Person

Gifford, Terry

1946

Teaching Specialism: Modern Poetry, Creative Writing, Research Literature and Environment ; A Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Writing and Environment at BSU since Jan 2011, I retired from the University of Leeds in 2004 as Reader in Literature and Environment and Director of Research in the School of Performance and Cultural Industries where I taught Creative Writing. In this role I introduced practice-based PhD programmes at Leeds in Theatre, in Dance and in Creative Writing. For twenty-one years, until 2008, I was Founding Director of the annual International Festival of Mountaineering Literature. I am also currently Profesor Honorifico at the Universidad de Alicante, Spain, where I co-supervise PhD students in ecocriticism and conduct research with staff in English. I am also a member of the Spanish research group GIECO (literature and environment) based at the University of Alcala. Author of seven collections of poetry, several books of ecocriticism, a collection of climbing journalism, I also edited the complete works of John Muir in two volumes, and have written or edited five books on Ted Hughes.