the nationallyrenowned Chichester Cinema at New Parkand a thriving local writing scene.
The University also has a burgeoning writingculture, from regular book launches toconferences and events with creativewriters. Some renowned authors to havevisited the University in recent years include:Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, MatthewSweeney, Helen Dunmore, Jo Shapcott,Sarah Hall, Bernadine Evaristo and VickiFeaver.
Many of our students publish and win prizes.In recent years students have gone on topublish novels, poetry collections, win prizesin major competitions such as the BridportPrize and have poems and stories inmagazines such as The Paris Review andStaple. Students have also had workbroadcast on BBC Radio 4.
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Alison MacLeodProfessor of Contemporary Fiction
Alison is a novelist, short story writer and essayist. Her third and most recentnovel, Unexploded, was long-listed for the 2013 Man-Booker Prize and selected asone of The Observer’s ‘Books of the Year’. Her previous works include thenovels The Changeling and The Wave Theory of Angels and the short storycollection, Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction. She has taught a wide range ofEnglish and Creative Writing modules, and has a particular interest, both as alecturer and as a supervisor, in contemporary literature and culture, modernistand postmodernist fiction, and developments within short fiction.
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As a Creative Writing and English student,you will combine creative writing withliterary study. This is because we believe thatto be a good writer you must also be a goodreader. In your first year, you will take twocreative writing modules entitled Activatingthe Imagination. In your second year, you willwrite and study poetry and short fiction indetail. By year three, you feel you will knowwhat you want to say and how you want tosay it. You will therefore be able to choosefrom a range of modules including: Writingthe Novel, Writing the Short Story,Screenwriting, Advanced Poetry, Writing forChildren, Writing for the Stage and Writingfor Radio.
Our PostgraduatesIn addition to our thriving and renowned MAin Creative Writing, we have have aburgeoning Creative Writing MPhil and PhDprogramme. Current students are workingon novels, poetry collections and plays.
Lecturers you will meetPublications by our Creative Writing staffinclude: Alison MacLeod’s Man Booker Prize2013 long-listed Unexploded (HamishHamilton, 2013), Stephanie Norgate’s TheBlue Den (Bloodaxe, 2012), David Swann’sThe Privilege of Rain (Waterloo Press, 2010),and Hugh Dunkerley’s Hare (CinnamonPress, 2010).
We’ve teamed up with Thompson RiversUniversity in Canada to run a studentexchange programme. You will have theopportunity to spend one or two semestersof your second year at Thompson Rivers inKamloops, British Columbia.
Credits for your degree will be transferredback to Chichester and there are no extrafees to pay as you’ll still be registered as astudent in the UK.
The English and Creative Writingdepartment also has European CommunityAction Scheme for the Mobility of UniversityStudents (ERASMUS+) programmeexchange agreements with universities inGermany, France and Turkey. This gives youthe choice of studying in Europe too.
The University is also developing a numberof exchanges with universities in the USA.
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Student Exchanges
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Thresholds
Home of the International Short Story Forum
Cross the threshold, join theconversationLike doorways and other thresholds, a greatshort story lets us step into lives, acrossworlds and through states of mind. Whetheryou're a postgraduate student with a love ofthe short story, a curious reader or a shortstory writer, register at THRESHOLDS nowto find out more and join the conversation: www.chi.ac.uk/shortstoryforum
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The Sussex Centre forFolklore, Fairy Tales andFantasy
Established in 2009 by ProfessorBill Gray, the Centre provides aforum where writers andscholars from various disciplinescan discuss folk narratives, fairytales and fantasy works.
At the heart of this project is the importanceof fairy tales as a creative force in literatureand culture.
