Dr Alan Bilton

• Untitled (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Ms Gilly Adams

• Untitled (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Lisa Smithstead

• Untitled (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Prof Louise Miskell

• Untitled (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Sarah Gamble

• Madness, Comedy and Characterisation (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Mr Geraint Evans

• Untitled Welsh Gothic (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Prof Kirsti Bohata

• The Kudu Club (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Rachel Farebrother

• Nothing Works and Nobody Cares (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Prof David Britton

• Riverborne (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Marie-Luise Kohlke

• The Penthos Principle (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Richard Robinson

• What the Dead Say. (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Anne Lauppe-Dunbar

• Slipped Seemings (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Chris Pak

• ‘Beneath a Sallow Bough: A Research Study and Creative Exploration of First-wave Feminism and Folklore in the Mining Communities of the Upper Swansea Valley during the Late Victorian Era’. (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Francesca Rhydderch

• Daughters of the Water (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Roberta Magnani

• Sugar and Spice and All Things. (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Ms Gilly Adams

• Threads (awarded 2024)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Francesca Rhydderch

• Revealing the Remarkable; Understanding personal Identity and experience through the lives of Women in Immortality Fiction.«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /» (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Prof Jasmine Donahaye

• Summer of the Locust (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Anne Lauppe-Dunbar

• 'The Fastenings' (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Marie-Luise Kohlke

• Old title 'Finding a Voce' New title: 'Talking to Marilyn' (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Anne Lauppe-Dunbar

• How Stories, both ancient and modern containing elements of horror help us to heal. (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Alan Kellermann

• Lucid and liminal dreaming for creative writing: implications for fiction writing and poetry (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Prof Mark Blagrove

• Brit Ghanaian Court jester in Nutty Wonderland (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Alan Kellermann

• How writers can manage the modern readers’ cultural expectations and what gives an author the authority to write a narrative of that of someone from a different cultural background. (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Rachel Farebrother

• The Release of the Butterfly: The Emotional effects of a Life Changing/ Life Shattering Event, like sudden disability (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Prof Kirsti Bohata

• Working title of novel: Gates and Benches (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Anne Lauppe-Dunbar

• The Subversion of Movement and the Crisis of the American Identity in the 70s (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Prof Stephen Mcveigh

• The Cyfarwydd - an exploration of the role of the storyteller and the impact of myth creation from Medieval times to the present day. (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Prof Daniel Williams

• Little Heaven (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Sarah Gamble

• Damsels in Distress: Faux Feminisim in Young Adult Fantasy (awarded 2024)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Francesca Rhydderch

• Creative Component - Earthbound«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /» Research Component - The Greatest Story Ever Told?, Resolving Narrative Error in the Bible. (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Francesca Rhydderch

• HOMOCAUST: Exhausting the Burning Stick: A Rhizomatic Nomadic Celebration of Queering Pilgrimage Amidst Awakening in Performance Faggotry (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Alan Kellermann

• The Maze of Yirtiaqin (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Sarah Gamble

• The Wake (awarded 2023)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Anne Lauppe-Dunbar

• 'The Zagra Valley Codices' A Compilation of Writings (awarded 2023)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Prof David Britton

• The Midnight Castle / Dystopian Fiction (awarded 2024)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Jon Gower

• Marilyn/Marilyn (awarded 2024)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Anne Lauppe-Dunbar

• 'The Sandstone City' (working title) (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Francesca Rhydderch

• The Crow: how grief and trauma can be processed through the medium of storytelling (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Marie-Luise Kohlke

• Oer, Developing Her Voice: A Heroine’s Journey to Literary Individuation through Speculative Fiction (awarded 2023)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Prof David Britton

• Portrayal of Ageing in Contemporary Novels (awarded 2023)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Rachel Farebrother

• Achieving Humanity. The Representation of Dignity and Decency in the Fiction of Albert Maltz (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Prof Stephen Mcveigh

• 'The Rhythms Arrhythmic' (awarded 2023)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Alan Kellermann

• Creative component: The Town, a work of creative non-fiction exploring a teenager's experience of edgelands, outshift landscapes and military topographies in Bridgend, South Wales. Critical component: Defining and evaluating an emerging eco-gothic landscape aesthetic capable of addressing urban and suburban childhood experience.«br /»«br /»«br /»«br /» (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Prof Kirsti Bohata

• The Twitter of Machines (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Alan Kellermann

• New title of project:The CLOT Response (awarded 2022)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Alan Kellermann

• A Dance for Daughters. Support essay: The Magpie Bridge. (awarded 2024)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Francesca Rhydderch

  Other supervisor: Prof David Britton

• AM-117 Introduction to American Studies

  This module provides an introduction to the discipline of American Studies, with a particular focus on the interdisciplinary scope of the subject. In addition to encouraging students¿ critical engagement with music, film, literature, visual culture, and history, it establishes a theoretical framework that will form the basis for more specialised study of the United States at levels 5 and 6. The module focuses on significant spaces in U.S. culture and history, from the ship and the plantation to the suburbs and the shopping mall, which are explored using various disciplinary lens and theoretical approaches.

