Dr Jane Alexander
Deputy Programme Director, MSc in Creative Writing (Online)
Contact details
- Tel: 0131 650 8991
- Email: jane.alexander@ed.ac.uk
Background
Jane Alexander is director of prose fiction on the MSc in Creative Writing by online learning. She 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, and her short fiction has won prizes and been widely published. 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 has previously worked as an associate lecturer in creative writing with The Open University, 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
Postgraduate teaching
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Elements of Fiction Two
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Literary Studies Two: Ways and Means
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Dissertation
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
No
Current research interests
Jane's research interests include contemporary uncanny fiction; science and technology in fiction; interdisciplinary collaborations in creative writing, visual arts and medical humanities.Project activity
Jane is currently completing a collection of short stories about uncanny science and technology, Small Objects and Other Stories (w.t.) and a novel about virtual realities, A User's Guide to Make-Believe.