The Centre is rooted in the folk and fantasytraditions in Sussex and its surroundingregion, an area rich in examples of all threekinds of narrative. Offerings include folknarratives through literary fairy tales writtenin, and about, Sussex as well as major worksof fantasy and myth by Sussex’s GeorgeMacDonald, David Lindsay, Mervyn Peakeand Neil Gaiman. There are fantasy and fairytale elements in prose works by Kipling,Wilde and Wells as well as in the poetry ofBlake, Keats, Shelley and Tennyson. Theserenowned writers all have connections withSussex, as do the fantasy illustrators Peake,Rackham, and Shepard.
Though its heart is in Sussex, the scope ofthe project is geographically and culturallyinclusive. While the contemporary fantasymarket is dominated by British authors werealise that the fairy tale traditions that shapelater fantasy derive not only from Italy,France, Germany and Scandinavia but alsofrom sources far beyond Europe. It’s thisdiversity and exuberance of folktales andfairy tales and the fantastic imagination thatthe Centre seeks to explore, discuss andcelebrate in myriad ways.
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Uniting writers and scholars from diversecommunities, the Centre has forged linkswith leading British and internationalinstitutions. What’s more, it has aninternational and interdisciplinary advisoryboard which includes DL Ashliman, CristinaBacchilega, Colin Manlove, Don Haase,Maria Nikolajeva, Marina Warner and JackZipes.
EventsThe Centre hosts a series of eveninglectures which attract great public andacademic interest. In April 2012, the jointSussex Centre/Folklore Society conference‘Folklore & Fantasy’ was held at theUniversity and in September 2012, theCentre joined with Kingston University tohost Grimms’ Bicentenary Conference AfterGrimm: Fairy Tales and the Art of StoryTelling. March 2013 brought a Fairy TaleSymposium to the Centre with a keynotefrom world famous fairy tale expert JackZipes, and in November 2013 to January2014 Grimm Girls: Picturing the ‘Princess’, acurated exhibition of fairy-tale illustrations.
For further information about the SussexCentre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy,please visit: www.chi.ac.uk/scfff
New work by• Ruth B. Bottigheimer• Katherine Langrish• Maria Nikolajeva• D.L. Ashliman• Sadhana Naithani• John Pazdziora • Stephen Badman• Scott Wood• Lili Sarnyai.•Catriona McAra. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Featuring illustrations byWalter Crane, Edmund Dulac, Charles Folkard, Brian Froud, Warwick Goble, Arthur Rackham and Binette Schroeder.
Summer 2014Issue 5
The Journal of the Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy
ISBN 978-1-907852-29-9ISSN 2050-2915
Above: Edward Dulac, Sindbad the Sailorand other Stories from The Arabian Nights(London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1914).Below: ‘The Fairy Queen’s Messenger’,World of Faerie (2007). Credit: Brian Froud.
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Our other Research Centres
The South Coast Eighteenth Centuryand Romantic Research Group As well as its Roman walls and medievalcathedral, Chichester boasts splendidexamples of Georgian streets and domesticarchitecture. Associated with this richheritage, the South Coast EighteenthCentury and Romantic Research Group(SCERRG) offers a wide range of lecturesand events relating to all aspects of 18thcentury life and culture. For moreinformation, please contact Dr Fiona Priceat: [email protected] or visit the website:www.scerrg.org
Theory Research GroupThe Theory Research Group (TRG) is aninterdisciplinary framework for debate andresearch in the field of theory. It currentlyconsists of a series of open seminars held atthe University and related events elsewhere.The aim of the seminars is to treat theory asa site of productive disagreement anddebate, and to engage theory with otherdiscourses and objects. For furtherinformation please contact Dr Benjamin Noys: [email protected] or visitthe blog: theoryresearchgroup.blogspot.com
Charlotte Smith,the Chichesternovelist whoinspired JaneAusten.
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Our successes
In the last few years, the work ofour Creative Writing studentshas flourished.
We’re very proud to have been the venuefor many debut book launches and wouldlike to thank our graduates for returning toshare their experience with Chichester’scurrent Creative Writing (MA) students.
