Jocelyn Page
Jocelyn's research interests include poetry, the short story, collaboration, academic writing and pedagogy.
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Jocelyn is the convenor of the first-year module entitled 'Genre', and a frequent tutor on Practical Academic Skills and Strategies sessions and the Effective Academic Writing programme.
Academic qualifications
- PhD in Creative Writing (Goldsmiths College, University of London) 2016
- Masters in Creative and Life Writing, with Distinction (Goldsmiths College, University of London) 2009
- BA, Phi Beta Kappa, in Japanese and Linguistics (University of Michigan) 1989
Research interests
In her research, Jocelyn explores close reading of poetry and the short story, poetics, poetic scansion, creative writing pedagogy and strategies toward academic writing and inquiry.
Featured publications
2010:
smithereens
A poetry pamphlet
2016:
You've Got to Wait Till the Man You Trust Says Go
A poetry pamphlet
2021:
This Unexpected Longing for What I've Always Wished Away
A Poem
2022:
'Travellers: Universality in Specificity'
A review in Artemis Poetry
2020:
I Dream of Houses All the Time
A collaborative poem
Grants and awards
2014:
TALIC grant
Collaborative Learning
Publications and research outputs
Art Object
- Reclaim Page, Jocelyn and Enright, Bernadette. 2021. Reclaim.
Article
- The Nets to Catch Words are Made of Words Page, Jocelyn. 2023. The Nets to Catch Words are Made of Words. Writing in Education, ISSN 1361-8539
- Universality in Specificity Page, Jocelyn. 2022. Universality in Specificity. Artemis Poetry(29), ISSN 2045-4686
Book
- You've Got to Wait Till the Man you Trust Says Go Page, Jocelyn. 2015. You've Got to Wait Till the Man you Trust Says Go. London: The Argent Press. ISBN 9780993466205
- smithereens Page, Jocelyn. 2010. smithereens. London: tall-lighthouse. ISBN 9781904551812
Book Section
- Slow Reading in a Time of Crisis Page, Jocelyn. 2024. Slow Reading in a Time of Crisis. In: , ed. The Art & the Craft: Papers on writing and creativity. Arnhem: European Association of Creative Writing Programmes (EACWP), pp. 33-37.
Film/Video
- Jocelyn Page reads 'This unexpected longing for what I've always wished away', a poem Page, Jocelyn. 2022. Jocelyn Page reads 'This unexpected longing for what I've always wished away', a poem.
Thesis
- Lawns of America & On My Mind: The Shared Vision of Collaboration in absentia Page, Jocelyn. 2016. Lawns of America & On My Mind: The Shared Vision of Collaboration in absentia. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London
Other
- This Unexpected Longing for What I've Always Wished Away [Poem] Page, Jocelyn. 2021. This Unexpected Longing for What I've Always Wished Away [Poem]. Corsair Poetry, London.
- Neighbourhood [Poem] Page, Jocelyn. 2020. Neighbourhood [Poem]. Greatest Happiness.
- I Dream of Houses All the Time [Poem] Page, Jocelyn and Drake, Cath. 2020. I Dream of Houses All the Time [Poem]. Magma Poetry, Issue 78, Carshalton.
Professional projects
In 2023 & 2024, Jocelyn wrote and delivered an intensive Creative Writing course for the University of Social Sciences and Humanities (SWPS) in Warsaw, Poland.
Jocelyn has collaborated with the artist Bernadette Enright on 'Reclaim', a poetry-textile installation at Morley College (2021).
She has volunteered as a creative writing facilitator at the 999 Homelessness Charity since 2017.
in 2016, she was the Writer in Residence at The Reach Climbing Centre in Woolwich, London.
Conferences and talks
2023:
'Slow Reading'
Paper presented at the European Association of Creative Writing Programmes VI International Pedagogical Conference
2022:
'Scan Rave: A Transatlantic Collaborative Approach to Scanning Poems'
Panel at the National Association of Writers in Education conference
2021:
'Questioning the Givens of Academic Writing'
Panel participant at Oxford Brooks
2015:
'Translation as Collaboration'
Paper on poetry and collaboration in the Age of Modernism at Trinity College
2012:
'Mapping Chaos'
Paper on collaboration and poetry at Plymouth University
Affiliations
Jocelyn convenes and teaches Creative Writing and Academic Writing and Inquiry for the University of London Worldwide and Verto Education.