Dr Graham Atkin
Senior Lecturer
Biography
Graham is Senior Lecturer in English and Programme Leader for Combined Honours Creative Writing. He attended the School of English and American Studies at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. He completed his PhD at the University of Liverpool, under the supervision of Nick Davis, on Spenser’s Faerie Queene. Graham has taught for over 20 years in the Department of English at Chester on a range of courses in Renaissance, Shakespeare, and American literature. Graham also teaches on the Creative Writing programme, delivering modules on Scriptwriting. He is interested in bringing writers and actors together to allow students to develop their creativity and produce plays and short films.
Teaching and Supervision
Graham specialises in early modern literature and creative writing. Modules he teaches or lectures on include: Shakespeare Writing Drama Tragedy Kill Bill: Representing Trauma Early Modern Literature The American Way Science Fiction Introduction to the Study of Performance Rebel Angels The Gender Agenda
Research and Knowledge Exchange
Graham has published on Spenser and Shakespeare and is currently working on the topic of loneliness in American literature. Graham is particularly interested in the way that the allegorical imagination evident in earlier American writers, such as Hawthorne and Melville, draws on English literary Renaissance inspirations.