I am a Senior Lecturer in English. I currently teach undergraduate courses on reading and writng skills for transition to university, post-war British Literature and representations of trauma. I also teach on an MA unit on 'Time' where I focus on the conflicts between private and public trauma/s.
I have a PhD in English Literature, an MA in Women's Studies, a PGCE in secondary (11-18) education (English and Drama) and a BA (Hons) in English Literature with Sociology minor.
Level 4 (Year 1) Stage Tutor: I oversee the organisation of our level 4 (first year) units and have responsibility for the implementation and delivery of pastoral support systems at level 4.
Representing Manchester
Postwar to the Present
Reprsenting Trauma
MA Contemporary Literature, Film and Theory
Time
My passions are women’s writing, feminist literary theory, theories of reading and the reader, the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century novel and contemporary book cultures.
E. Pollard, G. Carpenter (2018). Hilary Mantel Contemporary Critical Perspectives. Bloomsbury Academic.
G. Carpenter (2009). Review of Justine Picardie's Daphne. Women: A Cultural Review. 20(1), pp.89-96.
GS. Carpenter (2016). 3. Mothers and Others. In: Women and the Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion. Edinburgh University Press,
GS. Carpenter (2007). Reading and the Reader. In: Jeanette Winterson. London: Continuum, pp.69-81.