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DrGeorgia Poplett

Teaching Fellow

SCAPVC - Warwick Writing Programme

  • Teaching Fellow
    SCAPVC - Warwick Writing Programme

ABOUT

Dr Georgia Poplett is a writer, editor, and researcher. Her debut novel, She Herself is a Haunted House, was nominated for the 2025 Deborah Rogers Award. She is a Teaching Fellow on the Warwick Writing Programme, for which she is also the Widening Participation Officer and convenes the Warwick Thursday series for 2026/27. She has taught at Durham, UCL, and most recently Exeter where she was a Lecturer in Creative Writing.

 

She holds Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA with Dean's Commendation, 2026). Her PhD on postpartum psychosis and Gothic literature from the University of Durham was awarded an AHRC Northern Bridge Consortium Doctoral Award in 2021. She also holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Birkbeck. Her fiction, essays, and interviews have appeared in Mslexia, The Mechanics' Institute Review, Lucy Writers, The Bee, The Polyphony, and elsewhere. She has been invited to present her work and writing at conferences around the world.


Previously, she was an editor for Profile Books. Her next work will be published by Anthem Press in March 2027, as part of the anthology Daphne du Maurier and Gothic Adaptation: Hauntings, Doubles, and Cultural Reimaginings (edited by Katharina Hendrickx and Amelia Crowther). She has also worked as a literary researcher for New Writing North and as a research assistant for the Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research (NNMHR). She has advised on her research for podcasts, Netflix series, and more. She is represented by Imogen Morrell at Greene & Heaton Ltd. 


Her personal website is www.georgiapoplett.com.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Teaching Fellow
    University of Warwick, Warwick Writing Programme, Coventry, United Kingdom1 Sep 2026 - present
  • Lecturer (E&S)
    University of Exeter, English and Creative Writing, Exeter, United Kingdom15 Sep 2025 - 31 Aug 2026
  • Research Assistant
    Durham University, Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham, United Kingdom1 Sep 2025 - 31 Dec 2025

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Editor
    Profile Books, United Kingdom9 Dec 2020 - 9 May 2024

DEGREES

  • PhD, Creative Writing and Medical Humanities
    Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom1 Oct 2021 - 26 Jan 2026
  • MFA, Creative Writing
    Birkbeck, University of London, London, United Kingdom1 Sep 2019 - 1 Dec 2020
  • BA (Hons), English Literature
    University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom1 Sep 2015 - 16 Jul 2018

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy
    University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
    Awarded with Dean's Commendation