Pleasance, Dr Helen

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Pleasance, Dr Helen

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h.pleasance@yorksj.ac.uk

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School of Humanities, Religion & Philosophy

Biography

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Senior Lecturer : Creative Writing

Biography:

Helen is currently working on a memoir/history hybrid, Ghosts on the Hill, and an academic article about the Moors murders and the poetics of working-class decency, both based on her PhD research into the Moors murders. She is also researching a short story collection, From Peterloo to Primark, which aims to use fiction to provide an historical imaginary map of Manchester. Her other research interests include: creative non-fiction and the borders between fiction and non-fiction; photography and (particularly women's) embodied identity; popular culture; archival research and memory.

Qualifications:

She holds a BA (First Class) in English in the School of Cultural and Community Studies from the University of Sussex; an MA (Distinction) in Cultural Studies from the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham; an MA (Distinction) in Creative Writing and PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from Manchester Metropolitan University. She has previously taught Literature, Critical and Cultural Theory and Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham, the University of Derby and the Open University.

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Pleasance, Hele (2023) Virginia Woolf would have loved The Great British Sewing Bee – as three of her novels prove. The Conversation.
Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605, Mann, Fraser and Pleasance, Helen (2018) Music, Memory and Memoir – an emerging genre. In: Subculture Network, University of Reading.
Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605, Mann, Fraser and Pleasance, Helen (2023) Venue Stories From Backroom to Rave Room, from the Toilet Circuit to the Town Hall. Equinox
Hurley, Ursula and Pleasance, Helen, eds. (2019) Purple Reign. First ed. Liverpool, UK, Erbacce-press
Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605, Mann, Fraser and Pleasance, Helen (2019) Music, Memory and Memoir: Critical and creative engagement with an emerging genre. Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 12 (1-2). pp. 181-199.
Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605, Mann, Fraser and Pleasance, Helen (2019) Music, Memory and Memoir. London, Bloomsbury
Pleasance, Helen (2015) Ghosts of the real: the spectral memoir. In: Tansley, Laura and Maftei, Micaela, (eds.) Writing creative non-fiction: determining the form. Canterbury, Gylphi, pp. 71-88
Pleasance, Helen (2013) The essential subject? The very documented life of Myra Hindley. In: Stanley, Liz, (ed.) Documents of life revisited : narrative and biographical methodology for a 21st century critical humanism. Ashgate, pp. 45-58
Pleasance, Helen (2011) Lost Children, the Moors & Evil Monsters: the photographic story of the Moors murders. Image & Narrative, 12 (4). pp. 18-38.

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1	Lost Children, the Moors & Evil Monsters: the photographic story of the Moors murders	610	834
2	Ghosts of the real: the spectral memoir	136
3	The essential subject? The very documented life of Myra Hindley	128
4	Purple Reign	56
5	Virginia Woolf would have loved The Great British Sewing Bee – as three of her novels prove	24	16