Information for Applicants:

Dr Jayne Steel

Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing

Jayne Steel has a BA, an MA and a doctorate from Lancaster University. She is a lecturer in literary theory, film theory and screenwriting at Lancaster.

Her main research interests are in: women writers from the north of Ireland, modern literary theories and film theories, especially those following psychoanalytical and postmodern perspectives. Her PhD is entitled 'Representations of the Provisional IRA in British Film, Fiction and the Media: 1968-2000' and argues that the Irish paramilitary Other is often a mirror image of the British Self. She has published in Irish Review, Writing in Education and Irish Studies Review. She has forthcoming publications with Irish Academic Press and Ohio University Press. Her next research projects will be concerned with the women writing the 'troubles'; particularly the work of Jennifer Johnston.

Her work as a professional screenwriter has won several awards and her work has been shown at the Cannes Film Festival. Jayne's publications and awards include:

'Three Voices'. Short story commissioned for performance at Lancaster Literature Festival. 1998.

'Taking the Trama Out of Creative Writing', Writing in Education (spring 2001)

Mavis and the Mermaid: screenplay for Shoreline Films. Winner of 2000 'Kodak Showcase for New European Talent'. Shown at 2000 Cannes Film Festival and 2000 Edinburgh Film Festival. Screened in London, Los Angeles, Houston and Sweden. Short-listed for the 'Stella Artois Short Film Shoot-Out' and 'Writing on the Wall'. Won the coveted 'Special Gold Jury Award' at 2001 WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival'.

Public showing of Story of the Sands at the Poetry Society in London (May 2001).

Thereby Hangs a Tale : screenplay (2001). Winner of 2001 Third Annual DNA/Script Factory First Draft Award.

'The Trials of Death on the Rock' Irish Review 27 (Summer 2001).

'The Television Document and the Real', JPCS, 8.2 (Autumn 2003).

'And Behind Him A Wicked Hag Did Stalk' in Soldiers, New Women and Wicked Hags: Historical and Cultural Representations of Irish Nationalist Women (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2004).

'Pyschologising the Private', in Representing The Troubles: Texts and Images, eds. Brian Cliff and Eibhear Walshe(Dublin: Four Courts, 2004).

Frozen: Screenplay. Feature film. RS Productions (2004). Premiered at London Film Festival.

'Jayne Steel on How To Write Like Isabelle Allende', Myslexia (25: Spring, 2005), 49.

Forthcoming, book commissioned by Palgrave: The Art and Practice of Creative Writing.

Read about Jayne's films

Jayne's publications and awards include:

'Three Voices'. Short story commissioned for performance at Lancaster Literature Festival. 1998.

'Taking the Trauma Out of Creative Writing', Writing in Education (spring 2001)

Mavis and the Mermaid: screenplay for Shoreline Films. Winner of 2000 'Kodak Showcase for New European Talent'. Shown at 2000 Cannes Film Festival and 2000 Edinburgh Film Festival. Screened in London, Los Angeles, Houston and Sweden. Short-listed for the 'Stella Artois Short Film Shoot-Out' and 'Writing on the Wall'. Won the coveted 'Special Gold Jury Award' at 2001 WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival'.

Public showing of Story of the Sands at the Poetry Society in London (May 2001).

Thereby Hangs A Tale: screenplay (2001). Winner of 2001 Third Annual DNA/Script Factory First Draft Award.

'The Trials of Death on the Rock' Irish Review 27 (Summer 2001).

'The Television Document and the Real', JPCS, 8.2 (Autumn 2003).

'And Behind Him A Wicked Hag Did Stalk' in Soldiers, New Women and Wicked Hags: Historical and Cultural Representations of Iris Nationalist Women (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2004).'Pyschologising the Private', in Representing The Troubles: Texts and Images, eds. Brian Cliff and Eibhear Walshe(Dublin: Four Courts, 2004).

Frozen: Screenplay. Feature film. RS Productions (2004). Premiered at London Film Festival.

'Jayne Steel on How To Write Like Isabelle Allende', Myslexia (25: Spring, 2005), 49.

Wordsmithery: The Writer's Craft and Practice (London: Palgrave, 2006).

Demons, Hamlets and Femmes Fatales: Representations of the Troubles (forthcoming, 2007).

Contact Details

Department of English and Creative Writing
Bowland College
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YT

E-mail:
j.steel1 @lancaster.ac.uk

Tel:

594247

Unless otherwise shown, prefix numbers:
+44 (0) 1524

Fax: 594247

Room: Bowland A47a