Dr Angela Szczepaniak
About
Biography
Angela Szczepaniak's writing on and off the page focuses primarily on multi-genre work—books that blend fiction, poetry, graphic art/design, and illustration among other forms. Her research interests include a variety of contemporary forms, including graphic novel, innovative poetry and fiction, visual/concrete poetry and fiction, cross-genre literary works, writing for digital/new media, hypertexts, and film. She is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Surrey.
ResearchResearch interests
Creative Writing (prose, poetry, hybrid genre and mixed media writing); contemporary literature; graphic narrative.
Research interests
Creative Writing (prose, poetry, hybrid genre and mixed media writing); contemporary literature; graphic narrative.
Publications
This book-length poem is rooted in research that explores expressions of anxiety through the intersections between oral, aural, and visual properties of language, drawing upon the theoretical underpinnings and poetic techniques of 20th-21stCentury sound poetry. Manifested through the conceit of a stage performance, Nerves notably treats the page itself as a dynamic performance space (i.e. these poems are intended not merely as performance scores, but as printed poems that explicitly engage with their medium). It critically engages with lexicons of anxiety, as figured in fields such as clinical psychology, social sciences, and popular culture, with a particular emphasis on deconstructing the language of the wellness industry to reconfigure and recontextualise it through slapstick poetic play.
This collection engages with the materiality of language in a book that fuses graphic narrative, poetry, typeface, and digital design to explore the power of humour as a tool of social critique
This novel-in-poems repurposes the language of historical conduct manuals to reconstruct perceptions of gendered domestic spaces as centres of power and bodily autonomy with a playful rescripting of the lexicon of social etiquette.