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Patrick Wright

Associate Lecturer in Arts and Humanities, Open University, The Open University
Patrick Wright received his PhD in English from the University of Manchester in 2007. He also holds two MAs, in English and in Creative Writing, from the same institution.

His AHRC-funded doctoral thesis focused on the sublime within a broader discourse on the sacred, making use of feminist and psychoanalytic theory. This project was supervised by Professor Terry Eagleton and Dr Anke Bernau.

He has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, and he has a pamphlet, Nullaby, published by Eyewear. His full debut collection, Shadows on the Ceiling, will be published in 2020 by the same publisher.

His poems have been published in several anthologies and magazines, most recently Agenda, The Reader, Iota, The High Window, and Wasafiri.

He is studying towards a second PhD in Creative Writing, focusing on innovative ekphrastic responses to modern art, supervised by Siobhan Campbell and Jane Yeh.

Research interests include literature from 1800 to the present, modern and contemporary poetry, art history, place writing, and issues of genre and translation.

He teaches on A111, A105, A233, and A335, and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

He has also taught English, at the University of Manchester and the University of Salford, and Art History and Visual Culture, at the Manchester Metropolitan University.

He is especially interested to hear from students looking to pursue literature or creative writing routes.

Email address: [email protected]

Economy

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