Matthew De Abaitua
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Email
mjdeab@essex.ac.uk -
Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 872853
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Location
5NW.4.17, Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
I am currently not teaching as I am head of department.
Profile
Biography
I welcome PhD proposals in Creative Writing in prose fiction. I'm particularly interested in science fiction and literary fiction novels.
Qualifications
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MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia.
Appointments
糖心Vlog
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Director of Education, Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS), 糖心Vlog (1/9/2020 - 1/7/2022)
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Head of Department, Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies, 糖心Vlog (1/7/2022 - present)
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Artificial Intelligence narratives
Writing and studying narratives that connect to AI and climate change
Climate fiction
I am currently working on fictions and experimental narratives based on the concept of the Climate Artist.
Speculative autofiction
Combining memoir and speculative fiction to create a form called speculative autofiction.
Current research
The Climate Artist
A completed science fiction novel exploring epigenetics and climate change.
Artificial Imagination
Combining neuroscientific insight into the imagination with novelistic practice to create a novel and a proposed documentary series.
Conferences and presentations
The Climate Artist
Invited presentation, Organic Systems: Science Fiction & Ecology Today, London, United Kingdom, 2/5/2019
Artificial Imagination: strange tools and the novel
Invited presentation, Keynote presentation, AISB, Falmouth, United Kingdom, 18/4/2019
Artificial Imagination: Dreams and Delusions of AI
Invited presentation, Dot York, 4/10/2018
The Climate Artist
Invited presentation, Not I, Jerwood, London, United Kingdom, 15/9/2018
Class matters
Invited presentation, Greenwich Book Festival, Book Festival, London, United Kingdom, 16/6/2018
Author Confidential
Invited presentation, Stoke Newington Literary Festival, Stoke Newington Literary Festival, London, United Kingdom, 2/6/2018
AI Narratives:
Invited presentation, How do we talk about AI? workshop, London, United Kingdom, 3/5/2018
Life, the Universe and Everything: Science Fictional Responses to the Epistemological Question
Invited presentation, Eastercon, Eastercon, London, United Kingdom, 31/3/2018
The Future of Cities
Invited presentation, Keynote presentation, Eastercon, Eastercon, London, United Kingdom, 30/3/2018
'How to Teach Genre' with Dr Celia Brayfield at English Shared Futures, 2017.
2017
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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The Writer's Toolkit (LT191)
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Writing the Short Story (LT219)
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The Beginning of a Novel (LT346)
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Understanding and Writing Science Fiction (LT367)
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Writing the Novel (LT908)
Current supervision
Previous supervision
Degree subject: Creative Writing
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 29/3/2023
Degree subject: Creative Writing
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 17/2/2023
Degree subject: Creative Writing
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 24/1/2020
Publications
Journal articles (2)
De Abaitua, M., (2017). . Foundation: the international review of science fiction (128)
De Abaitua, M., (2016). . New Scientist (3104)
Books (4)
De Abaitua, M., (2019). . Eye Books. 9781785630798
De Abaitua, M., (2016). . Angry Robot. 9780857664747
De Abaitua, M., (2015). . Angry Robot. 9780857664716
De Abaitua, M., (2011). Alan Moore interview
Book chapters (1)
De Abaitua, M., (2022). Sordid Novels and Preposterous Masculine Fictions: Introduction to Rose Macaulay's What Not. In: What Not. MIT Press. 9780262544306
Media (1)
De Abaitua, M., The Dolittle Machine. Audio
Contact
Academic support hours:
I am currently not teaching as I am head of department.
