Francis Spufford
Position held:
Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing
Phone:
+44 (0)20 7717 2954
Email:
f.spufford (@gold.ac.uk)
Room 312,
Warmington Tower,
New Cross,
London SE14 6NW
BA in English Literature, University of Cambridge, 1985; chief publisher’s reader, Chatto & Windus Ltd, 1987-90; full-time writer, 1990-2004; writer in residence, University College London, 2004-5; Royal Literary Fund Fellow, Anglia Ruskin University (Cambridge) 2005-07; at Goldsmiths since 2007.
Teaching
I lead one of the general workshops on the Creative Writing MA course, and also supervise for the Creative Writing PhD.
Professional activities
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; Trustee of the Science Fiction Foundation; Judge, 2007 Arthur C Clarke Award.
Research interests
Children's literature; science fiction; economics as a form of storytelling; theology; the interpenetration of fiction and non-fiction.
Selected publications
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Red Plenty (Faber, forthcoming)
- The Ends of the Earth (ed., with Elizabeth Kolbert; Granta, 2007)
- Backroom Boys (Faber, 2003)
- The Child That Books Built (Faber, 2002)
- Cultural Babbage: Technology, Time and Invention (ed., with Jenny Uglow; Faber, 1996)
- I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination (Faber, 1996)
- The Chatto Book of Cabbages and Kings: Lists in Literature (ed.; Chatto & Windus, 1990)