Llew Watkins
School of English
PhD Research Student
- Qualifications
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- MA in Creative Writing, Royal Holloway, University of London
- BA (Hons) in Fine Art Sculpture, University of Brighton
- Research interests
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- Enactivism
- 4E models of cognition
- Buddhist studies
- Embodied narratology
- Science fiction studies
- Creative writing
I research experience, and especially key claims of the enactive approach about how an organism ‘brings forth’ a world. My research is interdisciplinary, investigating enaction as it relates to embodied narratology; through creative writing and science fiction (SF) studies; and in relation to models of mind drawn from contemporary cognitive science and the Buddhist tradition.
Hinterland Shift - This long term creative project explores a groundless worlding through a novel length work of fiction and the accompanying creation of sculptural installations.Publications:
- Crystals of Ego, The Sheffield Review, Creative Writing Journal of the University of Sheffield. Issue 20, May 2024
- Hinterland Shift (Extract), Bedford Square Review, Fourth Edition, May 2023
- Mapping the Hinterland Shift, Cartographies of the Imagination, ISBN 978-1-5272-8386-2. Blissets, London · Jul 2021
- L'enfant (Extract), Future Impermanent, Exhibition publication accompanying Future Impermanent, Wimbledon College of Arts · Sep 2020
- Review of Science Fiction Circuits of the South and East (2018) edited by Anindita Banerjee and Sonia Fritzsche, Fantastika Journal, Volume 4, Issue 1. ISSN: 2514-8915 · Jul 2020
- Research group
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- London Science Fiction Research Community; Speculative Divination; Ritual Criticalities; Companion Voyages
Supervisors:
- Professor Joanna Gavins
- Professor Adam Piette
- Dr Clare Fisher