Module Information

A series of third year or post-doctoral students (in cases where we have Creative Fellows or similar who have recently completed PhD study) will be profiled in order to identify the breadth and wealth of research skills and methodologies in practice across the Institute at PhD level. The projects will focus on practice as research and compositional and creative practice of various kinds in order to provide a different kind of learning experience to that offered by Ways of Reading (PGM0410/MOR0510) but will not exclude more traditional, literary approaches completely.

The module aims to introduce students to a range of research areas, methodologies and outcomes relevant to individual Postgraduate study within the wider framework of the scholarly enquiry active within ILLCA. The module will provide students with insight into distinct ways of working at Postgraduate level but also an awareness and understanding of the interactivity and inter-relations between different but cognate subject areas. These areas might include the politics of translation and also more practical applications of translation, practice-based acts of translation between modes (text/image/object etc.) and media (film/print/performance etc.) and also between and across historical periods. Study of the Creative Industries and Creative production forms another important strand of scholarly enquiry at ILLCA, including the study of digital and technological developments in their impact upon established processes of creative production in theatre, film, television and literary and language studies. Likewise ILLCA engages with Cultural heritage and cultural production, and with questions around the reception and transmission of cultural and linguistic heritage, the role of cultural co-production in that creative cultural exchange and issues of memory, tradition, representation, revival and renewal. Landscape and Environment forms another strand of research enquiry as articulated in various modes of literary and performative practices, but also reaching out towards philosophical engagement with ideas of visualising, imagining and experiencing geographical, cultural, emotional and spiritual ideas of place and space, ideas of belonging to and shaping human environments.