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Summary of Staff Research Interests

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  Jenn Ashworth

  My main areas of interest are long prose fiction and the short story. My recent work has concentrated on the unreliable or limited narrator and on LDS fiction. I am currently working on a piece of long fiction in the first person omnicient point of view that engages with ideas about healing, transformation, haunting and masculinity.
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  Polly Atkin

  Romantic Literature and Romantics Legacies; Poetry and Place; Ecopoietics; Tourism and Heritage Studies; Literary Tourism; Lake District tourism and literature; Regional Culture; Poetry and Embodiment; Contemporary Writing; Creative Writing.  I'm particularly interested in interdisciplinary work which combines sociological research with literary criticism. 
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  Brian Baker

  I am currently researching in masculinities and contemporary film towards a monograph, In 2014 I will be writing a book on the history of science fiction in the 1960s, which will extend work already completed on New Wave science fiction and literary experimentation. I am also pursuing new developments in critical/creative practice.
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  Sally Bushell

  My larger research interests are in the field of British Romanticism with a particular interest in Wordsworth and the Lake District as well as in the form of the long poem and in critical exploration of poetic process.  I am interested in interpreting the text in all its states (visual, material and verbal).  My current research is on literary cartography and the mapping and reading of literary works for which a map appears alongside the text. 
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  Jo Carruthers

  My main areas of interest are in the Bible and literature, Englishness, and literary geographies. My most recent work is on Englishness and simplicity. I am also interested in the workings of ritual and place in religious and national identities (especially in relation to the Jewish festival Purim). Carrying on work already done on the biblical Book of Esther I am also working on a book on female biblical figures in Victorian literature.
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  Jane Draycott

  My principal areas of practical research are in poetry and poetic translation, poetic sound-montage and the short story. I have been interested in the connections between medieval dream narratives and the jump-cut and dramatic effects of some modernist poetry - my current new work 'After Awater' takes its lead from the long 1934 poem 'Awater' by Dutch poet Martinus Nijhoff. I am also currently completing translations of some of the 1930s poems of Henri Michaux.  
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  John Schad

  My main areas of research are: critical-creative writing; post-criticism; Modernism; Victorian writing; literary theory; and the relationship between religion and literature.
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  Catherine Spooner

  Catherine Spooner specialises in Gothic literature and culture from the nineteenth century to the present. Her first book, Fashioning Gothic Bodies, examined the relationship between Gothic literature and dress from the French Revolution to Goth subculture. This was followed by Contemporary Gothic, an exploration of contemporary uses of Gothic in literature, film, television, fashion, art and consumer culture. She is currently working on an AHRC-funded research project entitled Post-Millennial Gothic: Comedy, Romance and the Rise of Happy Gothic, to be published by Continuum in 2013.