THEORY IN PRACTICE

KINGSTON LITERARY SERIES

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences School of Humanities

Belinda Webb

Why not just write it? Resisting middle-class form in a work of working-class

auto/biografiction

Belinda Webb's debut novel, A Clockwork Apple, was published by Beautiful Books in 2008. Belinda has

had short fiction published in Ambit and Pulp and has written for The Guardian, Comment is Free,

Society Today and The Guardian books blog. She also reviews for Tribune. She is currently working on a

novel towards her PhD, Mary Burns, a post-modernist work of auto-biografiction that attempts to tell

the life of Mary Burns, the long-term partner of Friedrich Engels. She is also working on 'Running

Home', her first collection of poetry.

Marisa Carnesky

Confessions of A Showwoman- A lecture Demonstration

Marisa Carnesky has been creating performance work since the early 1990s. Winner of an Olivier and

Time Out Awards, her company tours internationally. She is the creative fellow at the National

Fairground Archive at the University of Sheffield and associate artist at the Roundhouse. She is best

known for the project Carnesky’s Ghost Train which is a permanent ride with live performers in

Blackpool and her earlier solo work Jewess Tattooess. She also performs with Duckie, The Insect Circus

and performs regularly as a solo artist in clubs and theatres. Her current project The Quickening Of The

Wax is next being shown at the Chelsea Theatre, Sacred Season from 29-31 Marisa will show footage of

her work and talk about the process of making the shows.

Travis Jeppesen

Bad Art, Bad Writing: Itchy Homo, or Why I Am So Terrible.

Travis Jeppesen is a novelist, poet, art critic, and playwright. He is the author of the critically acclaimed

novel Victims, which was selected by Dennis Cooper to debut his Little House on the Bowery series for

Akashic Books in 2003; a Russian translation of the novel was published in 2005 by Eksmo. Jeppesen’s

second novel, Wolf at the Door (Twisted Spoon Press), appeared in 2007. In 2006, BLATT Books

published a collection of poetry, Poems I Wrote While Watching TV; a second collection, Dicklung &

Others, appeared in November 2009. 2008 saw the release of Disorientations: Art on the Margins of

the “Contemporary,” a book collecting Jeppesen’s writings on Central and Eastern European art, and

the launch of disorientations.com, a “one-man art magazine.” His play, Daddy, premiered in June 2009

in Berlin at the HAU Theater, under the direction of Ron Athey.

Host: Heidi James-Dunbar Wednesday 17th November, 6pm-8pm

John Galsworthy Building JG2002

Open to all students and staff as well as the general public

Refreshments will be served