Professor Carl Tighe
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Job title: Subject Leader Creative Writing
Email: c.tighe@derby.ac.uk
Phone No: 01332 591488
Room: E708 Kedleston Road
Recent publications
Fiction
Druids Hill, a novel, Five Leaves Press, Nottingham, November 2008
ISBN 978-1-905512-55-3 pbk
KssssS a novel, IMPress, Manchester, 2004,
ISBN 0-9538519-2-3 pbk
Supported by funding from the North West Arts Board
Nominated for the Welsh Academy Book of the Year Award
Burning Worm, IMPress, Manchester, 2001,
ISBN 0-9538519-1-5 pbk
Shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award
Winner of the Authors' Club Award
Pax: Variations, IMPress, Manchester, 2000,
ISBN 0-9538519-0-7 pbk
Winner of the City Life Writer of the Year 2000 Award
Rejoice! and Other Stories, Jonathan Cape, London, 1992,
ISBN 0-224-03023-X hbk
Nominated for the David Higham Award
Shortlisted for The Irish Times Fiction Prize
Non Fiction
The Politics of Literature: Poland 1945-89, University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1999
ISBN 0-7083-1524-0 hbk
Online electronic edition agreed 2000
Writing & Responsibility, Routledge, London, 2005
ISBN 0-415-34563-4 pbk
ISBN 0-415-34562-6 hbk
Gdansk: National Identity in the Polish German Borderlands, Pluto Press, London, 1989
ISBN 0-7453-0346-3 hbk ISBN 0-7453-0474-5 pbk
Online electronic edition agreed 2000
Nominated for the Silver PEN Award
The Playwrights' Register, The Welsh Academy/Yr Academi Gymreig, Cardiff, 1984,
ISBN 0-9509 654-0-5 pbk
Faculty: Arts, Design and Technology
School: School of Humanities
Subject Area: Creative Writing
Membership of professional bodies and advisory committees
- PEN
- Writers' Guild of Great Britain
- Editorial / Advisory Board of The Journal of European Studies from 2004
- Elected to Yr Academi Gymreig [The Welsh Academy] 2004
- Humanities Ethics Committee University of Derby
Recent Conferences
- 'Where Violence Leads: Heinrich Boll' Conflict and Identity Research Group Seminar, Nov 2006.
- 'Writing & Responsibility', University of Wales Swansea 21 February 2007
- 'Creative Writing and the Classics', University of Derby Learning & Teaching Conference, Buxton, 2 July 2007 [repeated
- 'Worlds without Writing' PASE Conference, University of Wroclaw, Poland, April 2008.
- 'La Juderia: the Jewish Community of Rhodes', Land and Identity Interdisciplinary Symposium, University of Derby, 16 May 2009.
Undergraduate qualifications
- BA Hons, University of Wales
- MA, University of Wales
- PDESL, Leeds University
- PhD, Manchester University
