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Professor Deryn Rees-Jones B.A.(Hons), M.A., Ph.D

Professor English

    Research

    Research Interest 1

    She has particular interests in the following areas: gender and women's writing, twentieth-century women's poetry, especially Sylvia Plath and Elizabeth Bishop; theories of creativity; psychoanalysis; poetry and science; creative writing.

    Research Grants

    Yemen in Conflict: Popular literary heritage as expression of conflict and tool for conflict resolution

    BRITISH ACADEMY (UK)

    January 2019 - December 2020

    The House of Stories: Paula Rego's Feminist Making

    LEVERHULME TRUST (UK)

    September 2016 - August 2018

    Poetry and Science: Exploration of materials at the Natural History Museum, London.

    ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL

    September 2003 - December 2003

    Exploration of poetry and science: "The Invisible World".

    ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND (UK)

    January 2005 - May 2005