BA (Manchester), MA (Sheffield), PhD (Cambridge)

Senior Lecturer, English Literature; Admissions Tutor for undergraduate Writing
On research leave until January 2012

Room: Hel 162

Email: Katy.Price@anglia.ac.uk

Telephone: 0845 196 2725
International: +44 1223 363271 ext 2725



Katy Price's research activity page

Katy's main teaching areas are poetry, modernism and non-fiction writing. She teaches undergraduate courses on grammar, criticism, storytelling and modernism, and leads seminars on modernism and contemporary poetry for the MA English Literature. She also teaches novel history on the MA Creative Writing.

Formerly a Junior Research Fellow at Homerton College, Katy joined the Department in 2004. Her main area of research is literature and science in the early twentieth century, with a side interest in music technology. She also writes poetry for performance, using voice and sound to explore audiences and spaces for poetry.

Katy's book Loving Faster than Light: romance and readers in Einstein's universe is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press in autumn 2012. She has published articles on William Empson's science poetry, and co-edited The Salt Companion to Peter Robinson with Adam Piette. Her current research project is on precognitive dreams in fiction and non-fiction.

Katy is an Affiliated Research Scholar in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, and is Communications Officer for History of Science at the British Science Festival.

Katy is keen to supervise research in the areas of:

• Twentieth-century and contemporary poetry
• William Empson
• Aldous Huxley
• Literature and science
• Science fiction
• Science communication and popular science

For more information please see Katy Price's research activity page and Wordpress blog.

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