I joined the Open University in May 2011 from the University of Surrey where I taught Creative Writing in the newly established Dept. of English. I have a dual background in Comparative Literature and Applied Linguistics and was educated at the Universities of Warwick, Reading and Queen’s University Belfast in the UK and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the USA where I completed a PhD on theories of realism in the 19th and early 20th century French and English novel.
I am a member of Course Teams in Literature and Creative Writing, specifically A215, Creative Writing, A363, Advanced Creative Writing and A300, Twentieth Century Literature: Texts and Debates.
My research revolves around contemporary narrative theory and practice. I am particularly interested in how and to what extent narrative practices are changing in the light of increasing access to technologies and multiple forms of literacy. I am also interested in the impact of migration across cultures on narrative forms and practices and in language/s as creative resource. This is explored in part in my recent book (Continuum, May 2011), Contemporary Narrative: textual production, multimodality and multiliteracies. My next project aims to look at the work of contemporary bilingual and multilingual writers in relation to notions of translation and creative writing.
Doloughan, Fiona (2012), “Transforming texts: learning to become a (creative) writer through reading”. In New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, 9 (2), pp. 182-203.
Doloughan, Fiona J. (2011), Contemporary Narrative: text production, multimodality and multiliteracies. London and New York: Continuum
Doloughan, Fiona (2010), “Bottling the Imagination: Writing as Metamorphosis in Ali Smith’s Girl Meets Boy”. In New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, vol. 7, issue 3, pp. 241-251.
Doloughan, Fiona J. (2010), “Multimodal Storytelling: Performance and Inscription in the Narration of Art History. In R. Page (ed.), New Perspectives on Narrative and Multimodality. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 14-30.
Doloughan, Fiona J. (2009), “Text design and acts of translation: The art of textual remaking and generic transformation”. In Translation and Interpreting Studies, 4:1 (2009), 101-115, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company
See also Open Research Online for further details of Fiona Doloughan’s research publications.
I can be contacted via the English Department, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK.
