Dr Jane Alexander
Lecturer in Creative Writing; Programme Director, MSc in Creative Writing
- English Literature
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 651 7112
- Email: jane.alexander@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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2.45, 50 George Square
- City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 8LH
Availability
Office hour: Wednesday 10-11am
Background
Jane Alexander is a novelist and short story writer. Her first novel The Last Treasure Hunt (Saraband, 2015) was selected as a Waterstones debut of the year; her second novel A User's Guide to Make-Believe (Allison & Busby) was published in January 2020. Her short fiction has won prizes and been widely published, and a short story collection with accompanying essay, The Flicker Against the Light and Writing the Contemporary Uncanny, is forthcoming with Luna Academia in 2021. She is the recipient of a Scottish Arts Council New Writers Bursary and a Creative Scotland research award, and in 2016 was awarded a Hawthornden International Writing Retreat Fellowship. Jane joined the department in 2017, and in 2018 she completed a creative writing PhD on the contemporary uncanny in short fiction, funded by Northumbria University. Jane is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Postgraduate teaching
MSc Creative Writing (Prose Fiction)
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Current PhD students supervised
Robin Brown, This Terrible Silence (a novel) and "The Voice of Literature”: Postcolonial Rejection of Orthodox Narrative Voice in the Work of James Kelman and Amos Tutoula