Dr Adam Dalton

Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing

Adam Dalton

  • School Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries

  • Department School of Arts

  • Location London

Research activities

Recent academic publications:

- ‘Goingin circles: How and why are particular theoretical, literary and film-basedattempts to resist, subvert or unravel the Hero’s Journey still problematic,problematised or only partial in their success?’

- ‘Geo-politicalvampirism: How and why has Western literary scholarship appropriated and thenre-mythologised the socio-historical origins of the vampire?’

- ‘Whatis so fabulous about Smaug?’, in Barbini, F. (ed.) Not the Fellowship:Dragons Welcome. Edinburgh: LunaPress.

- The Satanic in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Edinburgh: Luna Press.


Current Teaching

Creative Writing - genre writing specialist, speculative poetry

Literary Theory and Analysis

English Language Teaching (ELT)

Media Management (marketing, project management and social media)

PhD supervisor - English Literature and Creative Writing


Biography

A J Dalton (https://www.ajdalton.eu) is a prize-winning SFF writer. He has published theEmpire of the Saviours trilogy with Gollancz Orion, and various collectionswith Kristell Ink and Luna Press. He also runs the online storytellingcommunity https://www.creativewritinghq.com - all welcome! He lives with a monstrously oppressivecat named Cleopatra.

Adam has taught English Literature and Creative Writing at Middlesex University since 2019, and before that at Falmouth University, Manchester Metropolitan University, and the University of Manchester. He has been the Programme Leader for the BA English and MA Media Management.

He currently supervises six PhD students, in both English Literature and Creative Writing (fantasy, crime, speculative fiction, sci-fi, and YA literature). He is the External Examiner for the MAs in Creative Writing at Edinburgh Napier University.

Publications

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