Dr Lisa Gee

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Department of Film and Creative Writing
Assistant Professor in Creative Writing and Digital Media

Contact details

Address
Department of Film and Creative Writing
University 麻豆精选
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Lisa is co-editor with Professor Max Saunders of the digital publication   (Stanford University Press, 2023). She has contributed a chapter – ‘Digital Editions: rethinking how we preserve, present and explore literary correspondences’ – to the  (August 2023).

She leads the Discovering Creative Practice modules on the University’s new Digital Media and Communications BA

Lisa is currently co-editing William Hayley: A Biographer’s Influence on Long Eighteenth-Century Life Writing Networks for Palgrave Studies in Life Writing with , and the pilot edition of her digital project, A Museum of Relationships: the correspondence of William Hayley 1745–1820.

In her previous role as Research Fellow in Future Thinking, Lisa worked with Max developing a network and project(s) exploring different modes of thinking about the future. She was Programme Director and editor for the first set of FUTURES essays, Associate Research Fellow at the Centre for Life-Writing Research at King’s College, London, and External Research Consultant on the Hayley Papers at the Fitzwilliam Museum. 

As Lead associate director of , she has been facilitating the . She is also a trustee of , a charity that works across artforms to support neurodivergent artists and celebrate neurodivergent creativity, and online facilitator for .

Lisa is the author of Stage Mum and Friends: Why Men and Women are from the Same Planet, and the editor of Bricks Without Mortar: the selected poems of Hartley Coleridge and is a regular judge for the New Media Writing Prize

Qualifications

  • PhD Digital Writing by Practice – ‘HayleyWorld: a zoeography of William Hayley (1745-1820)’, 2018, Bath Spa University
  • City & Guilds Sound & Music Technology (Distinction) 2010, City of Westminster College          
  • MA Literature and Politics 1776-1832 (Distinction) 1996, Roehampton Institute (now the University of Roehampton)
  • University Certificate in Computer Studies, 1993, University of Brighton
  • BA International Relations (2ii), 1985, University of Sussex

Biography

Prior to joining the University 麻豆精选,听 Lisa was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate on the Ego Media Project at King鈥檚 College London, where her primary responsibility was to pull together, and contribute to听 (Stanford University Press, 2023). Her PhD by Practice involved collaborating with developer Michael Kowalski to create HayleyWorld, an interactive biography of William Hayley (1745-1820). She is co-editor of William Hayley: A Biographer鈥檚 Influence on Life Writing and Romantic Networks in the Long Eighteenth Century with Mark Crosby (Palgrave Studies in Life Writing, 2025).

Lisa has worked in publishing as a publicist and, throughout the noughties, edited the Orange Prize for Fiction (now the Women鈥檚 Prize for Fiction) website, where she also sat on the Prize Management Committee. She has been Associate Director of Furner Communications Ltd for 20 years, working on a variety of accounts in the third and public sectors, most recently focusing on inclusive facilitation. She has written two non-fiction works, edited a collection of poetry, and is contributing author to several other works. She initiated and made Disequilibrium with 鈥 and about 鈥 composer and binaural sound maven Nick Ryan for BBC Radio 3鈥檚 鈥淏etween the Ears鈥 strand. The programme was selected as one of the nine best in the series鈥 history. Together with Max Saunders, she is co-originator of the听 book series, now published by Melville House.

Research

As Research Fellow in Future Thinking, Lisa worked with Professor Max Saunders on developing a network and projects exploring the impact and effectiveness of different modes of thinking about the future. As part of this work, she was Programme Director of the proof of concept set of FUTURES books, a series of essays exploring possible futures written by leading authors, thinkers and subject experts, published by听 Unbound, in conjunction with Tortoise Media in 2020.

In addition to her future-focused work, Lisa has also worked with a team at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, to develop A Museum of Relationships: a pilot digital edition of the correspondence of William Hayley (1745-1820).

Her research interests include:

  • Literature, art, culture, society, history and politics of/in the long eighteenth century
  • Creative writing
  • Digital narratives/storytelling
  • inclusive future thinking

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Gee, L 2020, '', European Journal of Life Writing, vol. 9.

Chapter

Gee, L 2023, . in A Ensslin, J Round & B Thomas (eds), The Routledge Companion to Literary Media. 1st edn, Routledge Literature Companions, Routledge, pp. 244-254.

Digital or Visual Products

Gee, L, , 2021, Digital or Visual Products. <>

Web publication/site

Gee, L, Billingsley, N, Reynolds, S, Doji, G, Pett, D, van Kemenade, P & Steinbr眉ck, A, , 2021, Web publication/site, University of Cambridge. <>