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Contact details
- Email lorna.gibb@stir.ac.uk
About me
Lorna Gibb joined Stirling in 2022. Prior to that she was the Head of Creative writing at the University of Hertfordshire. After an early academic career as a theoretical phonologist, Lorna worked in IT, first as a programmer then leading projects in speech technology for a variety of city firms. She returned to academia by way of an academic post in Qatar, teaching contracts at the University of Menton and the International University of Monaco and the publication of the first two of her mainstream books, biographies of Lady Hester Stanhope and Dame Rebecca West. She has given a British Academy lecture tour in Serbia and been an invited speaker in Leiden, Poland, Cyprus, Spain and the US. She has spoken at many UK Literary Festivals including Aye Write, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Dartington, Cheltenham and Wilderness. In addition to four non fiction books, she has written a novel and lots of short stories, articles and features for publications including Granta Magazine, Diva, The Telegraph, Red Magazine, La Piccioletta Barca, and academic articles about her research interests.
Research
Lorna is interested in the fiction and non-fiction overlap, autofiction and biography, global issues around women's reproductive health, minority languages, linguistic activism, Spiritualism, Thelema and travel writing. She would love to hear from PhD students interested in writing about or within any of the following areas: Creative Writing - Fiction and Non Fiction. Memoir, Biography, Gothic Novels, Ghosts and Vampires. Travel Writing. Linguistics (Phonology). Linguistics for non specialists. Biographical Novels. Rebecca West. Lady Hester Stanhope. 19th and 20th Century Mediums. Women's Reproductive Health. Endometriosis. Infertility. International Health Awareness.
Outputs (17)
Outputs
Website Content
Interview on Childlessness Stigma
Gibb L (2024) Interview on Childlessness Stigma. thenomobookclub [Interview] 09.04.2024. https://thenomobookclub.wixsite.com/otherwords/lornagibb
Composition
Gibb L (2023) The Sheepdogs of St Kilda. [Flash Fiction in "Pushing out the Boat" - Issue 17] SCO, p. 61. https://www.pushingouttheboat.co.uk/issue-17/
Conference Paper (unpublished)
Gibb L (2023) Teaching with CHAZOP: A Structured, Collaborative Creative Writing Workshop Process Informed by Software Engineering. Menon C (Project Member) EACWP, Madrid, 04.05.2023-06.05.2023.
Book Chapter
Gibb L (2022) The Unborn Child Listens. In: Suspense & Fright: a collection of short stories: Book 4 in the Rebel Iris Collection of Short Stories. Rebel Iris Collection of short stories. Chicago: Rebel Iris.
Composition
Gibb L (2022) Coiled Shells. Texas: University of Texas. https://www.porterhousereview.org/articles/coiled-shells/
Composition
Gibb L (2022) Coming Full Circle. Glasgow. https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2022/06/30/coming-full-circle/ 30th June 2022.
Composition
Gibb L (2021) I learn My True Nature. [https://www.picciolettabarca.com/posts/i-learn-my-true-nature]. Italy. https://www.picciolettabarca.com/posts/i-learn-my-true-nature
Authored Book
Childless Voices: Stories of Longing, Loss, Resistance and Choice
Gibb L (2020) Childless Voices: Stories of Longing, Loss, Resistance and Choice. First ed. London: Granta. https://granta.com/products/childless-voices/
Audio
Writing It Down with Lorna Gibb and Annie Kirby
Gibb L (2019) Writing It Down with Lorna Gibb and Annie Kirby. thefullstoppod.com [Podcast episode] 07.2019.
Article
Reflections on my book Childless Voices
Gibb L (2019) Reflections on my book Childless Voices. Women's History Review, 28 (5), pp. 814-816. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2019.1602960
Authored Book
Gibb L (2016) A Ghost's Story. London: Granta. https://granta.com/products/a-ghosts-story/
Other
Janet Ellis and Lorna Gibb Reading
Ellis J & Gibb L Janet Ellis and Lorna Gibb Reading.
Article
The 'Red Cross' Concentration Camp in Nis, Serbia
Gibb L (2014) The 'Red Cross' Concentration Camp in Nis, Serbia. The Holocaust in History and Memory, 7 (6), pp. 47-57.
Authored Book
West's World: The Extraordinary Life of Dame Rebecca West
Gibb L (2014) West's World: The Extraordinary Life of Dame Rebecca West. London: Pan Macmillan. https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/lorna-gibb/wests-world/9780330464734
Article
Gibb L (2014) Procedure. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 11 (3), pp. 279-282. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-014-9540-5
Authored Book
Lady Hester: Queen of the East
Gibb L (2006) Lady Hester: Queen of the East. London: Faber.
Teaching
Creative Writing UG and PG Linguistics PG Supervision PhD supervision.