Ardashir Vakil

Staff details

Position

Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing

Department

English and Creative Writing

Email

a.vakil (@gold.ac.uk)

Novelist and short story writer including two award-winning books – Beach Boy (Penguin, 1998) One Day (Penguin, 2003).

Ardashir Vakil (Ardu) has been teaching Creative Writing at Goldsmiths since 2006, teaching BA, MA, MPhil and PhD students. He started a flagship MA with the Education Department called ‘Writer\Teacher’ (now ‘Creative Writing with Education’) which brings together his skills and experiences as a teacher and a writer.

His stories have been anthologized, read on the radio and published in prestigious journals. His most recent short story ‘Laptop’ featured in The Iowa Review. Several of his articles on pedagogy and practical advice for teachers and students of Creative Writing have been published by the International Journal of English Teaching, Changing English: Studies In Culture and Education.

Academic qualifications

BA Eng Lit, Magdalene, Cambridge University 1985
PGCE, English, Institute of Ed, Univ of London 1987

Teaching and supervision

MA Creative Writing
MA Creative Writing and Education
MA Children's Literature

Research interests

Indian Literature in English, Auto-fiction, short stories and pedagogical issues related to the teaching of Creative Writing

Featured publications

1998: Beach Boy
Novel : http://Penguin ISBN 0-241-13760-8

2003: One Day
Novel : http//Penguin ISBN 0140299734

2013: Darius and Xerxes
Short Story : Raritan: A Quarterly Review, xxxill(1), pp. 1-15

2015: Last Time
Short Story: Raritan, XXXIV(4), pp. 133-153. ISSN 0275-1607

2017: Laptop
Short Story: Laptop. Iowa Review, 47(2), pp. 117-140. ISSN 0021-065X

Grants and awards

1979: Connections
Goldsmith-Lassale Partnership Innovation Fund -teaching exchange

Publications and research outputs

Book

Vakil, Ardashir (Ardu) . 2006. Eva. Edizione Corraini and Illystories.

Vakil, Ardashir (Ardu) . 2003. One Day. Penguin. ISBN 0140299734

Vakil, Ardashir (Ardu) . 2003. 'One Day'. London: Penguin Group (Hamish Hamilton). ISBN 0-241-14132-X

Book Section

Vakil, Ardashir (Ardu) . 2007. Chapter 7. In: Betsy Karel, ed. Bombay Jadoo. Gottingen, Germany: Steidl, pp. 83-84. ISBN 978-3-86521-376-1

Vakil, Ardashir (Ardu) . 1999. The Whole Biryani. In: , ed. Fourth Estate.

Article

Vakil, Ardashir (Ardu) . 2017. Laptop. Iowa Review, 47(2), pp. 117-140. ISSN 0021-065X

Vakil, Ardashir (Ardu) . 2015. Last Time. Raritan, XXXIV(4), pp. 133-153. ISSN 0275-1607

Vakil, Ardashir (Ardu) . 2014. Impromptu. Raritan, XXXIII(4), pp. 112-126. ISSN 0275-1607

Conference or Workshop Item

Vakil, Ardashir (Ardu) . 2012. 'Jhumpa Lahiri and the influence of Homer'. In: Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Conflict in Modern Fiction since 1989. British Academy, United Kingdom 5-6 July.

Broadcast

Vakil, Ardashir (Ardu) . 2008. 'Towers of Silence'.

Media engagements

2008: Towers of Silence
BBC Radio 4- Research on site at the Parsi funeral grounds in Mumbai.

Conferences and talks

2012: Jhumpa Lahiri and Homer
'Jhumpa Lahiri and the influence of Homer'. In: Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Fiction since 1989. British Academy, United Kingdom 5-6 July.

Articles related to Teaching Creative Writing

Vakil, Ardashir. 2008. 'Teaching Creative Writing'. Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 15(2), pp. 157-167. ISSN 1358-684X

Vakil, Ardashir . 2013. 'Yearning and its Uses'. Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 20(1), pp. 34-45. ISSN 1358-684X

Vakil, Ardashir. 2013. Truthful Fictions:How Dreams Can Help You Write. Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 20(4), pp. 415-427. ISSN 1358-684X