University of Glasgow
creative writing | fantasy literature
I am researching women who turn into stone, exploring with texts and approached from NK Jemisin and Lucy Wood to Carmen Maria Machado and Natalie Haynes. I have facilitated workshops, spoken at conferences, written chapters and articles and taught at both undergraduate and postgraduate level both during and prior to attending the University of Glasgow. I am currently (slowly) editing a novel as part of my doctorate, and have written short stories, narrative research, and creative non-fiction as part of my PhD portfolio.
Future
But I’ve never been to Russia!
Trauma Onstage: Using Magical Realism and Immersive Theatre to Convey Bodily Manifestations of Trauma
TARTALO. The VII International Conference on Myth in the Arts, University of the Basque Country
‘Life Doesn’t Come with a Manual, it Comes with a Mother’: Holly Black’s use of Changelings to Extend and Disrupt Mother/Daughter Relationships
Disruptive Imaginations, Technische Universität Dresden 2023
Past
A Quest for (Im)Mortality: Holly Black’s use of Changelings, Time, and Transformation
Finncon, Tampere University 2023
Creating and Representing Trauma in Immersive Theatre with Magical Realism
Dark Fantasies. Aesthetics of the Nightmare from the 20th Century to the Present, Goethe-Institut, Glasgow 2023
Character Creation Through Play: How to Use Improvisation in Your Work (workshop)
Once and Future Fantasies, University of Glasgow 2022
Chapters, Articles, and Reviews
Why Women Petrify: An Exploration of Woman Turning to Stone
Embodying the Fantastic (forthcoming)
Peer reviewer for “Mapping the Impossible: Journal for Fantasy Research” and “eSharp”
Teaching
The Novel and Narratology (English Literature, undergraduate) University of Glasgow
Writing the City (Creative Writing, postgraduate International Summer School) University of Glasgow
The Whole World on the Head of a Pin: Writing and Experimenting with Flash Fiction (Creative Writing, undergraduate and postgraduate) University of Glasgow
Heroic Men (Comparative Literature, undergraduate) University of Glasgow
Drama: Beginnings (Drama, undergraduate) University of Cumbria
Theatre of the Avante Garde (Drama, undergraduate) University of Cumbria