Carolyn jess cooke biography of albert

Carolyn Jess-Cooke (born 26 August 1978 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a poet and novelist from Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Carolyn jess cooke biography of albert

Early life

Carolyn Jess-Cooke was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1978. She was educated at The Queen's University of Belfast, where she received a BA (Hons), MA, and PhD by the age of 25. At 26 she took up a lectureship in film studies at the University of Sunderland, where she established herself as a film theorist, publishing numerous articles and books and receiving a reference in Who's Who in Research: Film.^[1] She took up a senior lectureship in Creative Writing at the University of Northumbria in 2009 but tendered her resignation to write full-time in January 2011, and is currently Reader in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow.

She has four children and lives outside Glasgow.^[2] Prominent themes in Jess-Cooke's work include trauma, motherhood, and feminism.^[3]

Career

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