Prof Susan Rowland
Reader in English and Jungian Studies
Recent Publications
Tel: 020 8331 8963
Email: s.a.rowland@gre.ac.uk
Office: King William 225
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I joined the School of Humanities & Social Sciences in 1996 after gaining my Ph.D from the University of Newcastle on Jung and contemporary novels. My research is mainly into Jung, literary theory and literature. This has resulted in three books, C.G. Jung and Literary Theory (Palgrave, 1999), Jung: A Feminist Revision (Polity, 2002), and Jung as a Writer (Routledge, 2005), as well as numerous papers and articles. In 2006 I organised a multi-disciplinary Jungian conference here at the university called Psyche and Imagination, July 6-9th 2006. I supervise doctoral students and teach on the MA by Research in English.
In addition to augmenting psychoanalytic theory by developing Jung and the arts, I research detective fiction. My book, From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell (Palgrave, 2000), is a useful study of culture and the novel form. All my research is used to enhance my teaching in such areas as literary theory, modern fiction, women’s writing, poetry, history of the novel and studies in literary genres. As well as core courses such as CTP Poetry and Fictions, Literary Forms of Representation on the BA English degree, I have a specialist third year course on new literature, ecocriticism, literary theory and Jungian ideas called ‘Theory and Contemporary Writing’.