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Renaissance and Early Modern Literature Creative Writing
Dr Robert Appelbaum: Early modern cultural studies; Jo Baker: Irish fiction; women’s writing.
Shakespeare and Milton; seventeenth century Helen Farish: Contemporary women’s poetry (Louise Gluck and
colonialism, Utopianism, and the New World. Sharon Olds); short fiction.
Prof Alison Findlay: Feminist approaches to Shakespearean drama Paul Farley: Contemporary British poetry; English Romanticism;
(including women’s drama); staging cities in the plays of Richard the city in literature; sound art.
Brome. George Green: Irish writing; biography and creative non-fiction;
Dr Hilary Hinds: Seventeenth-century writing and feminist the historical novel; graphic novels.
criticism; women writers from the radical religious sects of the Graham Mort: Poetry and short fiction; writing for radio;
seventeenth century. pedagogy of creative writing; emergent African literature.
Dr Liz Oakley-Brown: Early modern writing-especially translations Prof John Schad: memoir; critical-creative writing; place writing.
into English; Literary Theory. Dr Jayne Steel: Screenwriting; children and horror fiction.
Women’s Writing and Feminist Theory
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Dr Tess Cosslett: Women’s poetry; the construction of self in
contemporary women’s autobiography.
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Dr Alison Findlay: Women’s writing in 1550-1700 (especially
drama).
Dr Hilary Hinds: Seventeenth-century writing (especially women’s
writing in the radical sects); Contemporary images of feminism
(especially in the press).
Dr Lindsey Moore: Postcolonial women’s writing; contemporary riting
Arab women’s writing.
Prof Lynne Pearce: Re-scripting romance; women as
readers/women as writers; theories of gendered reading; gender
and National/Regional identity.
Kim Wiltshire
Dr Catherine Spooner: Fashion, gender and the body.
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Dr Jayne Steel: Irishwomen’s writing; film scripts.
Kim Wiltshire is studying for a joint English and Creative
Writing PhD in the department, part time.
Students working in this area will also benefit from the presence of
the internationally recognised Centre for Gender and Women’s
”After completing an MA in Creative Writing at Manchester
Studies which offers an extensive programme of seminars and
Metropolitan University, I felt that I wanted to take my research
in feminist literary criticism further. Having worked in Lancaster,
conferences.
a few years ago, I took a look at Lancaster University’s website
Twentieth-Century Literature and Cultural
and realised that one of the professors in the department, who
has subsequently become my supervisor, was the author of the
Theory English and Cr
book on feminist rhetoric I was reading at the time. I emailed
Dr Arthur Bradley: Literature and theology; literary and cultural
her straight away, and she was really enthusiastic and helpful,
theory.
having since guided my rather naïve initial ideas into a study of
Dr Brian Baker: Representations of masculinity in fiction and in
types of masculinity used in contemporary fiction in relation to
cinema; genre fiction; science fiction; contemporary British and
feminism – exactly what I wanted to look into, but wasn’t sure
American fiction; literature and cinema.
how! Because I want to interweave my own writing through
Prof Terry Eagleton: the novel; Irishness; politics and literature.
the study, I also have a creative writing supervisor, who has
Dr Michael Greaney: Joseph Conrad; the contemporary novel of
been a real support with my writing.”
ideas.
Dr Lee Horsley: Comparative approaches to satire in Twentieth
”I commute between Manchester, where I live and work, and
Century British and/or American literature; the literature of political Lancaster, which means I have the best of both worlds.
crisis and collapse in the second half of the 20
th
Century; crime Lancaster is an incredibly calming atmosphere to work in, and
fiction and the Noir thriller. the department is supportive and friendly. I can spend one day
Dr Lindsey Moore: Postcolonial literatures and theory; identity, here and get more work done than I can in a week at home!”
memory and community: writing migrancy; Salman Rushdie.
Mr Tony Pinkney: T.S. Eliot and the transformations of
”The emphasis placed on forming a postgraduate community in
Romanticism.
Lancaster is also fantastic. In the first year I attended a series of
Prof John Schad: Modernism; mid-century writing; life after
research skills seminars, and met other postgraduates from the Arts and Social Sciences:
theory.
faculty. It really helped to form a bond with the University as I
Dr Tony Sharpe: Modernism and the poetry of T.S. Eliot;
could contact others in the same position as me if I needed a
Modernism and the poetry of Wallace Stevens.
bit of support, or advice, or even just a chat. There is always a
Dr Catherine Spooner: Gothic in literature, film and popular
seminar, or event, or gathering happening, and it makes you
culture; fashion and dress in literature and popular culture.
feel as if you are part of the University.”
Dr Andrew Tate: Contemporary American fiction and theology.
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