Calum Kerr
Conference Papers
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I have delivered a number of different conference papers, some scholarly, some creative. Below is a list of the papers and their topics with a links to download the abstracts from the papers.
Emerging from a combination of work being done on my PhD and my experiences of Creative Writing teaching in Further Education. This paper looked at pedagogical practise and some of the exercises that could be used to improve the standard of students' work in Higher Education. |
Other Related Pages PhD - Jekyll and Hyde: Rewriting and Hypertext |
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This paper was written following my completion of my PhD earlier in the year and looked at the process of undertaking the still novel concept of a creative writing PhD. It also looked at how the PhD had affected me as writer, both during and after the period of study. It also tried to make suggestions for the future of the Creative Writing PhD. |
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This paper came from an exchange that happened in a Further Education Creative Writing class I was teaching. A student read out a piece which contained elements of the self-referentiality, inter-textuality and authorial intrusion that are hallmarks of postmodernism. Following a discussion with the class about the nature of postmodernism, it occurred to me to wonder what would happen if you attempted to write a story without planning a plot or any characters, but purely trying to meet the criteria which would make the story postmodern. The result was a short story called 'A Memory' which forms half of this paper. The other half provides a writer's-eye look at the process of creating such a story. |
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This paper was based upon my PhD studies and was written for a special technology related conference for the National Association of Writers in Education. It looks at the tensions between the use of technology and the requirements of creativity in the production of my Jekyll and Hyde hypertext, and the ways in which they both helped and hindered each other. |
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