Dr Kim Lockwood Clough
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| Email: Kim.Lockwood-Clough@warwick.ac.uk |
| Room: R3.17 (Ramphal Building) |
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Assistant Professor
Director of Student Experience and Progression (Liberal Arts)
Qualifications
- BA Hons. English Literature and Creative Writing, Kingston University London
- MA Creative Writing Poetry, University of East Anglia
- PhD in American Studies, University of East Anglia
- Fellow of Higher Education Academy
About
I've worked in Higher Education since 2014, as Associate Tutor at the University of East Anglia and Assistant Professor in Liberal Arts at the University of Nottingham. I've designed and led modules covering multiple different subject areas, including American studies, English literature, and creative writing, on topics such as American gothic literature, explorations of space and place, material culture, understandings of emotion, and medical arts and humanities.
I have also worked extensively in student support, as departmental Senior Tutor and Director of Teaching at the University of Nottingham, as private tutor for MA students, course leader for adult learners, and support worker for students with specific learning requirements. I am also a published poet and poetry editor.
Research and Teaching Interests
I like to think about feelings - I'm interested in bodies, sensations, and emotions, and how they have been valued and understood across times and cultures, from antiquity to the present day. In particular, my work focuses on bringing more abstract theoretical and philosophical understandings of feeling into dialogue with discourses in popular culture, to help bring to light the diverse ways in which we think about - and even think with - our bodies and our emotions.
My PhD research explored cultures of emotion and embodiment in American and European modernism. Focusing on the technological advancements and scientific developments which reshaped the environment of the domestic interior, my work analysed how writers, artists, and thinkers responded to shifting understandings of the material world around us, and our human place within it.
My previous and ongoing pedagogical research similarly centres on discourses and lived experiences of feeling. My work has explored how teachers can performatively model behaviour to foster inclusive and open classroom environments; constructive moments of shared vulnerability between teachers and students in interdisciplinary learning; and, most recently, teachers' experiences of designing and supporting authentic assessment practices within the arts and humanities.
Publications
“Is This America? I’m the Teacher, and I don’t know: Pedagogy, Vulnerability, and Empathy.” Journal of American Studies 54, no. 3 (2020): 607-610.
“Two Perspectives on Teaching American Studies: The Inaugural Conference.” Comparative American Studies 16, no. 3-4 (2019): 187-190.
“The Waiting Room.” European Journal of International Law 25, no. 2 (2014)
“Four Poems.” #NewWriting (UEA Publishing and National Writing Centre, 2014)
7 Poets (Eggbox, 2013)
- co-editor, Lung Jazz: Young British Poets for Oxfam (Eyewear and Cinnamon Press, 2012)
“Stasis.” Villanelles (Everyman’s Library, 2012)