Professor Maura Dooley
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Maura is a Professor of Creative Writing and convenes the MA in Creative and Life Writing. Her research interests are f
Maura is a Professor of Creative Writing and has directed the MA in Creative and Life Writing since its inception. Her working life has focussed on encouraging new writing through a variety of channels. Maura was Centre Director for the Arvon Foundation, established and directed the literature programme for the South Bank Centre and worked in script development for the Jim Henson Organisation before joining Goldsmiths. Maura has received an Eric Gregory Award and a Cholmondeley Award for her poetry and twice been shortlisted for the T S Eliot and Forward prizes. She has appeared at Literature Festivals in this country and internationally, on BBC Radio and judged literary awards which include the Forward, TS Eliot, Foyle, Laurel and Piggott poetry prizes, the Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship and the David Cohen Award.
Academic qualifications
- BA, English and Related Literature, York
- PGCE, Bristol
Teaching and supervision
I direct the MA in Creative and Life Writing and convene the module Critical Contexts. I teach tutorials on the MA and supervise PhD research.
Research interests
Contemporary poetry
The short story
Irish writing and writing from the Irish diaspora.
I have supervised to successful completion PhD research in a variety of forms: poetry, memoir, the short story, YA fiction and the novel. Currently I supervise PhD students working in poetry, YA and memoir.
Featured publications
2023:
Five Fifty-Five
A collection of poetry
2008:
Life Under Water
collection of poetry
2016:
The Silvering
collection of poetry
2018:
Negative of a Group Photograph
Collection of poetry, with Elhum Shakerifar, translations from the work of Iranian poet Azita Ghahreman,
2015:
A Quire of Paper
A collection of poems written at and for Jane Austen's House Museum
Grants and awards
2006:
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
Fellowships are presented by the Royal Society of Literature to acknowledge practitioners who have contributed to the development of their art form.
1987:
Eric Gregory Award
Awarded to poets under the age of 30
2016:
The Cholmondeley Award
Awarded to recognise the 'achievement and distinction of individual poets'.
Publications and research outputs
Book
Ghahreman, Azita; Dooley, Maura and Shakerifar, Elhum. 2018. Negative of a Group Photograph [Translation]. Hexham: Bloodaxe Books. ISBN 9781780374369
Dooley, Maura. 2016. The Silvering. Hexham: Bloodaxe Books. ISBN 9781780370941
Dooley, Maura. 2015. A Quire of Paper. Sheffield: Smith Doorstop Press. ISBN 9781910367414
Edited Book
Dooley, Maura, ed. 2003. The Honey Gatherers: an anthology of love poems. Bloodaxe Books Ltd. ISBN 978-1852243593
Dooley, Maura, ed. 2000. How Novelists Work. Seren. ISBN 978-1854111920
Dooley, Maura, ed. 1997. Making for Planet Alice: New Women Poets. Bloodaxe Press. ISBN 978-1852243982
Book Section
Dooley, Maura. 2006. From Malachite and Verdigris. In: L. Greenlaw and H. Habila, eds. NW14: The Anthology of New Writing: v. 14. Granta, pp. 231-235. ISBN 1862078505
Article
Chaudhuri, Soma; Pickering, Alan; Dooley, Maura and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2024. Beyond the words: Exploring individual differences in the evaluation of poetic creativity. PLoS ONE, 19(10), e0307298. ISSN 1932-6203
Chaudhuri, Soma; Dooley, Maura; Johnson, Dan; Beaty, Roger and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2024. Evaluation of poetic creativity: Predictors and the role of expertise—A multilevel approach. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, ISSN 1931-3896
Dooley, Maura. 2004. Transit. Poetry, 184, p. 190. ISSN 00322032
Audio
Dooley, Maura. 2003. The Source.
