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Personal Profile For Dr Tessa Hadley
Senior Lecturer: English and Creative Studies. School of Humanities and Cultural Industries.
PhD [University of the West of England], PGCE [Cambridge], MA [Bath Spa University College], BA(Hons) [Cambridge].
Personal Statement:
<p>Tessa Hadley teaches both English and Creative Studies. Her special interests in English are the novelists, particularly Jane Austen and Henry James, and also early twentieth century writers including Elizabeth Bowen, Jean Rhys and Katherine Mansfield. She teaches courses on The Short Story and Writing and Politics on the MA in Creative Writing. Tessa has written a book on Henry James,<em>Henry James and the Imagination of Pleasure,</em> published by Cambridge University Press in 2002, also articles on Henry James, Elizabeth Bowen and Thomas Mann. She reviews regularly for the London Review of Books.p>
<p>She has also written three novels, <em>Accidents in the Home,</em> published by Jonathan Cape in February 2002, and by Holt in the US (this was longlisted for the Guardian First Book award); <em>Everything Will Be All Right,</em> Holt 2003, Cape 2004 (shortlisted for the Encore Award); and The Master Bedroom, Cape and Holt, 2007 (longlisted for the Welsh Book of the Year award). She has had stories published in The New Yorker, Granta, and The Guardian, and a collection, Sunstroke and other stories was published in January 2007. (This was shortlisted for The Story Award in the US.) In 2007 and 2008 she read at the Bath, Cheltenham, Edinburgh and Ilkely Literature Festivals and others. She has had two plays broadcast on Radio 4, the latest in autumn 2006.
She was invited to present a paper at a Yale University symposium on 'Why Literature Matters' in April 2005, and on 'Reading Henry James as a contemporary writer' at the University of Aberdeen Centre for the Novel in November 2006. She was also invited to contribute to a Henry James Review Forum edition on 'Reading James' for Fall 2005, and has written a chapter on JM Coetzee's <em>Disgrace</em> for <em>The Good of the Novel,</em> (to be published by Faber, 2008.).</p>
<p>She was External Examiner for the Oxford University Diploma in Creative Writing (2002- 2005) and for the Bristol University Diploma in Creative Writing (2002-2006). She is a member of the Welsh Academy, and chairs the editorial board for the New Welsh Review. She reviews regularly for the London Review of Books.</p>
Professional Qualifications:
Membership of Professional Bodies/Subject Associations:
Teaching Specialism:
Jane Austen and Henry James; Katherine Mansfield, Jean Rhys, Elizabeth Bowen; The Short Story; Irish Writing; Nineteenth-century European novel; Creative Writing
Key Publications/Exhibitions/Performances:
The Master Bedroom (novel), Cape, 2007
Sunstroke and other stories, Jonathan Cape, 2007
Everything Will Be All Right (novel), Jonathan Cape, 2004
Accidents in the Home (novel), Jonathan Cape 2002
Henry James and the Imagination of Pleasure (Cambridge University Press 2002)
Stories in the New Yorker, Granta, the Guardian
'"The Aspern Papers": Henry James's Editorial Heart', Cambridge Quarterly, Vol XXVI No 4
'Dogs and their Masters: Stories by Thomas Mann and Tibor Dery', Cambridge Quarterly, VolXXX No1
'James, Ruskin and Tintoretto', with my brother Tom Nichols, in The Henry James Review, summer 2003
Read with Tobias Woolf at the New Yorker Festival, October 2004
Presented paper: at Henry James Society conference, University of Venice, July 2005: 'Italy and elegy in Henry James'
'Seated alone with a book...' in the Henry James Review, Fall 2005
Current Scholarship:
Writing fourth novel
Writing commissioned short stories
External Examiners:
for the Oxford University Undergraduate Diploma in Creative Writing Sept 2002 to 2005
for the Bristol Diploma In Creative Writing, Sept 2002 to 2006
Other External Roles:
Recent Professional Updating:
Attended (2006) two conferences at English Subject Centre, one on Close Reading, one on The Pedagogy of the Text
Last Updated: 08 March 2008.
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