Carolyn Jess-Cooke

Carolyn Jess-Cooke (born 1978) is a writer and academic from Belfast, Northern Ireland. She graduated from an MA in Creative Writing and a PhD in Shakespearean cinema at The Queen's University of Belfast, and is now Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sunderland. She lives in Gateshead with her husband and daughter.

Jess-Cooke's poetry has appeared in Poetry London, Poetry New Zealand, Poetry Ireland Review, The Wolf, Magma, Poetry Wales, The Lonely Poets' Guide to Belfast, Black Mountain Review, Ambit, Tower Poetry, "The SHOp", and on a glass sculpture commissioned by the New Belfast Arts' Initiative.

Awards include a Writers' Award from the Arts Council of England (2005), a Travel Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland (2003), the Tyrone Guthrie Prize for Poetry (2004), an Eric Gregory Award (2005), second prize in the Academi Cardiff International Poetry Competition (2002), second prize in the Fivearts Cities Poetic Postcards Competition (2006), and a commendation in the New Writing Ventures Poetry Competition (2006). She has performed at the Ledbury Poetry Festival, the Poetry Society cafe in London, and the Sydney Writers' Festival, during a residency at the Varuna Writers' Centre. Previously a travel photographer, she has held two exhibitions combining her poetry and photography at the Belfast Central Library (2003) and Belfast's Waterfront Hall (2004). A first collection, "Inroads", is forthcoming.

Recent and forthcoming academic work includes "Shakespeare on film: Such Things as Dreams Are Made Of (Wallflower Press, June 2007),¹, 'Virtualizing the Real: Sequelization and Secondary Memory in Steven Spielberg's "Artificial Intelligence', Screen 2006 47(3):347-365;²' "Film Sequels: Theory and Practice from Hollywood to Bollywood" (Edinburgh University Press, 2008), "Second Takes: Critical Approaches to the Sequel" (co-edited with Constantine Verevis, State University of New York Press, 2009), and "Apocalyptic Shakespeares" (co-edited with Melissa Croteau, McFarland, 2009).

Jess-Cooke is also a co-director of up-and-coming UK consumer review website, Myrecommend.co.uk.

References

*¹Available at http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shakespeare-Film-Things-Dreams-Short/dp/1905674147/ref=sr_1_1/026-8954584-2462861?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187203615&sr=8-1
*² Available at http://screen.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/47/3/347

External links

A sample of Carolyn Jess-Cooke's poetry is available here: [http://www.newwritingpartnership.org.uk/fp/aspen/public/getFile.asp?field_name=FILE&class_name=DOCUMENT&instanceid=1856806&context=747673] .

A sample of Carolyn Jess-Cooke's academic work is available here: [http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/article.php?issue=8&id=241]