Dr Alice Vernon

Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Creative Writing
Department of English & Creative Writing
Contact Details
- Email: amv@aber.ac.uk
- Office: D34, Hugh Owen Building
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 621815
- Twitter: @AliceVernon10
- Research Portal Profile
Profile
Alice's research primarily involves the intersection between storytelling and the history of medicine, with a particular interest in sleep disorders, hallucinations and parapsychology. Her debut narrative non-fiction book, Night Terrors: Troubled Sleep and the Stories We Tell About It, was published by Icon Books in 2022 and was BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week. She has given talks at Hay Festival, Cheltenham Literature Festival and Wellcome Collection, has appeared as a guest on BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio Wales and Times Radio, and she has written articles for The Conversation, The Author,The i Newspaper and Canada's Globe and Mail. Her current projects include a horror novel and a non-fiction book examining the history of paranormal investigations. Alice is represented by Donald Winchester at Watson, Little literary agency.
She welcomes PhD applications exploring aspects of horror in fiction.
Teaching
Module Coordinator
- WL20220 - Reading and Writing Fantasy Fiction
- WR32320 - Kapow! Reading and Writing Graphic Narratives
- WR32720 - Big Ideas: Writing Popular Science
Lecturer
- WR32420 - Writing Crime Fiction
- WRM6320 - Writer as Scholar
- WR10220 - Critical Perspectives on Creative Writing
- WR21720 - Shaping Plots
- WR32320 - Kapow! Reading and Writing Graphic Narratives
- WR21120 - Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction
- WR30040 - The Writing Project
- WR32120 - Writing and Place
- WRM6420 - Writing Poetry: Modes in Contemporary Poetry
- WR10020 - Reading for Writers
- WR11320 - Creative Practice
- WR20220 - Beginning the Novel
- WR31220 - Poetry for today
- WRM6240 - Writer as Professional
- WR32620 - Writing Music
- WRM6140 - Writer as Practitioner 1
- WR20620 - Writing Selves
- WR22120 - Adventures with Poetry
- WRM6060 - Writer as Practitioner 2
- WL32220 - Reading and Writing Science Fiction
- WR32720 - Big Ideas: Writing Popular Science
- WR31820 - Crisis Writing
- WRM6620 - Writer as Professional
- WR32820 - Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing
- WR10420 - Introduction to Poetry