Centre for Creative and Critical Thought

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Based in English within the School of Media, Arts and Humanities, the Centre has developed out of longstanding research and teaching interests at Sussex (especially in Critical Theory) and is by its nature inter- and trans-disciplinary.

The Centre for Creative and Critical Thought seeks to foster conversation, debate and reflection, and to provide a forum for innovative experimental work in writing, teaching and the arts. Members are interested in creative and critical work that engages with contemporary concerns: social justice, the purpose of the university, the environment, and the possibilities of experiment and invention, innovation and transformation in teaching and writing.

Work linked to the Centre pursues a range of critical perspectives in this context. The Centre encourages students, colleagues and members of the public to ask: What is creative writing anyway? Why is it now such a popular subject of study at university? Where might the critical study of creative writing lead?

At the same time members are interested in the ways in which great poems, plays, novels and short stories invariably have a critical character as well. And thus members also ask: What is the purpose of criticism? How does critical writing accommodate or perhaps come to be inextricably bound up with creative writing? What is happening to creative and critical writing today?

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University of Sussex
Brighton