Dr Nicholas Foxton

Contact

Email: n.foxton@kingston.ac.uk
Location: Penrhyn Road
Faculty: Kingston School of Art
School: School of Arts, Culture and Communication
Department: Department of Humanities

About

I teach in English/American Literature and Creative Writing.

My research interests are:

Literature and the Environment,Modern Fiction, Contemporary Poetry, Ethnopoetics and the interface between Literature & Anthropology (particularly myth).

I also work as an Ecological Surveyor, specialising in Trees, Raptors & Bats.

Academic responsibilities

Senior Lecturer in Humanities

Qualifications

BSc Anthropology
MA Literature & Philosophy
PhD American Literature
MA Creative Writing
FHEA

Teaching and learning

Current Modules

Black & Asian British Writing

Race Nation & Identity

Supervision

MA - Animals, Totems & Catharsis in the work of Ted Hughes

PhD - Female Tricksters and the redistribution of power in American Fabulist Fiction.

Recent Modules

Get a Life: Forms of (Auto)biography

Imagined Places: Humans, Animals & Cyborgs

Literature & the Environment

Victorian to Modernist Literature