Dr Emily Critchley
Lecturer in English and Creative Writing for English
Tel: 020 8331 9882
Email: e.j.e.critchley@gre.ac.uk
Office: King William 234
Office Hours
Thursday 2-3pm
Courses
English In World Literatures
Writing London
Writing Poetry & Prose
Qualifications:
BA (Hons) in English Literature & Language - University of Oxford
MA in Modern & Contemporary Poetry - University of Bristol
PhD in American Poetry & Phenomenology - University of Cambridge
Biography
Dr. Emily Critchley is an Early Career Researcher who has already earned an international reputation as both a writer and critic, specialising in experimental literature. Her research has been rated at the international level with over fifteen published articles and poetry collections. She has been performing her work across the UK and in the USA since 2000. She has also organised two three-day, international conferences for other experimental writers, at the universities of Cambridge and Greenwich respectively.
Conferences Organised
Greenwich Cross-Genre Festival
ICAS, the University of Greenwich, July 14-16, 2010
http://www.openned.com/blog/2010/2/14/university-of-greenwich-womens-innovative-poetry-cross-genre.html
Cambridge Festival for Contemporary Experimental Women's Poetry
University of Cambridge, 2006
http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal
Reviews of my work
Keith Tuma, Chicago Review: British Poetry Edition, 53:1 (Spring 2007)
JC Times Literary Supplement
Steve Spence, Stride Magazine, review of Love / All That / & OK (Spring 2011)
Marianne Morris, The Claudius App,1:1(Summer 2011)‘A Starling for Morning’: critical irony and gender in Emily Critchley’s Love / All That / & OK
Research/scholarly interests
Modern and contemporary experimental writing
American literature
Phenomenology
Feminism
Political writing
Research Output
Recent Publications
Guest editor of the forthcoming issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry: on the Greenwich Cross-Genre Festival(September 2011)
‘"Moi aussi, Marianne," or Moving the Targets, being a crypto-ironic response, etc.’ The Claudius App (August 2011) http://theclaudiusapp.com/1-updates-critchley.html
‘This method is / not personal it’s just different to yours, ok. Don’t worry.’ Marianne Morris’ TUTU MUSE and ‘the dream of [cultural] authenticity’, in Legacies of Modernism:The State of British Poetry Today (forthcoming from Manchester University Press)
‘Rosmarie Waldrop, the violence of narrative, and other knowledge systems’ (forthcoming in The Issues:in Contemporary Culture and Aesthetics)
‘We live on buoyant fragments’ (Andrea Brady): A further selection of American writers from the Greenwich Cross-Genre Festival, Cambridge Literary Review, ed. Boris Jardine and Lydia Wilson, 1:5 (May, 2011)
‘A selection of North American women writers from the Greenwich Cross-Genre Festival and some thoughts about their work’, Cambridge Literary Review, 1:4 (Michaelmas, 2010); pp.33-43 http://www.cambridgeliteraryreview.org/volume-ii/issue-4/
‘Lyn Hejinian's 'Faustienne Beings-With', Stress Fractures, ed., Tom Chivers (London: Penned in the Margins, 2010), pp.55-72
Leslie Scalapino's 'alternative ways of seeing', Delirious Hem, eds, Cara Benson, Elizabeth Bryant, Cathy Wagner (September, 2010) http://delirioushem.blogspot.com/2010/09/tribute-to-leslie-scalapino-day-1-of-4.html
Extended review of Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip in HOW2 Journal, #3:3 (2009) http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/vol_3_no_3/review/critchley.html
Commissioned review of Magenta Soul Whip in The Poetry Project Journal, ed. Corina Copp, #221
'[D]oubts, Complications and Distractions'; Rethinking the Role of Women in Language Poetry', Hot Gun! Journal, ed. Josh Stanley, #1 (Summer 09) 'pp. 29-49'
'Post-Marginal Positions: Women & the UK Experimental/Avant-Garde Poetry Community' moderated by Cathy Wagner, Jacket, #34 (Oct 2007)
'Dilemmatic Boundaries: constructing a poetics of thinking', Intercapillary Space, ed. Edmund Hardy (November 2006)
