Our staff
Dr Kerry Featherstone
Tel: +44 01509 222928
Role: Lecturer in English
Email: K.Featherstone@lboro.ac.uk
Room QQ.007,John Hardie, East Park
Publications
My research interests are in contemporary travel writing (particularly Bruce Chatwin and Nicolas Bouvier) and globalisation; contemporary French and British poetry; and the pedagogy of creative writing. I'm currently working on a guide to Chatwin for the 'Writers and their Work' series, and The Case of Guatemalan Scotch, a monograph on contemporary travel writing and globalisation. I'm also translating Ingrid Thobois' novel Le Roi d'Afghanistan ne nous a pas mariés. In 2007 I co-edited Words & Things, a resource for teaching creative writing based on museum objects and artworks.
I teach on the following undergraduate modules: 'Ram, Raj, Radcliffe'; 'Beginning to Blur: South Asian Writers After Independence'; 'Elephants and Engines: An Introduction to Creative Writing'; 'Maps and Motors: The Writing Portfolio' and 'An Unexpected Light: Writing Afghanistan'.
I am the convenor of the MA in Creative Writing, and I teach 'The Writer and the Writing Industries', 'Perspectives' and the creative writing section of 'Research Methods'. I am interested in supervising doctoral work, either as academic study or creative sumbission, on travel writing, contemporary poetry, and French literature and culture.