About the Contributors
Simon de Bourcier is the author of Pynchon and Relativity: Narrative Time in Thomas Pynchon's Later Novels, forthcoming from Continuum. He gained his BA from Trinity College, Cambridge, his MA from Anglia Ruskin University, and his PhD from the University of East Anglia. He is a member of the British Society for Literature and Science and the Cambridge Science and Literature Reading Group, and a founder member of the UK Pynchon Network.
Keelan Crampsey is a recent graduate of Goldsmiths, University of London, receiving an MA in Modern Literature. Originally from San Francisco, he now divides his time between the Bay Area and London. He is currently at work on two unforgiving tasks: writing his first novel, and developing an Arts Journal.
Eleanor Dare is an artist and lecturer in Arts Computing at Goldsmiths, Department of Computing, where she teaches a master’s module, Programming for Artists. Her practice centres upon the meaningful capabilities computation has to offer the arts. Her doctoral research was primarily concerned with programming situated and responsive book forms, or 'intelligent books'. More recently Eleanor has been working with biosensors in projects concerned with narrative, memory and the limits of symbolic representation.
Francis Gilbert read English at Sussex University, achieved a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education at Cambridge University in English and Drama, and an M.A. in Creative Writing, where he was taught by Malcolm Bradbury and Rose Tremain. Since the early 1990s, he has taught in a number of comprehensives in London; he currently teaches part-time and is working on a PhD in Creative Writing and Education at Goldsmiths. He published I’m A Teacher, Get Me Out Of Here in 2004, which became a best-seller and was serialised on Radio 4. Teacher On The Run (2005), Yob Nation (2006), Parent Power (2007) and Working The System (2009) followed. His first novel, The Last Day of Term, was published in June 2011.
Emma Grundy Haigh is currently working on a PhD thesis at Goldsmiths, where she has also been a Visiting Tutor for the English and Comparative Literature department teaching critical theory. She has published and presented on Cold War and early twentieth-century spy fiction, Lacanian psychoanalysis, genre, popular narrative, twentieth-century fiction and philosophy. She is currently working on an article about the changing perceptions of the figure of the spy and the adverse other.
Jenny Kingsley is a short story writer, poet and journalist living in London. Her work has appeared in American and British publications, including The Art Book, The Berkshire Eagle, The Blackmore Vale, Cassone, The Cinnamon Press, The Daily Telegraph, Decanto, Petits Propos Culinaires and South Bank Poetry. Jenny has a BSc in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics, an MA in Government from Georgetown University and an MA in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths, University of London. Please visit Jenny at jennykingsley.com.
Kate Miller has been at Goldsmiths from 2007 to 2011, researching contemporary poetry, and teaching. A graduate of Cambridge and London Universities, she has worked as an artist and writer in education, collaborating with urban and rural communities on a number of landscape projects. She will publish her first collection of poems in 2012.
Helen Palmer teaches modern literature and critical theory at Goldsmiths, and is writing her PhD on Gilles Deleuze. Her thesis analyses Deleuze’s critique of representation and subjectivity alongside Russian and Italian futurist manifestos, interrogating the treatment of paradox, temporality and the materiality of language. She also writes poetry. She is co-editor of the journal GLITS-e and is part of the team that runs GLITS, the Goldsmiths Literature Seminar
Amy Rushton is a PhD student and tutor in the English and Comparative Literature department at Goldsmiths. Her research concerns the portrayal of modernity in the contemporary African novel. Amy obtained a Masters degree from Goldsmiths and previously studied at the University of Manchester. She is also a steering group member of the Postgraduate Contemporary Women's Writing Network (www.pgcwwn.org).
Danielle Tran is currently a PhD candidate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, researching ‘Post-TRC South African Writing and the Trauma of Apartheid’. She has published articles on colonial discourse theory and reviewed selected South African texts for journals including Black Diaspora, African Identities and Polyvocia.