The crucible of talent and inspiration on theMA continues to grow through our uniquecourse with its methods of literary cross-fertilisation and finely developed critique. Inmany ways, the MA writers create thisatmosphere through their collectivededicated approach to workshopping – aprocess that we teach with precision. Thestudents’ generosity to one another is valuedby everybody on the course.
Our annual MA in Creative Writingpublishing panel event has become anopportunity for graduates to return andnetwork with other students, agents andpublishers. Below are the highlights ofsuccesses in recent years:
• Bethan Roberts' third novel, My Policeman(Chatto and Windus), was released inFebruary 2012. Her previous novel, TheGood Plain Cook, was the book at bedtimeon Radio 4 and received excellent reviews.Bethan's first novel, The Pools, whichevolved from her MA dissertation, waspublished by Serpent's Tail in the summerof 2007. Her new novel, Mother Island, ispublished in July 2014.
• Isabel Ashdown’s award-winning debutnovel, Glasshopper (left), was published byMyriad Editions in 2009. Her secondnovel, Hurry Up and Wait, was published
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to critical acclaim in 2011 and her thirdnovel, Summer of ’76, was published in2013. Isabel is also Writer in Residence2013-14 at University of Brighton.
• Jac Cattaneo won the 2010 RoyalAcademy of Arts short story competition,sponsored by Litro Magazine.
• KJ Orr, an AHRC funded University ofChichester PhD student, was shortlistedfor the National Short Story Award 2012.In 2013 she was shortlisted for theBridport Prize.
• Jane Rusbridge’s first novel, The Devil’sMusic, was published by Bloomsbury in2009. It was described as: “a beautifullytold story of family secrets and betrayal,involving knots, Harry Houdini and theshifting landscape of memory.” The novelwas initially part of her MA dissertationproject. Her second novel, Rook, waspublished in 2012.
• Juliet West’s first novel Before the Fall ispublished by Mantle/Macmillan (2014).
• Maggie Sawkins won the 2013 TedHughes Award for New Work in Poetryfor her multimedia live interactiveproduction, Zones of Avoidance.
• Lena Bakke has won the Allers novelwriting competition in her native Norway.Allers have commissioned 15 books in theseries about the Viking woman BorghildrSigurdsdottir.
• Francis Burton’s collection of shortstories, A History of Sarcasm, (writtenduring the MA) was published in 2010 byDoghorn Publishing.
Further details can be found on the studentsuccesses tab at: www.chi.ac.uk/english
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Publications by ourstudents and staff.
Our graduates from this subjectarea are highly valued byemployers for their problem-solving and exceptionalcommunication skills.
Career paths• Teaching (after taking a PGCE)• Teaching English as a foreign language• Publishing• Journalism• Arts event management• University administration• Heritage and tourism• Accountancy• Working with charities• Writing• Graphic design
The key to an English or Creative Writingdegree is communication, and at Chichesterwe focus on your abilities in written andspoken expression through: • group work and group presentations• opportunities to develop your self- managed research projects• developing your skills in critical analysis.
As well as an extensive programme onlanguage and engaging courses that explorethe diversity of literature, we offer a yearthree course in Professional Writing. Withits focus on transferable and employabilityskills, this module will allow you to gain asound knowledge of the functions of writtencommunication appropriate to a range ofprofessional environments.
You will also have the opportunity to takeour Workplace Module. This allows you togain experience in, for example, a workplacesuch as a local newspaper or as a writer-in-residence. You will then use the skills youhave learnt on your course in order toreflect critically on the world of work.
We run a series of competitive, paidinternships for graduates. We’ve hadinternships at Penguin, Myriad Editions,Chawton House Library, a research centrefor 18th century women’s writing, and theinternational journal Short Fiction in Theoryand Practice.
What makes us different...our commitment to youremployability
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Destination of Leavers from Higher Education survey*
* 92.5% of our students who graduated in 2012, after studying with us full time for theirfirst degree, were in full-time employment or undertaking postgraduate studies.
