Author Archives: Emma Claire Sweeney

About Emma Claire Sweeney

Lecturer in Creative Writing at the open University, Director of the Ruppin Agency Writer's Studio (a nationwide literary mentoring programme), and award-winning author of novel OWL SONG AT DAWN and co-author with Emily Midorikawa of non-fiction book A SECRET SISTERHOOD: THE HIDDEN FRIENDSHIPS OF AUSTEN, BRONTË, ELIOT AND WOLF.

Opening the Curriculum: A brief personal history

Posted on 11th March 2018 by Emma Claire Sweeney

Dennis Walder, Emeritus Professor of Literature It was the mid 1970s, I’d left South Africa, and was a Research Fellow at Edinburgh University, doing a PhD on Dickens and teaching there to supplement my income.  I had heard about a … Continue reading →

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Response to Direct and Mediated Contact: Further Questions

Posted on 20th February 2018 by Emma Claire Sweeney

Richard Allen The analysis and the questions raised in the previous posting on Direct and Mediated Contact in Literary Pedagogy are pertinent to the future of Literary Studies. My comments here don’t dare to provide answers but raise two issues … Continue reading →

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Direct and Mediated Contact in Literary Pedagogy

Posted on 17th February 2018 by Emma Claire Sweeney

Suman Gupta Teachers and researchers in literary studies at The Open University have delivered Higher Education (HE) programmes using up-to-date methods and technologies for almost 50 years. In this they have followed the mission of the university: in particular, to … Continue reading →

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Spots of Time

Posted on 15th February 2018 by Emma Claire Sweeney

  Richard Allen, Emeritus Professor of English (Dean of Arts Faculty 1998-1999, 2000-2007) The first specialist Literature course, A302 The Nineteenth Century Novel and its Legacy, was half way through its first production when I joined the OU (but not … Continue reading →

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Expressive writing workshops in Iraq

Posted on 8th February 2018 by Emma Claire Sweeney

Dealing with the past, imagining the future The effects of war stretch far beyond the battlefield. Many women who have suffered sexual violence in Iraq now find that the process of seeking justice through the legal system inflicts new trauma … Continue reading →

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