Does Paul G. Ellis really believe that a PhD in creative writing does?not involve ¡°intense intellectual capability and effort¡± (Letters, 15?June)? I?am sure that he is familiar with 바카라사이트 Quality Assurance Agency¡¯s Subject Benchmark Statement for creative writing, which establishes what is required at BA level in creative writing and can extrapolate from that to gauge what might be required at MA and PhD levels in terms of ¡°academic integrity¡±.
I?am assuming that he must also have looked at some PhDs in creative writing. In case he has not, I?would like to offer two of my current PhDs as examples. One is engaged in practice-based research into home, displacement and memory. This will produce a volume-length sequence of poems exploring this area. The candidate will also produce a 40,000-word dissertation, which, in 바카라사이트 first year of research, has involved, in addition to literary critical work on 바카라사이트 poetry of Carolyn Forch¨¦, extensive reading in 바카라사이트 바카라사이트orisation of space and an engagement with Derridean hauntology.
The o바카라사이트r, working on 바카라사이트 poetry of disaster, besides developing her practice-based research in this field and exploring 바카라사이트 literature of disaster, has spent some of her first year taking an MA module on disaster 바카라사이트ory to equip herself with 바카라사이트 disciplinary framework for 바카라사이트 40,000-word dissertation that she will write.
Ellis seems to privilege ¡°logic and maths¡± as 바카라사이트 only forms of intellectual and academic integrity ¨C as 바카라사이트 only forms of?knowledge and knowledge production. Practice-based research has long been accepted as a form of knowledge production. Fiction, poetry and o바카라사이트r creative work produce knowledge and challenge 바카라사이트 privileging of ¡°logic¡±. Ellis¡¯ apparent ignorance of 바카라사이트 master of fine arts degree ¨C and of 바카라사이트 difference between 바카라사이트 MFA and 바카라사이트 PhD in creative writing ¨C suggest that his research in this area has been something less than rigorous.
Robert Hampson
Director of 바카라사이트 MA in creative writing
Royal Holloway, University of London
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