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Staff profiles
Our English and CreativeWriting lecturers continue withtheir teaching duties whilewriting award-winning literatureand literary criticism.
Professor Simon BarkerHead of DepartmentSimon was previously Head of Humanities atthe University of Lincoln and has also ledEnglish at the Universities of Winchester andGloucestershire. Earlier he taught at theRoyal Welsh College of Music and Drama.He is a graduate of the University of Stirlingand the University of Wales.
Simon’s teaching and research interests lie inthe cultural history of the Tudor and early-Stuart period with an emphasis on thetheatre. He has a particular interest in therepresentation of military conflict on thestage and in other media. In 2002 he editedWartime Refractions, a special issue of theinterdisciplinary journal Literature andHistory. His books include War and Nation inthe Theatre of Shakespeare and hisContemporaries (Edinburgh University Press),The Gentle Craft (Ashgate), and Shakespeare’sProblem Plays (Palgrave Macmillan).
Simon is joint editor, with Hilary Hinds, ofThe Routledge Anthology of RenaissanceDrama and worked with Jo Gill to produceLiterature as History: Essays in Honour of PeterWiddowson. He is currently writing a bookabout The Forsyte Saga author JohnGalsworthy, who has a local connection tothe area.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Dr Jessica de MellowSenior Lecturer Jessica studied for her BA and PhD in EnglishLiterature at Cardiff University, where shebegan her teaching career. She joined thedepartment at Chichester in 1994 to take upa full-time post teaching English.
As well as leading courses in Victorianliterature, 20th century literature andwomen's writings, Jessica teaches on all threelevels of the English Literature degree as wellas contributing to the Creative Writing andEnglish programme. Her research andteaching interests include: the Victorian finde siècle, modernist poetry, Romanticpoetry and Gothic fiction. Her own fictionhas been published in British and Europeanmagazines, and her work has been adaptedby BBC Radio 4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dr Hugh DunkerleySenior Lecturer After doing an MA in Creative Writing atLancaster University, Hugh came toChichester in 1989. Since then, he’s taughton a variety of courses – both creative andcritical. He currently teaches on second andthird year undergraduate courses as well ascontributing to the MA in Creative Writingand running a third year option entitledLiterature, Environment and Ecocriticism.
Ecocriticism is the study of representationsof nature in literature, and is based on theassumption that we live and write in a more-than-human world. His teaching reflects hisresearch interests. His chapbook of poetry,
Walking to the Fire Tower (Redbeck Press),came out in 1997. A second collection, Fast(Pighog Press) was published in 2007. A fullcollection entitled Hare was published byCinnamon Press in 2010. In addition topoetry and short fiction, he writes articleson contemporary poetry and ecocriticism aswell as reviewing for various magazines, suchas The London Magazine and Envoi. He’scurrently leading an initiative to embedsustainability in the curriculum at Chichester.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Vicki Feaver Emeritus Professor One of Britain's leading poets, Vicki haswritten three collections: Close Relatives(Secker, 1981), The Handless Maiden (Cape,1994) and The Book of Blood (Cape, 2006)which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize.Her work is also represented in manyanthologies of contemporary poetry and aselection is included in the Penguin ModernPoets series. She has published essays on theprocess of writing and on 20th centurywomen poets, and has read and taught atfestivals all over the world.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Professor Bill Gray Professor of Literary History andHermeneuticsAs well as studying literature, philosophy andtheology at University of Oxford, theUniversity of Edinburgh and PrincetonUniversity, Bill has published articles andchapters in all of these areas. He’s alsopublished books on CS Lewis and RobertLouis Stevenson.
His third year module – Other Worlds:Fantasy Literature for Children of All Ages –explores the origins of fantasy literature,specifically, German Romanticism and itsdevelopment into later examples of fantasywriting by George MacDonald, LewisCarroll, JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis as well ascontemporary writers such as JK Rowlingand Philip Pullman.
