Dr Helen Palmer
Faculties, deparments and locations
- Kingston School of Art
- Department of Humanities
- School of Creative and Cultural Industries
- Penrhyn Road
Senior Lecturer
- Email:
- h.palmer@kingston.ac.uk
About
I am a senior lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing, working at the intersections of philosophy, speculative writing and critical theory. I am currently module leader of From Prospero to Potter: Reading Through Theory English Literature); Content, Form and Creativity (Creative Writing); and Radical Imaginations (Humanities Foundation degree). I also teach on Writing that Works and Introduction to Creative Writing. My research interests include the avant-garde, queer performance, critical theory, gender, the body, synaesthesia, intersectional feminism, utopias/dystopias, Afrofuturism and new materialism. I am the author of Deleuze and Futurism: A Manifesto for Nonsense (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Queer Defamiliarisation: Writing, Mattering, Making Strange, (forthcoming 2019, Edinburgh University Press). I have poetry published in The Minnesota Review and am currently writing a feminist version of Ulysses set in Blackpool in 1999.
Qualifications
- PhD, Goldsmiths University of London
- MA, Goldsmiths University of London
- MA, University of Glasgow
Publications
Queer defamiliarisation: writing, mattering, making strange
Palmer, Helen (2020). Edinburgh, U.K.: (Edinburgh University Press)
Deleuze and Futurism : a manifesto for nonsense
Palmer, Helen (2014). London, U.K.: (Bloomsbury)
Break
Palmer, Helen, 2017, The Minnesota Review (88), pp 131-131
Jellyfish
Palmer, Helen, 2017, The Minnesota Review (88), pp 130
RAWR
Palmer, Helen, 2017, The Minnesota Review (88), pp 129
Stein does Proteus at sunset on Blackpool Promenade
Palmer, Helen, 2017, The Minnesota Review (88), pp 127-128
Rewritings/refoldings/refleshings : fictive publics and the material gesture of defamiliarization
Palmer, Helen, 2016, (30), 5, pp 507-517
'What happened next?' : Hjelmslev's net, Arachne's web and the figure of the line
Palmer, Helen (2018). In: Somers-Hall, Henry, (eds.), Bell, Jeffrey A., (eds.) and Williams, James, (eds.), A thousand plateaus and philosophy. Edinburgh, U.K.: Edinburgh University Press
Bodies ad absurdum : queer clowning as method
Chalklin, Vikki and Palmer, Helen(2017). In: Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, 06 – 09 Jul 2017 :Utrecht, Netherlands
Beyonce and a button montage : the irreverence of queer clowning
Palmer, Helen and Chalkin, Vikki(2016). In: PoP Moves Conference 2016 : Im/mediate Bodies : Materiality and Mediation in Popular Culture, 15 Oct 2016 :Kingston, U.K.