Elected 2005
Director, Master of Studies in Creative Writing, Oxford University Department for Continuing Education
Director, Kellogg College Centre for Creative Writing
Clare Morgan is a novelist and short story writer, whose interdisciplinary research interests currently focus on creative writing, and on the relation between literature and business. She has recently engaged in the research project ‘Living with Rivers’, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, which explores the role of creative writing in environmental issues. She has also worked closely with the Strategy Institute of The Boston Consulting Group in investigating the relation between poetry and business thinking, giving lectures and presentations and running workshops in many locations in the USA, continental Europe and the UK, as well as in Tokyo and Kuwait. The book from her research, What Poetry Brings to Business, (Ann Arbor/University of Michigan Press) is forthcoming in Spring 2010.
Dr Morgan’s teaching interests include British literature nineteenth century to the present day, and advanced fiction and critical analysis. Her creative writing focuses on short and long fiction, her publications include a collection of short stories and her work has been widely anthologized and commissioned for radio. She is a regular reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement and her literary critical publications include an edition of Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindications; essays on Willa Cather, George Orwell and Virginia Woolf; and an essay on Romance and the Post-Modern Novel, focusing on the work of Iris Murdoch and A S Byatt.
Dr Morgan designed and implemeted Oxford University’s first creative writing course for matriculated students, the Master of Studies in Creative Writing, which she now directs. Her professional offices have included: Chair of the Literature Bursaries Panel, Arts Council of Wales; member of the Academic Advisory Board, Henley Management College; assessor for grant-aided publication, Arts Council of Wales; Fellow of the Strategy Institute, The Boston Consulting Group. She has been Sidney Holgate Visiting Fellow, University of Durham, and Gregynog Arts Fellow, University of Wales. She has been External Assessor for Bath Spa University and External Examiner in Creative Writing for Birkbeck and Bristol Universities. She established the Kellogg College Centre for Creative Writing, which is dedicated to promoting excellence in creative writing research and to generating a vibrant writerly community through events and Masterclasses with writers of international reputation such as Julian Barnes, Simon Armitage and Audrey Niffenegger.Kellogg College Centre for Creative Writing webpage.