Ms Julia Bell
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Overview
Overview
Biography
Julia Bell is a writer and Reader in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, London where she convenes the MA in Creative Writing and is Project Director of the website MIROnline. She is the author of three novels, Massive, Dirty Work and most recently The Dark Light all published by Macmillan, the co-editor of the Creative Writing Coursebook (Macmillan) re-issued and updated in 2018.
Her essays and short stories have appeared in the TLS, The White Review, The Paris Review and have been broadcast on the BBC. Her essay-length book Radical Attention was published by Peninsula Press in 2021 and her most recent book Hymnal is a memoir in verse, published by Parthian in 2023.
You can read some of her work online at her website www.juliabell.net
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Supervision
Julia welcomes applications for PhD study from students who are committed to producing a body of prose-based creative work in conjunction with academic supervisors from English & Humanities. If you are interested in making an application please contact her in the first instance with your proposal.
Current doctoral researchers
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CHARLOTTE NORTHALL
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MATTHEW BATES
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MELANIE JONES
Doctoral alumni since 2013-14
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LILY DUNN
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KEITH JARRETT
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GOLNOOSH NOURPANAH
Teaching
Teaching modules
- Creative Writing Summer Term Lecture Series (AREN227Z7)
- Creative Non-Fiction (ENHU002S7)
- Writing Workshop (ENHU039S7)
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Bell, Julia (2019) Dinner with Martin Amis. Paris Review ISSN 0031-2037.
- Bell, Julia (2019) The (Dis)order of things. Mal Journal
- Bell, Julia (2019) Liquid assets. The Times Literary Supplement ISSN 0307-661X.
- Bell, Julia (2018) Back of the class. Times Literary Supplement ISSN 0040-7895.
- Bell, Julia (2018) Really Techno. The White Review 22,
Book
- Bell, Julia (2023) Hymnal. Parthian. ISBN 9781914595110.
- Bell, Julia (2020) Radical attention. Peninsula Press. ISBN 9781999922375.
- Bell, Julia (2015) Massive. Basingstoke, UK: Pan Macmillan. ISBN 9781447290353.
- Bell, Julia (2015) The dark light. Basingstoke, UK: Pan Macmillan. ISBN 9781447283034.
- Bell, Julia (2015) Dirty work. Basingstoke, UK: Pan Macmillan. ISBN 9781447290360.
Book Section
- Bell, Julia (2019) Fear in your water. In: Page, R. (ed.) Resist: Stories of Uprising. Comma Press. ISBN 9781912697076.
Other
- Bell, Julia (2019) Fairy. London, UK: BBC Radio 4.