Dr Emma Kittle Kittle
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
Profile
- Community Engagement
- Creative Writing and Pedagogy: the novel, short stories, life writing, auto-fiction, writing for performance
- Critical Analysis: writing women, On Late Style, the evolution of the mother-daughter plot, writing place - Essex coastal communities
- Early Literacy Intervention: the benefits of quality reading, speaking and writing intervention
Biography
Fixed Term Teacher (FHEA) in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies Project Coordinator/Tutor Essex Book Festival 2023 - present (including Manifesto for Essex, Spoken Word Power and National Saturday Club) Founder and Curator of WriteNight, Colchester's monthly community writing event Creative Writing Tutor at Adult Community Learning Essex Early Literacy Specialist with QTS (Reading Recovery/FFT Wave 3 Trainer accredited)
Qualifications
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FHEA HEA University of Essex (2019)
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MA Creative Writing University of Essex (2011)
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Reading Recovery Teacher Status, MA Teaching Children in Reading Recovery and ongoing training (2010-2017) Institute of Education, UCL (2011)
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QTS Primary Essex Teacher Training (2004)
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BSc (Hons) Politics with Economics University of Bath (2000)
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PhD Creative Writing University of Essex (2025)
Research and professional activities
Thesis
Ida Shakespeer: An Essex Novel
A creative/critical exploration of gender and place in contemporary fiction.
Supervisor: Professor Elizabeth Kuti , Dr Adrian May
Research interests
Reading, Speaking and Writing Research
Creative Writing and Pedagogy The impact of Early Literacy Intervention on reading, writing, communication Adult Literacy and teaching methods