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.