Dr Helen Palmer
Contact
- Email: h.palmer@kingston.ac.uk
- Location: Penrhyn Road
- Faculty: Kingston School of Art
- School: School of Creative and Cultural Industries
- Department: Department of Humanities
About
I am a senior lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing, working at the intersections of philosophy, speculative writing and critical theory. I am currently module leader of From Prospero to Potter: Reading Through Theory English Literature); Content, Form and Creativity (Creative Writing); and Radical Imaginations (Humanities Foundation degree). I also teach on Writing that Works and Introduction to Creative Writing. My research interests include the avant-garde, queer performance, critical theory, gender, the body, synaesthesia, intersectional feminism, utopias/dystopias, Afrofuturism and new materialism. I am the author of Deleuze and Futurism: A Manifesto for Nonsense (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Queer Defamiliarisation: Writing, Mattering, Making Strange, (forthcoming 2019, Edinburgh University Press). I have poetry published in The Minnesota Review and am currently writing a feminist version of Ulysses set in Blackpool in 1999.
Academic responsibilities
Senior Lecturer
Qualifications
- PhD, Goldsmiths University of London
- MA, Goldsmiths University of London
- MA, University of Glasgow