Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing
Teaching and supervision
I am Module Leader for:
- The Writer's Journey (undergraduate)
- The Writer's Craft (undergraduate)
- Creative Writing and Critical Thinking (undergraduate)
- Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes (undergraduate)
- Creative Writing and Publishing (undergraduate)
- Writing Genre Fiction (undergraduate)
- MA Dissertation (postgraduate)
- Reading and Writing: Literature of the Anglo-Scottish Borders, 16th to 19thCentury (postgraduate)
I also teach on:
- Renaissance Literature (postgraduate)
- Mythic Literature from Homer to Harry Potter (postgraduate)
- Approaching Literature (postgraduate)
Research
My most recent publication, co-authored with Dr Alison O’Malley Younger is ‘Reivers, Raiders and Revenants: The Haunted Landscapes of the Anglo-Scots Borders’ in Haunted Landscapes: Super-Nature and the Environment (2016) edited by Ruth Heholt and Niamh Downing and published by Rowman & Littlefield.
Publications
Book Section
Younger, Alison and Younger, Colin (2016) The Supernatural Borders: on Reivers, Revenants and Redcaps. In: Haunted Landscapes: Super-Nature and the Environment. Place, Memory, Affect . Rowman & Littlefield, London. ISBN 978-1783488810
Younger, Colin (2013) 'Authenticity and the Border Ballads'. In: Border Crossings: Narration, Nation and Imagination in Scots and Irish Literature and Culture. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne. ISBN 978-1-4438-5229-6
Rushton, Peter (2013) Exile and Suffering in the Construction of Identity: Narratives of Banishment, Exile and Return in 17th and 18th Century Britain and Ireland. In: Border Crossings: Narration, Nation and Imagination in Scots and Itish Literature and Culture. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 29-54. ISBN 978-1-4438-5229-6
Book
Younger, Colin (2015) Spectral Visions: Grim Fairy Tales (ed). CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, University of Sunderland. ISBN 978-1512349900
Younger, Colin (2014) Spectral Visions: The Collection (ed). Spectral Visions Press, University of Sunderland. ISBN 978-1500861285
- Creative writing
- Expressive writing
- Song writing
- Renaissance literature
- Anglo-Scottish borders literature
- Gothic literature
