English and Creative Writing Alumni

 

Nicky Cashman

Doing my PhD in the English Department has been a fantastic experience.

 

 

 

Eliza Granville

Eliza Granville’s internationally-acclaimed novel Gretel and the Dark, published in February 2014, emerges from her PhD research at Aberystwyth University.

 

 

 

 

Claudine Conway

Claudine is convinced that her English Degree has helped her to find a job which encourages critical thinking and offers a degree of self-determination.

 

 

 

David Towsey

Since his graduation in 2014, David has published 'The Walkin' Trilogy' which connects a number of genres and twists classic genres thus making for a fascinating read.

 

 

 

Mary Chadwick

The transferrable skills learned during her PhD at Aberystwyth, have helped Mary to secure a position as Postdoctoral Research Assistant on The Anne Clifford Project.

 

 

 

Tyler Keevil

Tyler is an award winning novelist. He is also involved with screenwriting and filmmaking; and among others he organises and leads writing workshops or one-to-one mentoring schemes.

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Ian Middlebrook

Ian coordinates Victorian Literature at Bangor University. He organises postgraduate seminars, lectures on the Romantic period in Britain and supervises dissertations in the area of his research interests.

 

 

 

Kate Hamer

Kate has been called 'a distinctive new voice in British fiction' after publishing her debut novel The Girl in the Red Coat with Faber.

 

 

 

 

 

Andrew Rayment

Andrew started publishing articles while still studying his PhD at Aberystwyth which lead to a solid grounding in his postmodern, psychoanalytical and multimodal approach to literature and visual art. He now teaches at Chiba University in Japan.

 

 

 

Katherine Stansfield

Katherine is a published poet and fiction writer. Studying at Aberystyth gave her the skills she needed to explore and experiment.

 

 

 

Chris Morgan

Chris is the Vice Principal for Academics in a College in Annapolis, USA. He feels that studying at Aberystwyth has not only contributed to his successful career path but also enormously enriched his life.

 

 

 

Seth Clabough

Seth Clabough is a published poet, scholar, and fiction writer.  He completed a PhD in English at Aberystwyth University in 2011.