Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies

Academic Staff

Dr Philip Terry

Position in departmentDirector of Creative Writing
Staff positionSenior Lecturer
E-mailpterry (non Essex users should add @essex.ac.uk)
Telephone2618 (non Essex users should add 01206-87 to the beginning of this number)
Room5A.105
BiographyPhilip Terry's interests include the theory and practice of creative writing, particularly the work of Oulipo, translation, and re-workings of myth and history in postmodern fiction. He is the author of Aesopocrypha (1996), a lipogrammatic novel The Book of Bachelors (1999), and editor of the story collection Ovid Metamorphosed (2000). His first collection of poetry, Oulipoems, appeared in March 2007. His translation of Raymond Queneau's last book of poems, Elementary Morality, has been published by Carcanet.
QualificationsBA Leeds, DPhil Sussex
Research interests
  • Oulipo
  • Poetry
  • Creative Writing

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