Director of the Centre: Graham Mort, Senior Lecturer, Department of English & Creative Writing

Graham is a distance learning specialist and designed and ran the British Council Crossing Borders mentoring scheme for African writers (2001-2006).  He was the UK adviser and designer for the British Council Beyond Borders literature festival (Kampala 2005), designed and piloted Radiophonics, a new British Council radio-writing project in East/West Africa, and was a co-applicant on Moving Manchester. Other academic research has focused on emergent African writing, eLearning and the pedagogy of Creative Writing. He has published seven collections of poetry and also writes short fiction and radio drama.
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/english/profiles/625/

Director of Web Development: Lee Horsley, Senior Lecturer, Department of English & Creative Writing

Lee has worked increasingly in recent years on web design and eLearning in relation to creative writing pedagogy and interdisciplinary, transcultural uses of virtual space.  Her research work focuses on crime fiction as a vehicle for counter-cultural protest and socio-political critique (The Noir Thriller, 2001; Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction, 2005); she is co-editing The Blackwell Companion to Crime Fiction, which is both cross-cultural in content and cross-disciplinary in its arguments, drawing in the diverse disciplinary affiliations of crime fiction study. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/english/profiles/114/

Muli Amaye, PhD student, Department of English & Creative Writing

Muli has set up a writing partnership and facilitated and project-managed workshops and projects throughout Greater Manchester with various schools and community groups. She is writing (for her Creative Writing PhD) a novel that spans from the 30's and pre-independence Nigeria to current-day Manchester. This research has taken her from the National Archive in London to the Labour History Museum in Manchester; it includes oral accounts from Nigerian women who settled in Manchester in the '50's and '60's and those of family members who live in Sapele, Nigeria. The novel explores memory and consciousness and the effect of migration on second and third generations. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/english/profiles/849/

David Barton, Professor of Language and Literacy, Department of Linguistics and English Language

David is Director of the Lancaster Literacy Research Centre, which is a core partner in the National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy.  His recent publications include Literacy: an introduction to the ecology of written language, Blackwell, 2nd edition, 2007; Models of Adult Learning, Leicester: NIACE, 2006 (with K. Tusting); Beyond Communities Of Practice: Language, Power And Social Context, Cambridge University Press, 2005 (ed. with K. Tusting); Letter writing as a social practice, John Benjamins, 2000 (ed. with N. Hall); and Situated Literacies, Routledge, 2000 (ed. with Mary Hamilton and Roz Ivanic). http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/profiles/50

Robert Crawshaw, Senior Lecturer, Department of European Languages and Cultures

Robert teaches in the Department of European Languages and Cultures, where he specialises in the study of comparative literature and intercultural communication.  He has acted as a consultant to the European Commission and directs the Interculture Project and the ESRC funded Pragmatics and Intercultural Communications Project.  He has also directed the IAS Annual Research Programme 2006-07: Regions and Regionalism In and Beyond Europe. He is part of the project team of Moving Manchester and his current academic interests are mainly in the area of transcultural narratives - writing which defines the experience of crossing cultural boundaries or living between cultures.  http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/profiles/264/4/

Corinne Fowler, Researcher, 'Moving Manchester' Project

Corinne's forthcoming book is called Chasing Tales: travel writing, journalism and the history of British ideas about Afghanistan (Rodopi: Amsterdam and New York). She recently co-edited a special issue of the international journal Journeys on travel writing and ethics and is co-editing a book of essays called Ethics on the move: travel writing in theory and in practice with Charles Forsdick and Ludmilla Kostova. Aside from her interest in the ethics of representation, Corinne has a special interest in diaspora studies, creative writing from Manchester, and the politics of corporate publishing. http://www.literacy.lancs.ac.uk/profiles/626/

Ian Gregory, Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Before coming to Lancaster, Ian was the Associate Director of Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis at the Queens University, Belfast. In September 2006 he joined FASS to lead a new initiative in Digital Humanities. He is on the editorial boards of Social Science History and Historical Methods, is serving his second term as co-chair of the Social Science History Associations's Historical Geography network, and is on the Institutional Board and Technical Steering Committee of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative.  http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/profiles/113/30/ .

Kate Horsley, Teaching Assistant, Department of English & Creative Writing

Kate is the web designer for transculturalwriting.com.  She has taught literature and writing on both sides of the Atlantic and has recently returned from a volunteer teaching stint in Uganda.  She writes both poetry and prose and is currently working on Crimes of the Fever Season, a gothic novel based in nineteenth-century New Orleans, and a Uganda-set novella, The Nightdancers Come to Kisendi. She has worked as Researcher for the Radiophonics project, and has also organised Online Prose and Poetry Workshops on Crossing Borders.  http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/english/profiles/852/

Lindsey Moore, Lecturer, Department of English & Creative Writing

Lindsey works in the field of postcolonial studies, with a particular focus on women's writing, film, and visual media. Her first book, Arab, Muslim, Woman: Voice and Vision in Postcolonial Literature and Film (Routledge, May 2008) discusses a wide range of Arab women's literary and visual texts in English, French and translation from Arabic, using the postcolonial as a frame to problematise feminism and nationalism as well as monolingual and single disciplinary frameworks. She has wider interests in postcolonial, particularly South Asian and British-Asian, literatures, and is beginning research on a new project entitled 'Modernism at the Margins'. With Graham Mort, she was the co-organiser of the Trans-Scriptions series.  http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/english/profiles/526/

Lynne Pearce, Professor of Literary Theory and Women's Writing, Department of English & Creative Writing

Lynne is the Project Director of Moving Manchester:Mediating Marginalities. Her teaching and research have been mainly in the field of feminist literary theory, but with wide-ranging historical and disciplinary interests. Particular thematic concerns have been in 'the politics of reading', feminist re-scriptings of romance, and national / regional literature(s) and identities within the UK. Her most recent books are The Rhetorics of Feminism : Readings in Contemporary Cultural Theory and the Popular Press (Routledge, 2004) and Romance Writing (Polity, 2007).   http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/english/profiles/84/