Dr David Cooper at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NUST)

Dr David Cooper is senior lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Alongside David, Susan Zieger (Professor of English, University of California Riverside) has also been invited.

Dr Cooper and Professor Zieger have also been named as international consultants on a research bid that NUST academics are submitting, in partnership with the National Library of Norway, to the Norwegian Research Council: a project which will lead to the creation of an interactive map of recently-digitised nineteenth-century Norwegian literature.

Dr David Cooper is senior lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University. His research concentrates on literary geographies: David is interested in how writers represent spaces, places and landscapes in their creative practices; and he is similarly interested in the relationship between literary criticism and geographical thinking. This interdisciplinary research informs David's teaching on the Place Writing pathway on the Creative Writing MA/MFA in the Manchester Writing School, as well as a third-year critical-creative unit dedicated to ‘Writing & Place’.