• AM-336 American Studies Dissertation

  The American Studies dissertation is a free-standing, 40-credit module for American Studies students only, which runs across both semesters of Level Three. Candidates conduct research upon a subject of their choice, devised in consultation with a member of staff teaching on the American Studies degree. The topic must fall within staff research and teaching interests.

• EN-117 Creative Writing: Fiction Genres

  An innovative module that will introduce the student to the art of writing within a broad range of genres. Weekly lectures will introduce each student to authors of specific genres, such as crime writing, historical fiction, fairytale, horror, fantasy, science fiction, romance and writing desire. Each lecture will be followed by a seminar that will focus on a variety of methods used to write in that specific genre. Regular assignments will offer the student a opportunity to write creatively - a unique opportunity to expand, discover, and explore their emerging writerly voice. Built into the module is a wide reaching reading programme that will assist each student to be conversant with the traditions of writing in a specific genre, whilst encouraging close reading and editing skills. Students will be taught by published authors who work within these particular genres, and will also have the opportunity to hear these authors read & discuss their own new work and works-in-progress. The module aims to examine the structure, voice, setting and genre, of specific written material so as to initiate curiosity, create empathy, and focus on increasing an understanding of the structures used within writing character, setting and historical context in a specific genre. Emphasis will be placed on the theory and practice of reading, comprehension and writing.

• EN-118 Creative Writing: Styles of Fiction

  An innovative module that will introduce the student to the art of writing within a broad range of styles. Weekly lectures will introduce each student to authors of specific styles, such as poetry, writing for theatre, song writing and professional writing. Each lecture will be followed by a seminar that will focus on a variety of methods used to write in that specific style. Regular assignments will offer the student an opportunity to write creatively - a unique opportunity to expand, discover, and explore their emerging writerly voice. Built into the module is a wide reaching reading programme that will assist each student to be conversant with the traditions of writing in a specific genre, whilst encouraging close reading and editing skills. Students will be taught by published authors who work within these particular genres, and will also have the opportunity to hear these authors read & discuss their own new work and works-in-progress. The module aims to examine the structure, voice, setting and style, of specific written material so as to initiate curiosity, create empathy, and focus on increasing an understanding of the structures used within research, writing character, setting and historical context in a specific style. Emphasis will be placed on the theory and practice of reading, comprehension and writing.

• EN-244 American Word / American Image

  This module explores the central work of Twentieth Century American Fiction in relation to American Visual culture, including film, art, photography and pop culture.

• EN-3014 Further Fiction Writing

  This module consists of a series of weekly one-hour lectures, each followed by a one-hour workshop, leading the student through the theory and practice of writing fiction:regular assignments will be brought to the workshop to be considered communally. Technical exercises will also be undertaken during each class, leading to discussion and building the practical comprehension of the techniques of fiction writing. Built into the module is a systematic programme of reading, both of modern and earlier works of fiction, to render students conversant with the traditions in which they are participating, and to encourage close reading skills. Concentrating on short prose, the course will teach the fundamentals of narrative and plotting; the use of imagery and setting in fiction; the art of the character-sketch and the elaboration of character through setting, dialogue and narrative. The course will be taught by a fluid mingling of tutor-led discussion and workshop-based exercises; writing techniques will be clarified by the reading and discussion of named works, shedding light on creative practice by exercises in mimesis and parody. The module will be evaluated by a 7,000-word portfolio to be submitted at the end of the semester, comprising either one long story or several shorter pieces, together with a 500-word reflective essay.

• EN-3062 Contemporary American Fiction

  This interdisciplinary module explores the role of the writer in America in the Twenty first century, and seeks to account for the seemingly paradoxical energy of the novel in an age of apparent exhaustion.

• ENMD00 Creative Writing Dissertation

  Individual Creative Writing project devised and defined in discussion between supervisor and student (within the parameters pertaining to genre detailed in the MA Creative Writing handbook)

• Senior Lecturer, Swansea University

  September 1996 - Present

I have given readings and talks at the Hay Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, as well as many other festivals, book stores and libraries.