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The Department of English Literature & Creative Writing and the Department of Languages and Cultures jointly present this talk on 'Creatical Writing' by Dr Elina Mikkilä (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellow in Creative-Critical Writing).

Within recent years there has been a burst of writing, both inside universities and outside, that in various ways fuses critical and creative modes of writing and thinking.This development goes by many names, including: creative-critical writing; creative criticism; ficto-criticism; auto-theory etc etc. Dr Elina Mikkilä advances the term, or concept, ‘creatical writing.’

Dr Elina Mikkilä is a Marie Curie Individual Fellow at Lancaster University, and a former research fellow at the Swiss Literature Institute and at the Free University Berlin. She is currently completing a project entitled 'Hybridizing Creative Writing Research: A Creatical Self-Portrait', which seeks to introduce creative writing into the field of artistic research through understanding an amalgamated creative-critical – or ‘creatical’ – mode of writing. She is the author of two books: Der autofiktionale Verständigungsprozess in der Post-Postmoderne: Entwurf einer (meta)literarisch forschenden Praxis and Frühe Formen der Poesie im Internet: Ein typologischer Streifzug.