Dr Melanie Ebdon

Melanie holds a Fellowship with the Higher Education Academy.

• PhD in contemporary literature: Remembering Identity After Postmodernity (2004), Bangor University

• Post Graduate Certificate of Teaching in Higher Education (2004), Bangor University

• MA in Gothic and Magical Realist Literature from a Feminist Perspective (1999) from Bangor University, winning the ‘John F. Denby Memorial Prize’ for postgraduate work.

• BA Hons (1997) from Bangor University

Melanie is developing ecocritical readings of contemporary fiction, particularly fiction which shows a marked departure from the concerns of postmodernity. More specifically, at present Melanie is working on the writing of contemporary British novelist and short-story writer Sarah Hall, presenting her work at conferences.

Contemporary fiction, literature after postmodernism, ecocriticism, magical realism, postcolonial fiction, Gothic fiction, gender studies.

At first-year, level 4, Melanie leads the modules ‘Introduction to English Studies’ and ‘Writing for Success!’, while also team-teaching on the ‘British Literature After 1945’ module.

Melanie’s current second- and third-year option modules include:
‘Magical Realism: From Flying Carpets to Urban Angels’.
‘Nature Now: Dreams and Nightmares in the Contemporary Ecosphere’
‘Global Voices: Stories of Empire’
‘Gothic Fiction’

Burnham, D and M. Ebdon (2009) ‘Philosophy, Literature and Interpretation’ in J. Mullarkey and B. Lord The Continuum Companion to Continental Philosophy. Continuum: London.