The School of English is delighted to announce the appointment of a new lecturer in creative writing, Dr Spencer Jordan.
Dr Jordan takes up his post in the School on 1 February, to work with colleagues on our successful undergraduate and MA programmes.
The School is currently making offers for places on our BA and MA creative writing programmes for 2015. For more details of our programmes, please see our prospectus:
Spencer Jordan writes: "One of the great things about creative writing is that it forms its own unique relationship with each and every writer. That’s what makes creative writing such an exhilarating experience. As members of the School of English, our students become members of a rich and rewarding academic community that includes subjects from film and archaeology, to philosophy and music. Bringing these wider interests into your writing, allowing your practice to bridge disciplines and genres, is one of the key benefits from studying with us at Nottingham."
"I was born and brought up in the East Midlands so perhaps it's no surprise that my first novel, Journeys in the Dead Season, was set in the landscape in which I grew up. Yet the writing also quickly became an exploration of my own interests in history and memory. It also allowed me to explore techniques I’d picked up from writers like W. G. Sebald and Kazuo Ishiguro with their claustrophobic first person worlds. What I quickly learnt was that writing is a research technique in its own right, a way of understanding more about the world. These are some of the things I bring into my teaching, whether at undergraduate or doctoral level."
Posted on Thursday 15th January 2015