Personal profile
Overview
Creative Writing
Creative: A contemporary fantasy novel called Own Worlds which weaves biographical experience of autism with fantastical imaginings. Explores autism as an identity using autistic poetics and neurodiversity as formative guides.
Critical: Investigating the intersection of autism with the rhetoric of the fantastic through close analysis of two screen texts: Blade Runner (1982) and Community (2009-2016). Considers how the Othering of autism with fantastical tropes such as aliens and robots both helps and hinders the cause of neurodiversity. Suggests, therefore, a reconfiguration of the genre's approach to poetics through a recognition of its natural and innate propensity for autistic aesthetic.
Education/Academic qualification
Master of Arts, Screen Studies, The University of Manchester
Award Date: 18 Nov 2011
Bachelor of Arts, Film Studies, Literary Studies and Drama, The University of Manchester
17 Sept 2005 → 19 Jun 2008
Award Date: 19 Jun 2008
Areas of expertise
- PR English literature
- Contemporary Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Autism
- PN1993 Motion Pictures
- Hollywood
- Classical Hollywood
- British Independent
- American Independent
- RZ Other systems of medicine
- Autism Spectrum Conditions
- Autism in Culture
Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms
- Autism@Manchester
- Creative Manchester
Keywords
- autism
- science fiction
- film
- television
- fantasy