Francis Spufford

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

• 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)