Jane McKie
Senior Lecturer

- English Literature
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 650 3899
- Email: Jane.McKie@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Edinburgh Research Explorer profile
Address
- Street
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Room 2.38
50 George Square - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9LH
Availability
Office Hour: 12-1 pm Tuesday
Background
Jane McKie's first collection, Morocco Rococo (Cinnamon Press), was awarded the 2008 Sundial/Scottish Arts Council prize for best first book of 2007. Her other publications include When the Sun Turns Green (Polygon, 2009), Gardens of Bedsteads (Mariscat, 2011) which was a Poetry Book Society pamphlet choice, Kitsune (2015), From the Wonder Book of Would Your Believe It? (2016), Quiet Woman, Stay (2020), and Jawbreaker (2021).
She studied at Edinburgh, Cambridge, Lampeter St David's, and Warwick, and has a background in psychology, anthropology, myth, religion, and literature.
Undergraduate teaching
- Creative writing: fiction and poetry
Postgraduate teaching
- Creative writing: poetry and fiction
- Concrete poetry and artists' books
- Surrealism and poetry
- Visual art and poetry
- Digital art/poetry
- Writing speculative fiction
- Interdisciplinary studies
Research summary
My research interests are very broad, but recently I have been involved in multi-disciplinary collaborations that involve writing and other art forms.
Project activity
From 2012 to 2013 I worked as a tutor and facilitator on a project entitled ‘Making it Home’ with female refugees and asylum seekers at the Maryhill Integration Network (MIN) in Glasgow. The project centred around two groups (MIN, and Women Supporting Women, Pilton Community Health Project, Edinburgh) who, in parallel, responded to selected poems on the theme of home and I am keen to continue to explore poems as a way of engaging in community settings.
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Telling Data Stories: Developing an online tool for participatory speculative fiction
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529603514
Case › Other contribution (Published) -
Biopolis: Tales of Urban Biology
(158 pages)
Research output: › Book (Published) -
Quiet Woman, Stay
(68 pages)
Research output: › Book (Published) -
Data Stories Creator
Data Stories Creator › Other contribution (Published) -
The Other Side of Silence
Pamphlet › Other contribution (Published) -
"Drifting Off, Blackness Castle Car Park": Spanish translation of poem from Umbrellas of Edinburgh
(1 page)
Poem translation › Other contribution (Published) -
Archipelago
Research output: › Other chapter contribution (Published) -
From The Wonder Book of Would You Believe It?
(40 pages)
Research output: › Book (Published) -
"Drifting Off, Blackness Castle Car Park"
(1 page)
Research output: › Other chapter contribution (Published) -
Kitsune
(65 pages)
Research output: › Book (Published)