About
A brief description of who you are and what you do.
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Write about yourself in the third person. Aim for 100 to 150 words covering the main points about who you are and what you currently do. Clear, simple language is best. You can include specialist or technical terms.
You’ll be able to add details about your research, publications, career and academic history to other sections of your staff profile.
Research
Research interests
- The cultural and emotional inter-relationship of the sea, the human and the animal.
Current research
Writing and curating The Sea, a short book for the Tate, drawing on representations of the sea in the collections of Tate Britain and Tate Modern, Tate Publishing, November, 2022. Essay on Derek Jarman's 1972 film, At Low Tide, for Inque magazine, November 2022, Introduction for Derek Jarman's unpublished story, Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping, House Sparrow Press, November 2022. Essay on Derek Jarman's Prospect Cottage for Port magazine, autumn 2022.
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Research groups
Any research groups you belong to will automatically appear on your profile. Speak to your line manager if these are incorrect. Please do not raise a ticket in Ask HR.
Research interests
Add up to 5 research interests. The first 3 will appear in your staff profile next to your name. The full list will appear on your research page. Keep these brief and focus on the keywords people may use when searching for your work. Use a different line for each one.
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Current research
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Describe your current research in 100 to 200 words. Write in the third person. Include broad key terms to help people discover your work, for example, “sustainability” or “fashion textiles”.
Research projects
Research Council funded projects will automatically appear here. The active project name is taken from the finance system.
Publications
Public outputs that list you as an author will appear here, once they’re validated by the ePrints Team. If you’re missing any outputs that you’ve added to Pure, they may be waiting for validation.
Supervision
Contact your Faculty Operating Service team to update PhD students you supervise and any you’ve previously supervised. Making this information available will help potential PhD applicants to find you.
Teaching
Modules
- 'Act of the Essay' - lecture
- Creative Writing Skills - lectures, seminars & field trips
- Narrative Non-Fiction - lectures, seminars & field trips
- PhD supervision
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Courses and modules
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External roles and responsibilities
These are the public-facing activities you’d like people to know about.
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Biography
Philip Hoare is the author of nine works of non-fiction, including biographies of Stephen Tennant and Noël Coward, and the studies, Wilde's Last Stand and England's Lost Eden. Spike Island was chosen by W.G. Sebald as his book of the year for 2001. In 2009, Hoare's Leviathan or, The Whale won the 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. It was followed in 2013 by The Sea Inside, and in 2017 by RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR. His latest book, Albert & the Whale, (20210 led the New York Times to call the author a 'forceful weather system' of his own, and has been published in the UK, USA, Spain, Germany and Italy. He is also a regular contributor to The Guardian, and numberous other periodicals and magazines
His work as an artist includes the short film for the John Hansard Gallery, I was a dark star always, about Wilfred Owen, with readings by Ben Whishaw. He has collaborated with and written for other artists including Ellen Gallagher, Alison Turnbull, Peter Doig, George Shaw, and Angela Cockayne.
His work as a director, writer and broadcaster includes the BBC 2 films, The Hunt for Moby-Dick, Philip Hoare's Guide to Whales, Travels with Pevsner: Hampshire, and Isostasy. His curatorial work includes Icons of Pop at the National Portrait Gallery, Twentieth-Century Blues at the Photographers’ Gallery, The Haunted Place at Tate Britain, and Derek Jarman's Modern Nature at the John Hansary Gallery. He is also co-curator, with Angela Cockayne, of the digital projects www.mobydickbigread.com and www.ancientmarinerbigread.com, featuring readings from Tilda Swinton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Iggy Pop, Hilary Mantel, Jeanette Winterson, Willen Dafoe, Marianne Faithfull, Stephen Fry and many others.
www.philiphoare.co.uk Twitter: @philipwhale
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Prizes
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