Dr David Wharton
Lecturer in Education
Profile
Research
Publications
I co-wrote (with Jeremy Grant) two well-regarded education textbooks for the British Film Institute: Teaching Auteur Study and Teaching Analysis of Film Language, and contributed a quarter of the entries to the Hodder A-Z of Media and Film Studies.
My fiction and poetry have appeared in various literary magazines. My novel, Finer Things, was published by Sandstone Press in 2019. I have recently finished another, based on true events in Victorian Leicester.
Supervision
I will consider PhD projects on all aspects of English literature teaching, on creative writing pedagogy, on Lifelong Learning, and on media in education. My strong preference is for qualitative methodology. Currently I am supervising two students: one researching social media representations of female university students in Algeria and one researching the uses of multimodal production in HE English Literature courses.
As a working novelist, I would be delighted to see more applications relating to creative writing teaching at secondary-school level or higher.
Teaching
Press and media
Qualifications
BA (Hons) Literature: University of Essex
MA Modern Literature (Since 1850): University of Kent at Canterbury
PGCE English: University of Leeds
PhD English (Creative Writing) University of Leicester