Rose Atfield

Rose Atfield established the undergraduate and postgraduate Creative Writing programmes at Brunel and  has been delighted at the appointments of Celia Brayfield and Fay Weldon, together with other creative practitioners, as these courses develop and expand. She has taught creative writing for over twenty years and as a member of the national Association of Writers in Education has contributed to numerous conferences and journals on different areas of the discipline. She is particularly interested in the connections between dance and literature.

Rose has participated in a variety of special events to encourage students to choose to study at Brunel, including ‘Taster Days’ for Creative Writing and English. She also contributes to A level revision courses and is particularly interested in links between A level and university study. She has been closely involved with mature students studying English and Creative Writing and hopes to encourage more mature students to study with us.

Research Overview

Rose has also contributed to the research culture of the school and in particular the contemporary literature strand, as she has published several articles on contemporary Irish poets, in particular Eavan Boland and Seamus Heaney, on whom she has completed a book.

Rose’s interests and research areas are complementary as they afford an insight into both critical and creative practice, the combination of which was the subject of her latest conference paper and contribution to the NAWE journal. She is planning further critical studies of contemporary Irish women poets, currently working on a book on Eavan Boland.

Teaching Activity

• EN1004: Creative Writing
• EN2003: Romantic Poetry
• EN2006: Creative Writing II*
• AH2009: Write for Life*

Publications

Journal Papers

(2007) Atfield, R., Postcolonialism in the poetry of Mary Dorcey, Postcolonial Text 3 (3)

(2004) Atfield, J., "Jungian ground": Seamus Heaney and the collective unconscious, Harvest - International Journal for Jungian Studies 50 (2) : 135- 148

(1996) Atfield, J., 'SEEING THINGS' IN A JUNGIAN PERSPECTIVE, ARCHETYPAL ELEMENTS IN HEANEY,SEAMUS RECENT POETRY, AGENDA 33 (3-4) : 131- 143

Conference Papers

(2010) Atfield, JR., Eavan Boland’s postcolonial voice, Poetry and Voice, a creative and critical conference

(2009) Atfield, JR., The uncanny in The Woman in Black and A Jealous Ghost, Winter Forum on the Uncanny

Book Chapters

(2007) Atfield, J., Re-Opened Ground: The poetry of Seamus Heaney.. In: A Jungian Reading of Selected Poems. Mellen Press

(2006) Atfield, J., "The pressure of what has been felt": the poetry of Elaine Feinstein. In: Tylee, CM. ed. "In the open": Jewish women writers and British culture. Newark: University of Delaware Press 229- 244

(2004) Atfield, J., Opened ground from a Jungian perspective: the father archetype in the poetry of Seamus Heaney. In: Baumlin, JS., Baumlin, TF. and Jensen, GH. eds. Post-Jungian criticism: theory and practice. Albany: State University of New York Press 183- 198

(2000) Atfield, J., “Visualisation of the abject in films of Pat Barker’s regeneration and Jennifer Johnston’s how many miles to Babylon?”. In: Women, Drama and the Great War. 2000 : Edwin Mellen

Books

(2007) Atfield, JR., A Jungian reading of selected poems of Seamus Heaney. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press