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Dr Polly Atkin

Part I and Part II Tutor, English and Creative Writng

Degree: PhD English and Sociology (Lancaster)

Current Teaching

CREW 103: Introduction to Creative Writing

ENGL 384: Women and Poetry in America, 1960 - the present

Research Interests

Poetry, Romanticism, The Long Nineteenth Century, Tourism Studies (contemporary and historical), Literary Geographies, Writing and Illness, Poetic Practice, Contemporary Literatures in English.

Selected Publications

'Paradox Inn: Home and Passing Through at Grasmere' in Romantic Localities: Europe Writes Places, ed. by Christoph Bode and Jacqueline Labbe (London, Pickering and Chatto, 2010)

'Ghosting Grasmere: the musealisation of Dove Cottage' in Literary Tourism and Nineteenth Century Culture, ed. by Nicola Watson (London: Palgrave, 2009)

bone song (Clitheroe: Aussteiger, 2008) - shortlisted for the 2009 Michael Marks Poetry Pamphlet Award

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