Dr Dorothy Lehane

is the author of seven publications, including 8 Songs of [Mothering] & [Capacity] (Guillemot Press, 2023), House Girl (Aquifer Press, 2021), I’m Very Interested in Falling in Love With You (Run Amok Press, 2021), Bettbehandlung (Muscaliet Press, 2018), and Ephemeris (Nine Arches Press, 2014). She is currently working on a project about caves, supported by the British Academy⁄Leverhulme, Arts Council England, and the Society of Authors.

Until 2023, she was Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Kent, where she taught for thirteen years. During that time, she also peer-reviewed for Bloomsbury Publishing, consulted for the Wellcome Trust, and served as External Examiner for Cambridge ICE’s Creative Writing programme. Now working as a freelance writer and creative consultant, she is currently tutoring for Arvon at Home.

Dorothy has shared her creative and critical insights at institutions such as Columbia, Exeter, Birkbeck, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, the Science Museum, the Barbican Arts Centre, Turner Contemporary, and on BBC Radio Kent. She has also presented work at the Magnetic South Arts & Music Festival and voix outré at the Union Chapel.

An essay on the intersection between poetry and science can be found here. For further information please visit dorothylehane.co.uk

 

 

 

Dr Elinor Cleghorn

is a writer, researcher and lecturer specialising in twentieth century visual culture, experimental film, and synaesthesia. She received her PhD from the London Consortium, Birkbeck College, with a thesis exploring the embodied use of materials, apparatuses and devices in the production of cinematic spectacle. In 2011, Elinor programmed a season of events and screenings at BFI Southbank commemorating the 50th anniversary of the death of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren. She has given invited talks on Deren's filmmaking at Camden Arts Centre, Nottingham Contemporary and Tate Modern, and regularly lectures on visual art, performance and cultural studies at the University of Brighton and Central St Martins. Elinor is currently facilitating a research project exploring the scholarly and artistic implications of a rare neurological condition, mirror-touch synaesthesia, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford.