Thomas Legendre
Assistant Professor in Creative Writing, Faculty of Arts
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Expertise Summary
BA (University of New Hampshire), MA (University of Delaware), MFA (Arizona State University), PhD (University of Nottingham)
Creative Writing: Fiction and Drama
Teaching Summary
In my teaching I am interested in helping students to produce fiction of all shapes and sizes. In particular I enjoy exploring the subtle but crucial use of narrative voice and distance in relation… read more
Research Summary
My creative work tends to draw from other disciplines, exploring the subjective underpinnings of apparently objective material. My first novel, The Burning, features characters whose personal… read more
Selected Publications
LEGENDRE, T., 2012. Dream repair: a radio play At: BBC 4
LEGENDRE, T., 2011. Landscape-mindscape: writing in Scotland's prehistoric future Scottish Literary Review. 3(2), 121-132
In my teaching I am interested in helping students to produce fiction of all shapes and sizes. In particular I enjoy exploring the subtle but crucial use of narrative voice and distance in relation to point-of-view, the self-generated structures of narrative, and the unexpected renderings of character, dialogue, setting, and plot that lead to engaging stories and novels.
Undergraduate modules taught
Academic Community
Creative Writing Practice
Fiction: Forms and Conventions
Advanced Writing Practice
Creative Writing Dissertation
Postgraduate Modules Taught
Creative Writing Conventions and Techniques
Writing Workshop: Fiction
Master's Dissertation
Current Research
My creative work tends to draw from other disciplines, exploring the subjective underpinnings of apparently objective material. My first novel, The Burning, features characters whose personal activities, including sexual intrigues and visits to Las Vegas casinos, are inextricable from their discoveries in the fields of economics, ecology, and astrophysics. My play, Half Life (http://nva.org.uk/artwork/half-life/) was an entirely different sort of project -- an immersive, site-specific performance which took place on the west coast of Scotland as part of NVA's environmental art installation -- yet its dramatic technique was derived from the methods of archaeology as well as general relativity and cosmology.
More recently, my novel Keeping Time involves a blend of geology, archaeology, music, and time travel, while another novel in progress, Spring Fever, is a quantum romantic techno-thriller with a literary sensibility.
I have also written critical essays, reviews, and stories ranging in length from 200 to over 7000 words. In addition I have explored audio as a medium for storytelling. This is reflected in 'Divine Wind,' issued by 4'33" Audio Magazine and 'Dream Repair,' a radio drama broadcast on BBC4.
For more detail, visit my website https://www.thomaslegendre.com
LEGENDRE, T, 2020. Keeping Time: a novel University of Cincinnati Press/Acre Books.
LEGENDRE, T, 2020. Hardware Grist: a Journal of the Literary Arts.
LEGENDRE, T, 2019. Intelligent System Litro.
LEGENDRE, T, 2019. Death by GPS Reflex Fiction.
LEGENDRE, T, 2019. Mean Clean Beloit Fiction Journal.
LEGENDRE, T., 2017. John McEnroe's Omelet Copper Nickel. 75-6 LEGENDRE, T., 2017. Ghostly Desires in Edith Wharton's 'Miss Mary Pask' Journal of the Short Story in English. (In Press.)
LEGENDRE, T., 2016. Tenure Tracks Columbia Journal. Available at: <http://columbiajournal.org/fiction-thomas-legendre-tenure-tracks/> LEGENDRE, T., 2016. Ultraviolet Superstition Review. LEGENDRE, T., 2015. Excavation Brain of Forgetting: A Cross-Disciplinary Journal of the Arts, History and Archaeology. 1(1), 93-5 LEGENDRE, T., 2012. Dream repair: a radio play At: BBC 4
LEGENDRE, T., 2011. Landscape-mindscape: writing in Scotland's prehistoric future Scottish Literary Review. 3(2), 121-132
2010. Divine Wind: [fiction in audio format] Mike Wendling. fourthirtythree.com. 12/09/2010 00:00:00