Dr Alison Mark

BA (UCL);  MA (Birkbeck); PhD (Birkbeck)

About Dr Alison Mark

I specialise in twentieth-century and contemporary literature and culture, have taught English, film and gender at Birkbeck, and currently teach Modern Theatre and the London Stage, and the Twentieth-Century British Novel for the Birkbeck London Semester programme.

Research

• I have a particular interest in Modern and Contemporary poetry and poetics, and in Psychoanalysis;

Publications

• Publications include Veronica Forrest-Thomson and ‘Language’ Poetry, and (with Deryn Rees Jones) I co-edited Contemporary Women’s Poetry:  Reading / Writing / Practice.  I am a co-editor of the journal Women:  A Cultural Review, published from Birkbeck.

Research projects and roles

• After completing my PhD I did a psychoanalytic training, and teach ‘Dreams’ for psychoanalytic psychotherapy trainings.
• Recent projects include ‘Poetry and Science:  Veronica Forrest Thomson’, for the Poetry and Science website at Liverpool University.
• Current projects include:  Veronica Forrest Thomson, Poetic Artifice: A Theory of Twentieth-Century Poetry, a new edition with critical introduction, for Manchester University Press.