Emma 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
- 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 PhD Creative Writing (under examination) 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)
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 Pedagogy The impact of early literacy intervention on reading, writing, communication and mental health Adult Literacy and teaching methods
