Research and Teaching

Research projects and interests:

  • Poetry in Digital Media – PhD Project
  • Comics and the poetic – research interest
  • Alternate Timelines – my comics and cartooning scholarship blog

Teaching

  • Guest lecturing – Liverpool John Moores ‘Digital Writing’ module 2018-21
  • Electric Dreams digital creative writing workshops (online and in Newcastle)
  • Newcastle University – module tutor on Close Reading module, 2020-21

Resource and content creation

  • NCLA Archive video recording and editing
  • Recording John Challis interviews with Bloodaxe Books editor Neil Astley – http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/?p=3621
  • Sketchnoting at NCLA events and the ‘Individual and Community’ panel at Transitions 2021
  • Contributor to the ‘Poetry Zines and Journals’ special collection on the UK Web Archive

Conference participation and organising

  • Organising team (technical lead): Newcastle Poetry Festival, 2015-2023
  • Co-organiser: Text and Textuality international conference. Durham University / Online. 15-16 July 2021
  • Panellist: ‘Poetry in the Digital Age’, Northern Poetry Symposium, Newcastle, 9 May 2017
  • Panellist: ‘Expanding Your Digital Horizons’, Inpress Festival of Publishing, London, 27 January 2017
  • Presenter: ‘Creative Digital Interventions into Poetry’, Carcanet at 50 conference, John Rylands Library, Manchester, 17 January 2018
  • Presenter: ‘Poetry and Exploratory Interfaces’, BEYOND Conference, Edinburgh, 20-21 November 2019
  • Presenter: ‘The Stuff of Dreams: Objects and Disorientation in the work of Julie Doucet and Anders Nilsen’ Transitions: New Directions in Comics Studies, Birkbeck University of London / Online, 8-10 April 2021
  • Presenter: ‘Audio Experimentation: Instructions for a Butterfly and Little Light’ (with Kate Sweeney), MIX Conference, Bath Spa University / Online, 3-6 July 2021
  • Presenter: ‘The Poetry Lab: Digital and tactile interactions with poetic texts’, Corroding the Now: Poetry and Science, Birkbeck University of London, 12-13 April 2019

Articles and blog posts

  • https://poetry.ncl.ac.uk/redactionsredirections/
  • https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2020/04/poetry-mobile-apps-.html