CREATIVE WRITING RESEARCH DEGREES The Department welcomes applications for PhD and MPhil degrees. We are very interested to hear from suitably qualified writers with original ideas for research.
MPhil/PhD
Cath Nichols PhD in Creative Writing
Cath left a job at a poetry organisation to begin her studies at Lancaster. She had also worked in print and radio journalism. Recently a collection of her poems has been published.
“In my job I spent most of my time developing other writers and performers. I really wanted to take some time out to edit my own full-length collection of poems and raise my game as a writer.”
“I chose the MA in Creative Writing at Lancaster as it gave me the opportunity to build up new networks in Cumbria and Lancashire; I’m still in touch with many of those people now. It also encouraged me to think about the areas of my research that I could develop which led me to the area I now research for my PhD.”
“I’ve always been interested in how poetry sounds so it seemed natural to make part of my research about radio. The tutor I approached was equally enthusiastic and my studies now include the poets’ perspectives, the history of the medium, and the perspectives of radio commissioners.”
“I also teach first year Creative Writing students within the Department. It’s fun and good work experience. I hope to remain working in academia when I finish.”
This MA should suit anyone who wishes to undertake an intensive year of study on any literary topic. We accept applications in all literary fields, we particularly welcome applications to work on one of the following themes: Shakespeare to Aphra Behn; Romanticism (particularly Wordsworth and the Lake Poets); Victorian literature (particularly Ruskin); women’s writing, feminist and gender theory; literature and religion and 20th and cultural theory.
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Dr Sally Bushell: Romantic poetics; manuscript work and textual editing of Romantic and Victorian texts; composition and poetic process; the long poem in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; Wordsworth; Tennyson.
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Entry Requirements: An MA, or its equivalent; previous publications of high quality. Assessment: By thesis which should be a sustained and fully achieved piece of creative writing – a complete novel, script, collection of poems or collection of short fiction. It should achieve publishable standard and should be accompanied by a substantial piece of reflective or critical writing, suitably referenced. IELTS: 6.5 Funding: AHRC and University Studentships - see also page 213.
Further Information
www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/english
There is a thriving constituency of Creative Writing MPhil/PhD students working across a range of literary genres and research projects. Former doctoral students include Alison MacLeod, Andrew Miller and Siri Reynolds whose doctoral novels The Changeling (Macmillan), Ingenious Pain (Sceptre), House of Rooms (Polygon) were published to wide acclaim.
Poems from Nigel McLoughlin’s doctoral study form the basis of his recently published Bluechrome Press Collection, Blood, and Raymond Robinson’s novel, Electricity, has been published by Picador. George Green’s novel, Hound, has been published by Bantam Press.
RESEARCH CENTRES
The Wordsworth Centre The Wordsworth Centre’s primary aim is to promote interest in Wordsworth and the Lake District. We work closely with the Wordsworth Trust and are interested in collaboration with those with a literary interest in the Lakes. The Centre is also interested in exploring wider questions about poetry and landscape, poetry and conservation, and in looking ahead from romantic poetry to the present day.
Centre for Transcultural Writing The Centre links Lancaster University’s postgraduate student community to a range of transcultural research activity in the UK and Africa, promoting the generation of creative writing across cultures and the study of its interactions with different social and cultural contents.
The Shakespeare Programme The Shakespeare Programme seeks to establish and explore the significance of links between what was then a centre of Roman Catholic dissent, and the man whose subsequent writings now constitute our greatest national literary asset.
STAFF RESEARCH INTERESTS
Nineteenth-Century Studies: Romantic and Victorian Prof Simon Bainbridge: Writing of the Romantic period; literary and cultural responses to Napoleon; Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars; Wordsworth; Byron and Byronism.
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