Toby Horkan

Qualifications

• BA (Royal Holloway, University of London)
• MA (Royal Holloway, University of London)
• PhD / DPhil

Summary

I am a PhD student in the Centre for Water Cultures and the School of Humanities at the University of Hull, researching the texts, stories, memories and emotions surrounding Spurn, a sandy spit on the East Yorkshire coast. I am interested in how people represent their experiences with place and landscape in writing, and in particular how rapidly changing places such as Spurn are formed through the polyphonic interplay of countless human and non-human stories and narratives, as well as how different narratives for places may cause conflicts over how to manage their futures. My research is highly interdisciplinary, incorporating theoretical and methodological approaches from areas like English, Human Geography, Marine Science, and History.