The group is led by:
Professor Robert Edgar, Professor of Writing and Popular Culture – r.edgar@yorksj.ac.uk
with Dr Keith McDonald, Dr Adam James Smith and Dr Lauren Stephenson
Group members – York St John University:
Dr Rosie Binfield-Smith, Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology
Professor Abi Curtis, Professor of Creative Writing
Professor Robert Edgar, Professor of Writing and Popular Culture
Dr Zoe Enstone, Associate Professor of Literature
Dr Benjamin Garlick, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Geography
Dr Niall Gildea, Lecturer in Literature
Dr Wayne Johnson, Senior Lecturer in Film and Media
Dr Keith McDonald, Associate Professor of Film and Media
John Marland, Senior Lecturer in English
Dr Rob O’Connor, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and Creative Industries
Dr Helen Pleasance, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing
Dr Chris Price, Senior Lecturer in History
Dr Adam Smith, Associate Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature
Dr Lauren Stephenson, Senior Lecturer in Film and Media
Research Students – York St John University:
Alex Cojocaru, Creative Writing
Alex Bestwick, Creative Writing
Lowen Frampton, Literature
Conor Hannon, Creative Writing
Dylan Henty, Film and Media
Bern Packham-Anderson, Creative Writing
Sam Pheby-McGarvey, Creative Writing
Shirley Stephenson, Creative Writing
Mari Yates, Creative Writing
External Members:
Oliver Hambsch, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway
Thomas Mical, Independent Scholar, Nepal
Andy Sandham, Independent Scholar, UK
Dr Alan G. Smith, Independent Scholar, UK
Dr Jamie Stephenson, Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute, UK
Christian Wilken, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany