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Shelby Penman


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Lecturer in English: Creative and Professional Writing

I hold a first-class BA (Hons) English degree from University of Sunderland. I have been teaching at the University, in various capacities, since 2019. I teach BA (Hons): Creative and Professional Writing and MA English Studies with a background in teaching creative writing and literature.

I also hold two postgraduate qualifications in education (Post-Compulsory Education and Secondary English) and have Qualified Teacher Status. 

I am currently a PhD researcher. My topic is Metempsychosis in the Novels of David Foster Wallace. My research areas of interest are: intertextuality, Irish literature, American literature, Postmodernism, Modernism, and the New Sincerity movement.



Teaching and supervision

I am currently module leader for:

  • CPW105 The Business of Writing
  • CPW201 Texts and Contexts
  • CPW202 Regional Writing: Literature
  • CPW204 Submitting Prose and Poetry
  • ELL392 The Play's the Thing: Shakespeare's Dramatic Genres
  • LITM65 The Global City: Modern To Postmodern
  • CWR304 Writing the Novel (interim)

I also provide teaching, support and feedback for the following modules:

  • CPW101 Reading and Literature
  • ELL370 Advanced Study (English Literature)

Research interests for potential research students

Intertextuality, Irish literature, American literature, Postmodernism, Modernism, and the New Sincerity movement.
  • Intertextuality
  • Irish literature
  • American literature
  • Postmodernism
  • Modernism
  • New Sincerity movement
  • Pedagogy

Last updated 06 June 2023