Calum Kerr

Seminars and other presentations

In my roles as academic, writer, publisher, and web-designer I have been asked to deliver a number of individual seminars and presentations and to take part in masterclasses and discussion groups. These are detailed below.

For more information on any of these events, please contact me at the email address on the Home page.

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Research

PhD - Jekyll and Hyde: Rewriting and Hypertext

Conference Papers

Articles and Essays

Academic Bibliography and CV

Seminars

Literature and its readers

Since finishing my PhD I have been presenting a yearly seminar on the Literature and its readers course at the Manchester Metropolitan University. This seminar looks at literary hypertexts and how readers and writers interact with them.

Creative Writing MA

In 2006 I was asked back to the Creative Writing MA at Manchester Metropolitan University to talk about my experiences as a writer of working with computers and the web. This covered the topic of the hypertext I wrote for my PhD, but also my experiences as a publisher and as a web-designer working with publishers, writing groups and other publishers.

Literature Northwest Publishers Network

In 2007 I co-presented a seminar for the Literature Northwest Publishers Network. Aimed at publishers and writers this was an examination of how to make best use of the web and how to avoid the possible problems and pitfalls.

Presentations/Talks

In 2002 I was asked to give a talk to the Marple Arts group and chose to do it on Shakespeare in Performance. I tried to condense all my extensive knowledge on the subject down into 2 hours and mostly succeeded in baffling them. It did, however, serve as a basis, and good practise, for my later teaching in the subject.

Masterclasses / Discussion Groups

Target Training, Manchester

In 1999, Target Training in Manchester ran a series of masterclasses on aspects of publishing, including the new thing called the Internet. Along with staff from Carcanet Press and other Manchester-based publishers, I was invited to serve on the panel.

Manchester University / Manchester Business School

In 2006 I was invited to take part in an informal discussion group looking into the possibility of using Creative Writing teaching as part of the Business School's provision. Although no positive result came from the discussions, it was interesting to see how such a concept might work and it has informed both my teaching and my business writing ever since.

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