Professor Carl Tighe

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Job title: Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing

Email: c.tighe@derby.ac.uk
Personal website: www.carltighe.co.uk
Phone No: 01332 591488
Room: E708 Kedleston Road

Recent publications

  • 'Creative Writin @ University: Frequently Asked Questions' www.carltighe.co.uk
  • 'Poland Translated: Post-Communist writing in Poland: A Survey', for the Max Planck Institute [Berlin] special issue of Studies in East European Thought, 2010 no 62:169-195, ISSN:0925-9392 (print version), ISSN: 1573-0948 (electronic version)
  • 'Hungarian Writers in Transition to Democracy: Budapest Diary December 1990', Journal of European Studies, vol 4 No 4, December 2010, ISSN 0047-2441, online ISSN 1740-2379
  • 'Stanisław Lem: Socio-Political Sci-Fi', translated into Turkish as the introduction to a new edition of Stanisław Lem's novel Solaris, part of the new World Classics series, published by Iletisim Publishing, Binbirdirek Meydani Sok. Iletisim Han 7/3, 34122 Cagaloglu Istanbul, Turkey, series edited by novelist and Nobel Prize Winner Orhan Pamuk, Jan 2011. ISBN 13:978-975-470-625-3
  • 'Jan Kochanowski: Polish Poet', Journal of European Studies, September 2012: ISSN 0047-2441, online ISSN 1740-2379
    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

 

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 Derby Jan 2008].
  • '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.
  • 'Hungarian Writers and the Transition to Democracy', ICR Research group, University of Derby, November 2009. 'Creative Writing - The New Classics?' esse conference, Turin, August 2010.
  • 'Poland Translated: Post-Communist writing in Poland: A Survey', ICR Research group, University of Derby, 26 January 2011.
  • 'Creative Writing and Biblical Literacy', Biblical Literacy Conference, Sheffield University June 2011.
  • 'Whatever happened to Little Black Sambo', ICR Research group, University of Derby, 26 October 2011.
  • 'Creative Writing and The Bible', Krakow University PASE Conference, April 2012.
  • 'Creative Writing, Multicultural Society and The Bible', rakow University PASE Conference, April 2012
  • 'Druids: Survivals, Revivals and Traces', ESSE conference Istanbul September 2012.

Undergraduate qualifications

  • BA Hons, University of Wales
  • MA, University of Wales
  • PDESL, Leeds University
  • PhD, Manchester University
  • FHEA, HEA

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