Bill has recently published two books –Fantasy, Myth and the Measure of Truth: Talesof Pullman, Lewis, Tolkien, MacDonald andHoffmann (for details and reviews seePalgrave Macmillan) and Death and Fantasy:Essays on Philip Pullman, CS Lewis, GeorgeMacDonald and RL Stevenson (see CambridgeScholars Publishing Titles in Print or Amazonbooks). Bill's latest book is Fantasy and Life:Essays on George MacDonald, Philip Pullman,CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien and RL Stevenson.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Professor Alison MacLeodProfessor of Contemporary FictionSince joining the English Department in1990, Alison has contributed to an excitingrange of modules. This work has taken herfrom the fulsome Victorian novels of Hardy,Eliot and the Brontës to the leanpostmodern thrillers of Auster and Ackroyd.She’s explored the Gothic creations of EdgarAllan Poe and the 'new' Gothic style ofwriters like Patrick McGrath, Ian McEwanand AM Homes. Alison enjoys theModernist experiments of Virginia Woolfand DH Lawrence as well as theflamboyance and craft of Angela Carter andJeanette Winterson. She’s keenly interestedin 21st century fiction and its developments.
Now teaching primarily on the CreativeWriting programme within English studies,Alison’s speciality is fiction, though, like all ofher colleagues in this department, sheteaches across a range of genres. She’s alsoone of the team of writers who deliverChichester's MA in Creative Writing, co-teaching the module, Metaphor and theImagination. Her publications include TheWave Theory of Angels, Fifteen Modern Talesof Attraction and Unexploded, published byHamish Hamilton and Penguin and long listedfor the 2013 Man Booker Prize.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dr Isla Duncan Research AssociateIsla’s research interests include: Canadianliterature, contemporary women's writings,applied linguistics and institutional discourse.She’s had articles published in CanadianLiterature and British Journal for CanadianStudies. In 2012, she published Alice Munro’sNarrative Art (Palgrave Macmillan).. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Stephen MollettSenior Lecturer in English and CreativeWritingSince reading English Literature atCambridge, for more than a decadeStephen’s been an Senior Lecturer atChichester on the Creative Writingprogramme. From 2004 to 2008, he was aRoyal Literary Fellow, where he helpedstudents of myriad subjects to improve theirwriting. Stephen’s tutored at the ArvonFoundation in Devon, where he was alsocentre director for two years. He’s writtenfor the stage, radio and television includingfive episodes of Doctors for BBC 1.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Stephanie NorgateReader in Creative Writing; Coordinator ofCreative Writing (MA)Stephanie’s writing and teaching interestsare: poetry, contemporary and past;translating poetry; contemporary stagedrama; radio drama; and creative writing. In2001, she received an Arts Council Englandwriter’s award. Her writing credits includepoetry, radio plays and plays performed atthe London and Edinburgh Festival Fringes.Her latest poetry collection is The Blue Den(Bloodaxe Books).. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dr Benjamin NoysReader in EnglishWith research traversing the field of criticaltheory – particularly its intersections withcultural production – Benjamin’s currentlyworking on the question of negativity incontemporary theory and its implications forpolitical practice. His future work is focusedon temporality, forms of value and theanthropology of the subject. He also has acritical interest in avant-garde aesthetics andthe problem of transgression in art, theoryand cultural politics.
Benjamin is a corresponding editor ofHistorical Materialism, and a member of theeditorial boards of Film-Philosophy and S.He also directs the Theory Research Group,our interdisciplinary group devoted topresenting work in contemporary theory.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dr Fiona PriceSenior Lecturer in EnglishFiona has written extensively on 18thcentury women's writing and aesthetics.She’s currently working on a monograph onthe politics of the historical novel in thedecades before Sir Walter Scott's Waverley
(1814) and editing a special issue of thejournal Women's Writing, entitled 'RomanticWomen Writers and the Fictions ofHistory'. Her edition of Jane Porter'shistorical novel The Scottish Chiefs (1810) hasbeen published by Broadview; she’s alsoeditor of Sarah Green's Private History of theCourt of England (1808; Pickering andChatto, 2011).
