Staff profiles
Professor Jane Rogers
Professor of writing
Phone 0114 225 3907
E-mail j.rogers@shu.ac.uk
Research interests/current work
I teach on the MA Writing, working with novelists and short story writers. I tutor novelists up to publication. Recently published MA tutees include Marina Lewycka, Liz Kettle, Lily Dunn and Bill Hussey.
I have recently completed a novel set in the future, 'The Testament of Jessie Lamb'. Future projects include a Classic Serial adaptation of Wharton's 'The Custom of the Country'.
Research collaborations
Visiting research fellow, University of Adelaide, Australia
Prof Invitee, Sorbonne IV, May 2008
Research outputs since 2001
Books
The Voyage Home, London, Little Brown 2004, Abacus 2005 (novel) (and in USA by The Overlook Press, 2004, and in Germany as 'Die Tochter des Missionars' , Verlagsgruppe Random House, 2006)
Ellipsis 2, Short stories by Jane Rogers, Polly Clark, Zoe Lambert, Manchester, Comma Press 2006
Journal articles; 'The Experiment', New Writing 14 ed H. Habila and L. Greenlaw, Picador 2006
The Good Fiction Guide, editor, Oxford University Press 2001, pp495, paperback OUP 2002, Revised and updated edition 2005
Exhibitions
Other publications - radio drama
The Age of Innocence, Classic Serial adaptation for BBC r4, tx January 2008
Dear Writer, Afternoon play, BBCr4, tx April 2008
The Bottle factory Outing, adapted from Beryl Bainbridge novel, tx BBC r4, 30.07.05
Lorna Doone, 10 part Woman's Hour serial, tx BBC r4 Dec 2004
The Inland Sea, Friday night play, tx BBC r4 29.10.04
Island, Friday night play, tx BBC r 4 13.12.02
Shirley, 3 hour classic serial adaptation of C.Bronte's novel, tx BBC r4 July 2002
