Dr Caitlin Stobie
- Position: Wellcome Trust ISSF Research Fellow
- Areas of expertise: Literature and biology; medical humanities; critical animal studies; posthumanism; new materialism; contemporary literature; Modernist literature.
- Email: C.E.Stobie@leeds.ac.uk
- Website: www.caitlinstobie.com
Profile
I am a writer, researcher, editor, and curator. My poems and short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Tears in the Fence, Stand, Poetry & Audience, Berfrois, Flash, The Stockholm Review of Literature, Zoomorphic, and many others.
Research interests
I am currently working on two research projects. The first is a monograph on representations of abortion in southern African fiction. I am also starting a creative-critical project on planetary health and contemporary poetry.
I have worked as a research intern on the AHRC-funded network The Risks of Childbirth in Historical Perspective, as co-curator of an exhibition titled Bearing Different Risks at the Thackray Medical Museum, and as founder of the Leeds Animal Studies Network.
Qualifications
- PhD English Literature
- MA Critical Theory
- BA (Hons) English Literature
Professional memberships
- Associate Fellow of Advance HE
- National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE)
- Society of Authors
Student education
I am Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing at Leeds Arts University. At the University of Leeds I have taught on core and discovery modules: Contemporary Literature (level 3) and Environment, Crisis and Creativity: Contemporary Nature Writing (level 1).
Research groups and institutes
- Medical Humanities Research Group
- Environmental Humanities Research Group
- Poetry Centre
- Creative Writing at Leeds