Literature, the Arts, Media and Performance

Research Activity

The newly formed LAMP (Literature, Arts, Media, and Performance) research cluster aims to bring together scholars who work on literature in relation to the arts, media, or performance as practitioners, or scholars, or both.

The group highlights media relations by spanning historical periods and media forms. For example, the department has at least seven scholars and practitioners working on literature in performance from medieval times to the present.

Their work ranges from studying ancient religious rituals and festivals (Jo Carruthers) and to staging Renaissance plays in historical settings (Alison Findlay), to writing contemporary plays and hosting competitions for new playwrights (Tajinder Singh Hayer), to writing creative-critical hybrids for theatre (Terry Eagleton; John Schad), creating original music and films (Brian Baker), and probing the ‘Theatre of Sovereignty’ (Arthur Bradley).

Our creative writers have written literature for radio, television, and film (Jenn Ashworth; Paul Farley; Tajinder Singh Hayer; Graham Mort), while our literature scholars examine how literature intersects with and has been adapted to film and television (Brian Baker; Kamilla Elliott; Lindsey Moore; Lynne Pearce; Catherine Spooner) and to fashion (Kamilla Elliott; Catherine Spooner).

Others study literature’s affiliations with the visual arts (Simon Bainbridge; Sarah Corbett; Kamilla Elliott; Keith Hanley; Tony Sharpe; Andrew Tate), while Brian Baker creates palimpsests of canonical literature and original art.

LAMP scholars engage literature and media, from studying the medieval social media of libel (Clare Egan) to creating literature for new media (Jenn Ashworth). Sally Bushell has adapted literature to videogames for pedagogical purposes, while Kamilla Elliott has investigated what is happening to literary texts on mobile software platforms.

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Professor Jenn Ashworth
Professor of Writing

Authors and the World, Creative Writing, Creative-Critical Writing, Digital Humanities, Gothic and Science Fiction, Literature and Religion, Literature, Space and Place, Literature, the Arts, Media and Performance

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Dr Brian Baker
Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing

Creative-Critical Writing, Digital Humanities, Gothic and Science Fiction, Literature, Science and Medicine, Literature, the Arts, Media and Performance

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Dr Jo Carruthers
Senior Lecturer

Creative-Critical Writing, Literature and Religion, Literature, Space and Place, Literature, the Arts, Media and Performance

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Dr Sarah Corbett
Senior Lecturer

Creative Writing, Literature, the Arts, Media and Performance

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Dr Clare Egan
Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern Literature

Digital Humanities, Literature, Space and Place, Literature, the Arts, Media and Performance

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Professor Kamilla Elliott
Professor of Literature and Media

Creative-Critical Writing, Gothic and Science Fiction, Literature, the Arts, Media and Performance

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Professor Alison Findlay
Professor

Digital Humanities, Literature and Religion, Literature, Space and Place, Literature, the Arts, Media and Performance, Shakespeare Programme

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Tajinder Hayer
Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing

Creative Writing, Gothic and Science Fiction, Literature, Science and Medicine, Literature, Space and Place, Literature, the Arts, Media and Performance, Transcultural Writing

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Dr Zoe Lambert
Lecturer

Creative Writing, Literature, Science and Medicine, Literature, the Arts, Media and Performance, Transcultural Writing

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Professor Paul Muldoon
Distinguished Visiting Professor

Creative Writing, Creative-Critical Writing, Literature, Space and Place, Literature, the Arts, Media and Performance

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Professor John Schad
Professor

Creative-Critical Writing, Literature and Religion, Literature, the Arts, Media and Performance

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Professor Catherine Spooner
Professor of Literature and Culture

Creative Writing, Gothic and Science Fiction, Literature, Space and Place, Literature, the Arts, Media and Performance

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Professor Andrew Tate
Professor in Literature, Religion and Aesthetics

Gothic and Science Fiction, Institute for Social Futures Fellow, Literature and Religion, Literature, the Arts, Media and Performance

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Dr Eoghan Walls
Senior Lecturer

Creative Writing, Creative-Critical Writing, Literature, the Arts, Media and Performance

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Literature, the Arts, Media and Performance

Research Activity

Group Members

Professor Jenn Ashworth

Dr Brian Baker

Dr Jo Carruthers

Dr Sarah Corbett

Dr Clare Egan

Professor Kamilla Elliott

Professor Alison Findlay

Tajinder Hayer

Dr Zoe Lambert

Professor Paul Muldoon

Professor John Schad

Professor Catherine Spooner

Professor Andrew Tate

Dr Eoghan Walls

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