Mary Jacobs

Mary Jacobs

Job title: Lecturer, School of Humanities and Performing Arts (Faculty of Arts)
Address: Room 1, 6 Portland Villas, Drake Circus,
Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
Alternative telephone: +44 (0)1752 585111
Facsimile: +44 (0)1752 238127
Email: M.Jacobs@plymouth.ac.uk

Role

Lecturer in English

Qualifications & background

BA English (First Class Hons) UCL, 1976

PGCE in English (Distinction) University of London Institute of Education, 1981

MA (Educ.) (Distinction)Language and Literature in Education Goldsmiths College, University of London 1985

Currently reseaching Ph.D. by part-time study on Politics and Aesthetics in the Literary Work of Sylvia Townsend Warner, University of Plymouth, 2003 -

Formerly Lecturer at Dartington College of Arts; Clapham Adult Education Institute; South East London Technical College; part-time literature teaching for University of London Extra-Mural Department.

Joined Polytechnic South West as SL in English in April 1990.

Professional membership

NATFHE

Roles on external bodies

Teaching interests

Undergraduate modules: Rhetoric; Autobiography; Biography; War Writing since 1914, Creative Writing, dissertation supervision

Postgraduate: MA Creative Writing: Life Writing.

Staff serving as external examiners

Research interests

The writing of Sylvia Townsend Warner; contemporary life writing; African American literature.

Other research

Robert Gee, Mary Reeves and Sue Try: Student Destination Survey: a study of the employment record of arts graduates over a five year period, University of Plymouth July 1977

(Mary Jacobs was formerly Mary Reeves)

Research degrees awarded to supervised students

Grants & contracts

Creative practice & artistic projects

Publications

'Literature and the New F.E.Courses', chapter in Miller, Jane (ed.) Eccentric Propositions: Essays on Literature and the Curriculum, London: Routledge 1984

'Notions of Selfhood', article in English in Education, Summer 1993, vol.27, no.2

'Teaching Biography through Resource-Based Learning'in Gibbs, G. and Wisdom, J. (eds.) Resource-Based Learning for the Humanities, Oxford: Oxford Centre for Staff Development, 1994

'Sylvia Townsend Warner and the Politics of the English Pastoral', chapter in Davies, G., Malcolm, D. and Simons, J. (eds.) Critical Essays on Sylvia Townsend Warner, English Novelist 1893-1978, Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2006
'Sylvia Townsend Warner, the Politics of Disclosure and the Fable', article in The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society 2006.

Reports & invited lectures
Invited to give the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society Annual Lecture, Dorset County Museum, May 2006.
Invited paper on 'Warner's Transgressive Pastoral' at Anglia Polytechnic University Colloquium on Sylvia Townsend Warner, September 2006.

Conferences organised

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