CV
Studying PhD in the Social and Cultural Geography department, Royal Holloway, University of London (Current)
MSt in English Literature from 1900, Oxford University (2009)
BA Degree in English Literature (First Class), Oxford University (2008)
Publications
‘‘Whitby is a statement’: Littoral geographies in British Poetry’, book chapter in Poetry & Geography: Space, Place & Post-War Poetry, ed. by Neal Alexander & David Cooper (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2012)
‘The station and the port: monastic geography in Riley’s Llŷn’, in Peter Riley: Critical Essays (currently co-editing with Alex Latter for Gylphi Ltd: Arts and Humanities, due 2013)
‘Notes on the Diagram- -Poems’, Intercapillary Space website, http://www.intercapillaryspace.org/2012/04/amy-cutler-notes-on-diagram-poems.html
Awards
British Federation of Film Societies Commendation for PASSENGERFILMS for ‘Best Film Education Programme’, 2011
Winner of 1k Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs mini-grant for PASSENGERFILMS, 2011
Holder of full AHRC award for PhD research in Cultural Geography and one other discipline, Royal Holloway, 2009-2012
Holder of the Senior Scholarship Award for outstanding academic achievement, Wadham College, 2008-9
Winner of the Rex Warner Literary Prize for outstanding creative writing and translation, 2007
Roles
Appointed an Ambassador for Public Engagement by the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE) in Jan 2012: see ambassador page.
Founder and Director, PASSENGERFILMS, ‘the car crash of geography and cinema’, 2010 onwards
Founder and Editor, LAND DIAGRAMS, new cross-disciplinary twinned studies
Convener, ‘In-betweenness: cross-disciplinary research’, Landscape Surgery, Bedford Square, 29th May 2012
Conference Co-Organiser, ‘Where horizons meet’: a one-day conference on Peter Riley and readings of his work, Birkbeck University, 14th January 2011
Convenor, ‘Poetry beyond Ecocritical Narratives’, two panels for Association for Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) post-graduate conference, ‘Emergent Critical Environments: Where Next for Ecology and the Humanities?’, London, 9-10th September 2011
Special Events Co-Ordinator, UK Green Film Festival, Bermondsey Square, London, 20th – 22nd May 2011
‘Exploring London’s Olympic Waterscape’: collaborator on a film produced for the 2012 Cultural Olympiad with a 2k Olympic grant, available to watch online here, plus collaborative article published on British Library website here, 2010
Convenor, ‘Geography and Twentieth Century British Poetry’, two panels plus readings by six poets, at RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2010, London, 1-3rd September 2010 (see session report)
MSt Representative, English Graduate Organisation, Oxford, 2008-9
Events Manager, Oxford University Film Foundation, 2006-7
Contributing Editor and Poetry Editor, The Edgeless Shape (Oxford literary publication), 2006-7
President, Oxford University Poetry Society (weekly readings by visiting poets, weekly writing workshops, and additional events), 2005-6
Contributing editor, SCRAP (Oxford/ Cambridge/ London), 2005-6
Online editor, The Compass (Oxford literary website and poetry forum), 2005-6
President, Wadham College Film Society, 2005-6
Film Editor, Arts Editor, and then Deputy Editor on The Cherwell, 2004-5
Selected conference papers
‘A new word view: geography and the challenge of poetry’, in ‘Interdisciplinary geographies’ panel, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2012, Edinburgh, 3-5th July 2012
‘Remit and rhyme: land ownership in contemporary British poetry’, Politics at Royal Holloway one-day conference, RHUL, 31st May 2012
‘The station and the port: coastal passages’, at Over the Irish Sea: Symposium, University College Dublin, 26-27th April 2012
‘Treed to a wild junction’: forest intersections in modern British poetry’, Intersections: UCL Graduate Conference, London, 9th March 2012
”L/andedness ends’: British Poetry and Coastal Politics’, talk given as part of Intercapillary Places event You are outside, lost somewhere: Cutler & Fox, Parasol Unit, 15th September 2011
‘Peter Larkin’s Leaves of Field and British forest management’, Cultivation Field Postgraduate Symposium, Reading University, 28th September 2011
‘Contemporary British Poetry and Coastlines’, RHUL Geography Postgraduate Symposium, 21st September 2011
Panel guest on ‘I Want to Start a Film Club’, part of the Scala Forever season at the Roxy Bar & Screen, 3rd September 2011
Panel guest on ‘Zombie Zero Apocalypse’, a critical dissection of the geography of zombies, 7-8pm on Resonance FM, 21st April 2011
‘Poetics of the peninsular in Peter Riley’s Llyn Writings‘, paper given at Regional Literary Cultures Conference, University of Nottingham, 14-15th April 2011
‘Everything You Wanted To Know About Zombies But Were Afraid To Ask Daniel Defoe’, paper for one-off event on plague narratives at the Centre for Creative Collaboration, 8th April 2011
‘28 Days Later and the New Mobilities Paradigm’, paper given at Sights and Sites: Topographical Approaches to British Cinema, Queen Mary University of London, 2nd April 2011
‘Littoral and literal: capes, coasts, and British poetry’, paper given at British and Irish Contemporary Poetry Conference, Queens University Belfast, 15-17th September 2010
‘Allen Fisher and Brixton Fractals’, at the UCL Urban Laboratory Stadtkolloquium, 28-29thJanuary 2010
‘Write off the map: modern British poetry and the Ordnance Survey’, paper given at The Drawn Map, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, 12-13th March 2010
‘Contemporary Cartographic Poetry’, paper given at the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, Birkbeck, as part of the TALKSTALKSTALKS series, 10th Feb 2010
‘The landscape is riddled with failed promises / and premature returns’: industrial remains in Ted Hughes’ Remains of Elmet (1979) and Peter Riley’s Tracks and Mineshafts (1983)’, paper given at ‘Reanimating Industrial Spaces’ session, Theories of Archaeology Group (TAG) annual conference, Durham, 17-19th December 2009
‘Novel geographies of The Great North Road in C. E. Montague’s Right Off the Map (1927) and Elizabeth Bowen’s To the North (1932)’, at Utopian Spaces of British Literature and Culture, 1890-1945, Oxford, 18th September 2009
Poetry
‘Wild Pansy’, published in 2011 by Intercapillary Space here. ‘Sweet Woodruff’ here, ‘Milk Thistle’ here and ‘Hound’s Tongue’ here, all published in Herbarium (Renscombe Press, 2011). One page of SUCKERS published as part of the Lex-ICON project here.
Contacts
PhD Supervisor (Cultural Geography, Royal Holloway): tim.cresswell@rhul.ac.uk
PhD Advisor (English, Royal Holloway): robert.hampson@rhul.ac.uk
[...] and asked me to come along for an interview during the final day of his exhibit in East London. Amy Cutler and I went out and had a fantastic morning chatting with one of the legends of London filmmaking. [...]
[...] and asked me to come along for an interview during the final day of his exhibit in East London. Amy Cutler and I went out and had a fantastic morning chatting with one of the legends of London filmmaking [...]
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