Ashley Bullen-Cutting
School of English
Teaching Associate in Creative Writing
Full contact details
School of English
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield
S3 7RA
- Profile
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I am a Teaching Associate for Creative Writing at the University of Sheffield’s School of English, specialising in fiction and hybrid writing. I recently completed my Creative Writing PhD at the University of Sheffield under the stewardship of Agnes Lehoczky and John Miller. Before that, I received my MA in English Literature: Creative Writing at the University of Sheffield in 2017 and my BA (Hons) in Creative Writing in 2016 at London South Bank University. I am a practicing writer with countless publications both here and abroad. My first creative pamphlet, Waterworks, is due out in mid-2022 from Beir Bua Press and was the winner of the Laurence Sterne Prize 2021. I am also the Fiction Editor of Route 57.
- Research interests
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My research and writing primarily focuses on speculative fiction and experimental writing, hydrofictions and blue discourse, writing the Anthropocene and the environmental humanities, and, universally, contemporary literature (prose and poetry). I am particularly interested in the meeting ground of radical and avant-garde prose and poetry (in form and style) when it comes to exploring difficult subject matters, such as the climate crisis and trauma.
In my current role, I am now exploring Destruction as a writing strategy and form, looking at B. S. Johnson’s The Unfortunates, Italo Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveller, and the archival works of Walter Benjamin and Kenneth Goldsmith to essay the potentialities of broken, shared, and uncreative writing.
During the Great Lockdown of 2020, I helped to organise the ASLE-UKI ‘Out of the Blue’ Postgraduate Conference, serving as a committee member, speaker, and website designer.