Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research (CTWR)

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The Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research links writers, academics and Lancaster University’s postgraduate student community to extensive research activity in creative writing and its impact on society.

Its aims is to create a transnational and interdisciplinary environment. Members are committed to promoting creative writing across cultures and to studying the work of writers from a wide range of social and cultural contexts.

The Centre encompasses research-as-practice, action-research projects, study of historical and contemporary creative practice, the innovative application of information technology through e-science and the interrelationship between writing and social change. It promotes critical, pedagogical and theoretical accounts of praxis with special emphasis on cultural exchange between practitioners and with social and political institutions.

The activities of the Centre stimulate and explore creative process – its definition through textual production, mobility, publication, transmission, adaptation, re-writing and translation – and its theoretical and cultural context. Since its inception in 2006, the Centre has raised the profile of a range of pre-existing transcultural and intercultural research activities, including Crossing Borders, Radiophonics, Moving Manchester and Trans-Scriptions.

Past events included a new series of Trans-Scriptions, entitled ‘Writing for Liberty’, which was funded by a generous donation from Lancaster University Friends Fund and a searchable archive of current resources, enabled by Lancaster’s FASS Capital Expenditure Fund.

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No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2006

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Lancaster University
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