Llew Watkins

School of English

PhD Research Student

Qualifications
  • MA in Creative Writing, Royal Holloway, University of London
  • BA (Hons) in Fine Art Sculpture, University of Brighton
Research interests
  • 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
  • London Science Fiction Research Community; Speculative Divination; Ritual Criticalities; Companion Voyages

Supervisors: 

  • Professor Joanna Gavins
  • Professor Adam Piette
  • Dr Clare Fisher