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:LlJoHzeTsCQJ:intercapillaryspace.blogspot.com/2006/11/dilemmatic-boundaries-constructing_21.html+%27Dilemmatic+Boundaries&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-a&source=www.google.co.uk
A conference overview and introductory remarks to the Festival for Contemporary Experimental Women's Poetry, How2 journal, #3:1 (Summer 2007) http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/vol_3_no_1/cambridge/index.html
Creative Output
Some Curious Thing (Eggbox, forthcoming 2012)
Sonnets for Luke (holdfirepress, forthcoming 2012)
This is not a True Thing (Intercapillary, Oct, 2011)
IMAGINARYLOVEPOEMS (Corrupt press, Dec, 2011)
Love / All That / & OK (Penned in the Margins Press, Jan 2011)
Hopeful for Love Are Th'Impoverish'd of Faith (Torque Press, March 2010)
Audio collaboration with Caroline Bergvall in Delirious Hem (Dec, 2009)
Who handles one over the backlash (Norfolk: Oystercatcher Press, 2008)
Of all the Surprises (Switzerland: Dusie, 2007)
When I say I Believe Women... (London: badpress, 2006)
How to Make Millions (Cambridge: Arehouse, 2004)
The Dirt Glitch Land Alter Affair (Cambridge: Arehouse, 2004)
Collaborations
‘She thinks it is a combination’: recording, performance and visual art pieces published in MaintenantIX Camarade anthology, with Tamarin Norwood (15 Oct, 2011)
‘Telephone conversation’: piece / installation, with the conceptual writer Holly Pester, Surrey Festival (21st May, 2011)
Anthologised in
Bloodaxe Anthology of Young UK Poets 2012,ed. Nathan Hamilton (Bloodaxe, 2012); the Lung Jazz: Young British Poets For Oxfam Anthology (Cinnamon Press, 2012); MaintenantIX Camarade, ed. Steven Fowler (red ceilings press, October 2011); The Rialto: Younger Poets Feature #70, ed. Nathan Hamilton (October 2010); Hi Zero #5, ed. Joe Luna (August 2011); Sous les Pavés, ed. Micah Robbins (May 2011); Surrey Festival Anthology, ed. Amy De’Ath (May 2011); Halfcircle #3, ed. Thomas Graham (May 2011); Other Room Anthology, eds. Tom Jenks, Scott Thurston & James Davies (April 2011); Eighteens, ed. Mark Cobley (The Knives Forks & Spoons Press, February 2011); Damn the Caesars, ed. Richard Owens (July 2010); Black Box Manifold, 1:5, ed. Alex Houen (July 2010); Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets, ed. Carrie Etter (Shearsman Press, March 2010); Cambridge Literary Review #1 & #3, eds. Boris Jardine & Lydia Wilson; argotistonline, ed. Jeffrey Side; onedit #13 , ed. Tim Atkins; Delirious Hem, eds. Cara Benson, Elizabeth Bryant, Cathy Wagner (Dec, 2009); Openned Journal, eds. Steve Willey & Alex Davies (2008); Default, 5, ed. James Cummins (2008); Pilot series #2, ed. Matt Chambers (2007); The Paper #9, ed. Christine & David Kennedy(Sept 2007); How2Journal #3:3 & #2:4, ed. Redell Olsen, Archive of the Now, ed. Andrea Brady; dusie #3, ed.Susana Gardner; Skald #23, eds. Ian Davidson, Zoë Skoulding and Kelvin Corcoran (2006); in blossoms atop reeds it flares, ed. Chris Brownsword (Broken Compass Press, 2006); Plantarachy #2, ed. jUStin!katKO; Quid #15, ed. Keston Sutherland & These Pages are Marked by Women, ed. Emily Critchley (Cambridge, 2006)
Recent and forthcoming public readings
Blue Bus, London, 18 October 2011
MaintenantIX Camarade, Rich Mix, London, 15 October 2011
ConVersify: Poetry, Politics and Form, The University Of Edinburgh and The Scottish Poetry Library, September 2011
Voewood Festival, Norfolk, August 2011
Dismantled Cabaret, Chats Palace, London, July 2011
Penned in the Margins reading: John Wilkinson/Iain Sinclair/Rob Stanton/Emily Critchley, London June 2011
Runnymede Literary Festival, March 12, 2011
Soda Pictures Allen Ginsberg Reading Event, Poetry Café, March 5th, 2011
Launch of Love / All That / & OK, London, Feb 16, 2011
Parasol Unit, London, Jan, 2011
The Situation Room, London, Nov 2010
The Other Room, Manchester, Oct 2010
Greenwich Cross-Genre Festival, London, July 2010
Launch of Cambridge Literary Review, 3, Cambridge, June 2010
Launch of Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets, London, April 2010
Dartington College of Performing Arts, Cornwall, Dec 2009
Cambridge reading, Cambridge, Oct 2009
Chlorine reading, Brighton, Aug 2009
Xing the Line: Launch of onedit, 13, London, July 2009