Dr Helen Palmer
Faculties, departments and locations
- Kingston School of Art
- Department of Humanities
- School of Creative and Cultural Industries
- Penrhyn Road
Senior Lecturer
- Email:
- [email protected]
About
I am a senior lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing, working at the intersections of philosophy, speculative writing and critical theory. I am currently module leader of From Prospero to Potter: Reading Through Theory English Literature); Content, Form and Creativity (Creative Writing); and Radical Imaginations (Humanities Foundation degree). I also teach on Writing that Works and Introduction to Creative Writing. My research interests include the avant-garde, queer performance, critical theory, gender, the body, synaesthesia, intersectional feminism, utopias/dystopias, Afrofuturism and new materialism. I am the author of Deleuze and Futurism: A Manifesto for Nonsense (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Queer Defamiliarisation: Writing, Mattering, Making Strange, (forthcoming 2019, Edinburgh University Press). I have poetry published in The Minnesota Review and am currently writing a feminist version of Ulysses set in Blackpool in 1999.
Qualifications
- PhD, Goldsmiths University of London
- MA, Goldsmiths University of London
- MA, University of Glasgow
Publications
Break
Palmer, Helen, 2017, The Minnesota Review (88)pp 131-131, Published
Jellyfish
Palmer, Helen, 2017, The Minnesota Review (88), Published
RAWR
Palmer, Helen, 2017, The Minnesota Review (88), Published
Stein does Proteus at sunset on Blackpool Promenade
Palmer, Helen, 2017, The Minnesota Review (88)pp 127-128, Published
Rewritings/refoldings/refleshings: fictive publics and the material gesture of defamiliarization
Palmer, Helen, 2016, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies (30), 5pp 507-517, Published
Queer defamiliarisation: writing, mattering, making strange
Palmer, Helen (2020). Edinburgh, U.K.: (Edinburgh University Press) [Published]
Deleuze and Futurism: a manifesto for nonsense
Palmer, Helen (2014). London, U.K.: [Published]
'What happened next?': Hjelmslev's net, Arachne's web and the figure of the line
Palmer, Helen (2018). In: Somers-Hall, Henry, Bell, Jeffrey A., Williams, James, (eds.), Edinburgh, U.K.: [Published]
Bodies ad absurdum: queer clowning as method
Chalklin, Vikki and Palmer, Helen(2017). [Published]
Beyonce and a button montage: the irreverence of queer clowning
Palmer, Helen and Chalkin, Vikki(2016). [Published]
The matter of hoping: a speculative journey
Palmer, Helen (2017) [Published]