PhD Creative Writing

Durham University

The research interests of the Creative Writing team within the department of English Studies lie in a broad range of nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first-century writing from English-language traditions and from literature in English-language translation. We welcome Creative Writing PhDs in poetry, the short story, innovative fiction, narrative non-fiction, memoir and life-writing, and hybrid forms of writing (the lyric essay, autofiction, conceptual poetry).Recent publications by members of the Creative Writing department include works exploring identity and self-expression affect in writing, including manifestations of shame in contemporary poetry feminist writing and theory activist texts musicality and orality in poetry form in performance and form on the page race and lyric subjectivity hip hop studies elegy epistolary writing uncreative writing, repurposing and appropriation.