Jocelyn Page

Staff details

Jocelyn Page

Position

Lecturer

Department

English and Creative Writing

Email

j.page (@gold.ac.uk)

Jocelyn's research interests include poetry, the short story, collaboration, academic writing and pedagogy.

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.

Grants and awards

2014: TALIC grant
Collaborative Learning

Publications and research outputs

Art Object

Page, Jocelyn and Enright, Bernadette. 2021. Reclaim.

Article

Page, Jocelyn. 2023. The Nets to Catch Words are Made of Words. Writing in Education, ISSN 1361-8539

Page, Jocelyn. 2022. Universality in Specificity. Artemis Poetry(29), ISSN 2045-4686

Book

Page, Jocelyn. 2015. You've Got to Wait Till the Man you Trust Says Go. London: The Argent Press. ISBN 9780993466205

Page, Jocelyn. 2010. smithereens. London: tall-lighthouse. ISBN 9781904551812

Book Section

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

Page, Jocelyn. 2022. Jocelyn Page reads 'This unexpected longing for what I've always wished away', a poem.

Thesis

Page, Jocelyn. 2016. Lawns of America & On My Mind: The Shared Vision of Collaboration in absentia. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London

Other

Page, Jocelyn. 2021. This Unexpected Longing for What I've Always Wished Away [Poem]. Corsair Poetry, London.

Page, Jocelyn and Drake, Cath. 2020. I Dream of Houses All the Time [Poem]. Magma Poetry, Issue 78, Carshalton.

Page, Jocelyn. 2020. Neighbourhood [Poem]. Greatest Happiness.

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.