Dr Caleb Ferrari

Qualifications:

BA (Hons), MA, PhD

Position:

Senior Lecturer in English Literature

Department:

School of Arts

Telephone:

+441173282919

Email:

Caleb.Ferrari@uwe.ac.uk

Social media:

About me

I joined UWE in 2017 and since then have taught on a wide variety of modules across English literature, Liberal Arts and Foundation Year programmes, including modules on myths and fairy tales, utopian & dystopian literature, close reading, and gender and literature. I am currently Co-Programme Leader for English Literature and English Literature with Writing. I am also module leader for the Professional Development on Placement module.

I am a founding member of the Angela Carter Society, which I help run with my colleagues Marie Mulvey-Roberts, Charlotte Crofts and Stephen Hunt. Our society aims to celebrate and promote the study and appreciation of the life and work of Angela Carter. It is composed of an international body of scholars and hosts a bi-annual conference. More information can be found here: http://angelacartersociety.com/ 

In 2026, I joined the editorial board of the Future Humanities journal as an associate editor. The journal publishes trans- and inter-disciplinary research on the rise of new humanities, focusing on their subjects, methodology, and public dimensions. More info here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/27702030

I am devoted to maintaining high standards of excellence in both teaching and research. In 2020, I completed the PGCAPP teacher training course and have since benefited from regularly working with colleagues both in and outside of my department to help develop my teaching skills.

Area of expertise

My current research focuses on ecocriticism, in particular exploring the life and works of Angela Carter through the lens of environmentalism, ecocritical reading practices, and the concept of the Anthropocene. I was successful in obtaining support from UWE's New Starter Research Support Scheme in order to develop this research project. My other research, which builds on my doctoral work, concerns the relationship between gender identity and visuality. I have published a number of book chapters and journal articles on Angela Carter's literary explorations of this relationship. In 2021, I co-edited a new volume of scholarly work on Carter's heretofore neglected relationship to play and to humour, entitled Ludics and Laughter as Feminist Aesthetic: Angela Carter at Play. I have also published on other writers, including Alison Bechdel and J.G. Ballard.

I am open to enquiries about doctoral supervision. I am particularly interested in supervising PhDs which concern contemporary women's writing, Angela Carter, literature and gender, fairy tales, and literary theory.

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