Craig Jordan-Baker is interested in the literary representation of landscape, place and nature and is currently co-editing (with Dr Philippa Holloway) Writing Landscape and Setting in the Anthropocene - Britain and Beyond (Palgrave). He writes about these subjects in both his academic and literary work. His first novel, The Nacullians (Epoque press) was published in 2020 and has been described by the Irish Times as 'a multi-layered treatise on memory and the stories we tell ourselves'. His second book, If the River is Hidden (Epoque press) is a collaborative hybrid-text written with poet and academic Dr Cherry Smyth and concerns their walk along Northern Ireland’s longest river, the Bann.

Among his diverse teaching, Craig leads the 3^rd year module ‘Reading and Writing Landscape’. As a walker and forager with knowledge of natural history and ecology, he is keen to work his interests into his pedagogic practices. He has won and been nominated for teaching awards several times.

Craig is also interested in Creative Writing theory, Irish literature and history, Art History and Medieval English literature. In 2013 he adapted the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf for the stage, which won ACE funding and an IdeasTap Brighton Fringe Award, which helped the show to tour over several years. Here’s a link to him speaking about his project and the poem itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea1yuH5lJ64

He has published peer-reviewed research in publications such as New Writing: The International Journal of Creative Writing Theory and Practice, Journal of Creative Writing Studies, Archives and Records and Journal of Writing in Creative Practice. He is also a peer-reviewer for the journals New Writing: The International Journal of Creative Writing Theory and Practice, Journal of Creative Writing Studies and Writing in Practice.

Craig’s fiction has been published widely in places such as New Writing, Text and époque press ezine. His plays have had both amateur and professional productions and he has had work commissioned from institutions such as The National Archives, The Booth Museum of Natural History, The Royal Pavilion and the Theatre Royal Brighton.

He currently supervises four PhD students, two of whom have won prestigious TECHNE funding. He is interested in supervising subjects relating the representation of landscape and place, theoretical and disciplinary issues in Creative Writing and is happy to supervise traditional, ficto-critical or creative projects.

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 Link to author profile: https://www.epoquepress.com/our-authors-craig-jordan-baker

I am interested in supervising critical, ficto-critical and creative projects that explore the representation of landscape, creation of place and how writing affects perception and valuation of our environments. I am also interested in projects that explore the history, theory and status of Creative Writing as a subject. 

Craig Jordan-Baker is interested in the literary representation of landscape, place and nature and is currently co-editing (with Dr Philippa Holloway) Writing Landscape and Setting in the Anthropocene - Britain and Beyond (Palgrave). He writes about these subjects in both his academic and literary work. His first novel, The Nacullians (Epoque press) was published in 2020 and has been described by the Irish Times as 'a multi-layered treatise on memory and the stories we tell ourselves'. His second book, If the River is Hidden (Epoque press) is a collaborative hybrid-text written with poet and academic Dr Cherry Smyth and concerns their walk along Northern Ireland’s longest river, the Bann.