You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience.

Having trouble viewing in Internet Explorer 11? We're working on this. For the best user experience please try using a different web browser.

Skip to main content Skip to search
  • Study
  • Research & Innovation
  • Experience
HomeStaff profilesDr David Devanny

Dr David Devanny

Course Leader, BA(Hons) Creative Writing

Overview
David is a lecturer and PhD candidate at Falmouth University. He is a poet and multimedia artist. His research uses both quantitative and qualitative data to perform a cultural analysis of poetry publication, specifically with regards to digitisation. He has presented research at a number of peer-reviewed conferences including E-Poetry, The British and Irish Contemporary Poetry Symposium and the Electronic Literature Organisation (for more details about research please see section below). David co-runs the specialist poetry publishing house The New Fire Tree Press and teaches in the School of Writing & Journalism.

Creative Work
David's print work has appeared in a wide variety of magazines and anthologies, including Poetry Review, The Warwick Review and The London Magazine. He was awarded the Ictus Prize for the pamphlet Wasps on the Way (Mews Press, 2012). He also has a developing portfolio of digital work; David is a contributor in Ishac Bertran’s Code {Poems} anthology of digital code poetry and was the winner of The New Media Writing Prize 2013 Student Award, and shortlisted for both Main and Student awards. His digital work has been reviewed at the peer-reviewed conference Chercher Le Texte (Paris 2013), in the Montreal magazine Poeme Sale (Spring 2014), and he was recently interviewed about digital literature on BBC Radio Cornwall.

David has also enjoyed taking poetry and text art into a variety of performance and exhibition spaces, presenting and exhibiting multimedia poetry in a number of funded site-specific installations and performances including at the Bradford Magistrates Court (2010), the Prado Media Lab - National Museum of Spain (2013), E-Poetry (2013), the Glasgow School of Art (2014), Fascinate International Digital Arts Festival (2014), the Hatton Gallery (2015), Husk Arts Centre (2015) and the Phoenix Cube Digital Art Gallery (2015). In 2014 he won a substantial commission to create new media site specific responses as part of the research project Affective Digital Historied lead by Leicester University, some of which was published in a GPS multimedia art app by Cuttlefish Media.

  • A collaborative installation at the Hatton Gallery
  • crowstep - Leicester Centre for New Writing Commission
  • The New Fire Tree Press
Emaild.devanny@falmouth.ac.uk
Telephone01326 259210
  • Qualifications
  • Research Interests
  • Research Outputs
  • Teaching

    Qualifications

    Qualifications

    YearQualificationAwarding body
    2012
    MA Writing
    Sheffield Hallam University
    2010
    BA (Hons) English Literature and Creative Writing
    Warwick University

    Research Interests

    Research interests and expertise

    My primary research interests include digital literatures, interactive text, digital education, the UK publishing industry, 19th and 20th century poetry, digital games, the future of the book, VR storytelling, higher education policy and in general, writing practices and English Literature. My PhD and subsequent research primarily centre on literary and cultural theory around digital literatures, modes of dissemination and cultural responses to digital media. I have presented literature and digital cultures research at a wide range of peer-reviewed conferences internationally and in a number of publications, including:

    Guardians of the Gutenberg Galaxy: a Cultural Analysis of Resistances to Digital Poetries
    Electronic Literature Organisation August 2015, Bergen, Norway
    Peer-Reviewed Conference Paper

    Merc’h An Eog
    Theatr Piba April-August 2015, Brittany, France
    FundedResearch and Digital Media support for an international theatre project (in aid of set design)

    Poetry as Notation of Sound – from lead type to the Xerox age
    Warwick University 2014, Coventry, UK
    Chair and project lead for funded ECR Panel

    The Reader as Performer: Decoding Responses to Digital Literatures
    Merging Media 2014, Canterbury, UK
    Presentation of Peer Reviewed Conference Paper

    Collaborative Rock-Carving in the Yorkshire Moors and the Politics of the Layer in Digital Media
    Haunted Landscapes Symposium 2014, Falmouth, UK
    Presentation of Conference Paper

    The Book is Dead, Long Live the Book!
    Glasgow School of Art 2014, Glasgow, UK
    Directed, curated and lead a funded research project in collaboration with Alan Hooper and Inga Paterson (Glasgow School of Art), involving site specific digital poetry residency for a group of poets and digital media practitioners, publications coming soon.

    Modelling the reception of content with responsive VDJ enhanced poetry
    E-Poetry 2013, London, UK
    Presentation of Peer-reviewed Conference Paper

    New Hysterical Reading – New Media Reading and Lacan’s Discourse of the Hysteric
    Fascinate Digital Arts 2013, Falmouth, UK
    Presentation of Peer-reviewed Conference Paper & publication in conference proceedings 

    Resistance, Distinction and Liberation: Movable Type Poetry Publishing in the Digital Age          
    3rd Contemporary British and Irish International Poetry Conference 2013, Manchester, UK
    Presentation of paper and panel organiser

    HE student identity, cultural capital, and electronic resources
    Leeds Metropolitan University & Partnership Colleges Teaching and Learning Symposium 2011, Bradford, UK
    Funded research project, peer-reviewed conference paper and publication   
     

    Research topics

    • 19th and 20th century poetry
    • american literature
    • digital education
    • digital games
    • digital literatures
    • G K Chesterton
    • HE Policy
    • interactive text
    • the future of the book
    • the UK publishing industry

    Research Outputs

    Publications and research outputs

    Article

     

    Devanny, David (2016) Voice Recognition for Performance Poetry Pedgogy. Research in Drama Education, 21 (3). ISSN 1356-9783 Item availability may be restricted.
    [img]

     

    Teaching

    Courses taught

    • Creative Writing BA(Hons)
    • English and Creative Writing BA(Hons)
    • Journalism and Creative Writing BA(Hons)

    Related courses

    Course
    Course

    Creative Writing BA(Hons)

    Join our thriving writing community. Experiment with all forms of writing to find your passion and develop your writing voice. Explore audiences in...

    Course
    Course

    English and Creative Writing BA(Hons)

    Join a celebration of literature and writing. You’ll read critically and widely, learning about historic and current literature and integrating this...

    Course
    Course

    Journalism and Creative Writing BA(Hons)

    Kick-start your career as a writer, learning how to analyse, practise and publish all forms of digital journalism while also stretching your creative...

    CopyEmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInMessenger
    • Courses
    • Departments
    • Staff
    • Academic partnerships
    • Jobs
    • Corporate information
    • News
    • Alumni
    • Contact
    • Find us
    • Events
    • Staff & Student Portal
    • Falmouth Campus
      Woodlane, Falmouth
      Cornwall TR11 4RH
      01326 211077
    • Penryn Campus
      Treliever Road, Penryn
      Cornwall TR10 9FE
      01326 370400
    © Falmouth University 2021
    • Accessibility Statement
    • Data Privacy
    • Copyright
    • Terms of Use
    • Cookie Policy
    • Student Regulations

    TEF Gold Logo