Lecturer in Creative Writing
Dr. Edmund Hurst is an early career academic in Creative Writing, with a focus on Genre Fiction. He is particularly interested in Fantasy and Science Fiction, having recently achieved his Ph.D for the thesis: 'Dawnsmoke and the Influence of Character Tropes on the Construction of Fantasy Fiction.' A novelist and published short story author, Edmund is a an ex-actor who has worked closely with Hull-based charities to visit local secondary schools and celebrate Creative Writing and the path to higher education.
Modules taught on include:
Creative Writing Portfolio
Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror : Writing the Wondrous and the Weird
Writing the Novel
Poetry, Performance and Play
Arx: City of Broken Minds
Hurst, E. (in press). Arx: City of Broken Minds. Plymouth, UK: Barbican Press
Non Nova, Sed Nove: Darko Suvin's Disputing the Deluge
Hurst, E. (in press). Non Nova, Sed Nove: Darko Suvin's Disputing the Deluge. The Modern language review,
Dawnsmoke and the influence of character tropes on the construction of fantasy fiction
Hurst, E. (2017). Dawnsmoke and the influence of character tropes on the construction of fantasy fiction. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4220796
Research interests include - Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror, Genre Writing, memory loss, the actualisation of fictional characters and the way the human mind grapples with the concept of non-existence
Creative Writing
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