She is a founding member of the SouthCoast Eighteenth-Century and RomanticResearch Group, which aims to provide adynamic research environment for staff andpostgraduates working in the 18th century.Fiona’s also been awarded the prestigiousposition of an Andrew Mellon FoundationFellow at the Huntington Library inCalifornia.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dr. Duncan SalkeldReader in EnglishAuthor of Madness and Drama in the Age ofShakespeare (Manchester University Press,1993) and several articles on Shakespeareand Renaissance drama, Duncan’s recentpublications include Shakespeare Among theCourtesans: Prostitution, Literature, and Drama,1500-1650 (Ashgate, 2013).
Duncan’s teaching and research interestsinclude: Shakespeare; Renaissance drama;early modern prosecutions and legalrecords; and textual scholarship. He givesregular conference papers at Britishuniversities, and has organised a ShakespeareStudy Day at the University for local A Leveland Access students. He’s currentlypreparing a book on Shakespeare andLondon.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Karen StevensSenior LecturerAfter completing her MA at LancasterUniversity, Karen began teaching atUniversity of Chichester on a variety of ourCreative Writing modules. Children’s fictionand contemporary short fiction are ofspecific interest to her. Her short storieshave been published in The Big Issue (1995),Pulp Net (2004), Londonart.co.uk onlinegallery (2005) and in the anthologies: WaterBabies (Panurge New Fiction, 1995), MouthOgres (Oxmarket Press, 2001), Spoonfaceand Other Stories (Fish Publishing, 2004),Dreaming Beasts (Krebs and Snopes, 2005)and Overheard: stories to read aloud,published by Salt. She also edited Writing aFirst Novel: reflections on the journey (2013).
Karen is presently writing her first novelwhich was shortlisted for the British ArtsCouncil-funded Adventures in FictionApprenticeships in 2007. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
David Swann Senior lecturerDave has an MA in Creative Writing fromLancaster University, which he passed withDistinction. From 1996 to 1997, he wasWriter in Residence at HM NottinghamPrison. He now teaches modules in CreativeWriting and Dave's short stories and poemshave been widely published. Recentpublications include: The Last Days of JohnnyNorth (Elastic Press) and The Privilege of Rain(Waterloo Press), which was shortlisted forthe 2011 Ted Hughes Award for new work.His poem ‘The last days of the Lancashireboggarts’ was commended in the 2013National Poetry Competition.
Dr Stavroula Varella Senior Lecturer in EnglishStavroula gained her BA Hons Linguistics andPhD at the University of Sussex andsubsequently published her monographLanguage, Contact and the Lexicon (PeterLang, 2006). Her research interests include:historical linguistics, language contact andlexicology. Stavroula is working on twoforthcoming publications: Illness and theLexicon: Medical Terminology in History,Culture and Society (Palgrave Macmillan,2016) and An English Student’s Guide toGrammar (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
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We welcome all applicantswith the followingqualifications:
Entry requirements
Typical Offer (Individual offers may vary):
History (BA Hons)A levels: ABB – BBCAccess: Pass with 15 level 3 credits worth ofunits at MeritInternational Baccalaureate: 30 points
Politics and Contemporary HistoryA levels: ABB – BBCAccess: Pass with 15 level 3 credits worth ofunits at MeritInternational Baccalaureate: 30 points
PoliticsTBC
Alternatively, for either course – successfulcompletion of the mature student non-standard entry process.
For this pathway, please apply directly to:• Dr Hugo Frey, Head of Department, Email: [email protected] Complete University Guide 2014
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