Reading America and Reading Rodríguez: Exploring American Literature in an English Prison Book Group
(2025)
Book Chapter
Metcalf, J., & Skinner, L. (in press). Reading America and Reading Rodríguez: Exploring American Literature in an English Prison Book Group. In J. Metcalf, & B. Olguín (Eds.), The Life, Literature and Legacy of Luis J. Rodriguez: In the Long Run. Edinburgh University Press
Outputs (35)
‘How can you imprison a poem?’: Luis J. Rodríguez and Prison Writing Workshops in the US (2025)
Book Chapter
Metcalf, J. (in press). ‘How can you imprison a poem?’: Luis J. Rodríguez and Prison Writing Workshops in the US. In J. Metcalf, & B. Olguín (Eds.), The Life, Literature and Legacy of Luis J. Rodriguez: In the Long Run. Edinburgh University Press
From Archives and Always Running to Prizes and Poetry: Re-interviewing Luis J. Rodríguez (2025)
Book Chapter
Metcalf, J. (in press). From Archives and Always Running to Prizes and Poetry: Re-interviewing Luis J. Rodríguez. In J. Metcalf, & B. Olguín (Eds.), The Life, Literature and Legacy of Luis J. Rodrguez: In the Long Run. Edinburgh University Press
Recovering and Assessing the Life and Work of a Barrio Organic Intellectual (2025)
Book Chapter
Metcalf, J., & Olguin, B. (in press). Recovering and Assessing the Life and Work of a Barrio Organic Intellectual. In J. Metcalf, & B. Olguín (Eds.), The Life, Literature and Legacy of Luis J. Rodrguez: In the Long Run. Edinburgh University Press
Re-Encountering Rodríguez: It Calls You Back and Draws You In – the Personal Papers of Luis J. Rodríguez (2025)
Book Chapter
Metcalf, J. (in press). Re-Encountering Rodríguez: It Calls You Back and Draws You In – the Personal Papers of Luis J. Rodríguez. In J. Metcalf, & B. Olguín (Eds.), The Life, Literature and Legacy of Luis J. Rodríguez: In the Long Run. Edinburgh University Press
‘Strengthen Them Inside’: Supporting Prison Staff Wellbeing in England through Creative Writing (2025)
Journal Article
Nichols, H., Metcalf, J., Earle, F., & Fréour, L. (2025). ‘Strengthen Them Inside’: Supporting Prison Staff Wellbeing in England through Creative Writing. Incarceration, 6, https://doi.org/10.1177/26326663241310334Prison staff experience multiple stressors in the course of their working lives and existing literature consistently emphasises the negative wellbeing implications of prison work. There is a gap in existing research regarding the types of wellbeing s... Read More about ‘Strengthen Them Inside’: Supporting Prison Staff Wellbeing in England through Creative Writing.
Reading Isolation, Writing Loneliness; Book Groups and Creative Practice in Prison (2025)
Journal Article
Metcalf, J., & Burkinshaw, L. (in press). Reading Isolation, Writing Loneliness; Book Groups and Creative Practice in Prison. Critical Survey,This article discusses the need for discursive reading and creative writing practices aimed towards capable readers in prisons. It contends that prison book groups, particularly those with an embedded creative writing component and themed in consider... Read More about Reading Isolation, Writing Loneliness; Book Groups and Creative Practice in Prison.
Words Behind Walls: A Creative Writing Project with Prison Staff (2024)
Journal Article
Metcalf, J., & Westoby, C. (2024). Words Behind Walls: A Creative Writing Project with Prison Staff. Lapidus International Research and Innovation Community Journal, 4(1), 30-51Research from the Institute of Criminology at Cambridge recognises that prison officers are productive role models for prisoners and that the pop-cultural stereotype of the officer beating the inmate into submission has diminished. Yet a report publi... Read More about Words Behind Walls: A Creative Writing Project with Prison Staff.
Queer Flowers: Queer Erotics, Mourning, and Utopias in the Art of Flowers from the 1920s to the 1980s (2024)
Thesis
Li, W. Queer Flowers: Queer Erotics, Mourning, and Utopias in the Art of Flowers from the 1920s to the 1980s. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4867124“The analogies between women and flowers have a long history in sex ideology” (Pollock: 2007: 106). Yet queer readings of flowers are sometimes different from heterosexual and patriarchal perspective. Some gender-queer artists have refused to see flo... Read More about Queer Flowers: Queer Erotics, Mourning, and Utopias in the Art of Flowers from the 1920s to the 1980s.
(In)Human Entity: A Study of the ‘Living’ Doll in Contemporary Horror (2024)
Thesis
Mills, S. (2023). (In)Human Entity: A Study of the ‘Living’ Doll in Contemporary Horror. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4963735This thesis, as the first full length study of dolls and horror, provides an extensive examination of the ‘living’ doll figure in contemporary horror narratives. Dolls have been a significant feature of the horror genre for decades and their prevalen... Read More about (In)Human Entity: A Study of the ‘Living’ Doll in Contemporary Horror.