University of Essex

Returning to university study in the year of her divorce, thirteen years after her BA, MW completed an MA at Essex University in the Sociology of Literature.

EF was an Assistant Lecturer in Literature at the newly founded University of Essex , beginning with one single lecture a week; during this period she was introduced to Russian literature.

In 1994 MW took a position teaching creative writing in the department of literature, film and theatre studies at the University of Essex . This was a new experience for her, though she had already...

After leaving her first marriage MR got a position in summer 1987 as Theatre Writer in Residence at Essex University , on the strength of her ideas about theatre and the first play which she...

At Essex UniversityMR met the man who eventually became her second husband, Jim Latter , who ran the art gallery at the university where she was Theatre Writer in Residence. They were soon going...

Lowell, her third husband, was called by his friends Cal, short for Caligula). In spring 1970, at a time when his bipolar disorder was making him crazy, he stayed the night at CB 's London...

The writer Donald Davie , who was appointed the first Chair of Comparative Literature at Essex , was instrumental in Feinstein's appointment to a lectureship there. Within a few years, after publishing her first slim...

The Joint Stock theatre company's production of Fen, a play by CC about rural workers, opened at the University of Essex .

According to Eric Homberger in the Times Literary Supplement, the Sociology of Literature Conference held at the University of Essex was dominated by the names of Lacan , Derrida , and Kristeva .

After landing her job at Essex University , MR moved to digs in the waterside village of Wivenhoe. She is, however, still a Londoner, and also has a little shoebox-shaped house on...

MR became obsessed with the story of Psyche and Eros after reading The Golden Ass by Apuleius . What she wanted to write about Psyche (to whom she ascribes the agency in her desire) was...

MW has addressed the current shift in the aims and conditions of British universities, first in a Diary column for the London Review of Books in September 2014 (in which she tells the story of...