Writer
Writing
Retreat West, guest blog post, UK, 15 September 2023
Refraction in writing distorts and angles and thus creates new ways of seeing, sliding us sometimes subtly between stories, and sometimes brashly. Writing with refraction as my chief tool, meant that neither of the stories in The Devil Comes to Bonn could be told in a straightforward manner; they interrupt each other constantly, sometimes only a page separates them. The aim of the sudden halt of one story and jolting re-starting of the other creates a space for readers to ponder beyond the compulsion of the narrative drive of ‘what next?’ - Jennifer Harris
Academic Work
Academic interests that flow into my fiction are reflected in this selection of papers:
2019, “Juxtaposed concepts of place” in Ann Davis and Kerstin Smeds, eds, Museum and Place, ICOFOM, Paris.
2015, “Metaphor in social history museums,” Complutum, 26(2), pp.121-131.
2014, “The past in the present: using poetics as an interpretative strategy at Pasargadae” in Ali Mozaffari, ed., World Heritage in Iran: Perspectives on Pasargadae, Farnham, UK, Ashgate Publishing Ltd.
2011, “Guerilla art, social value and absent heritage fabric,” International Journal of Heritage Studies, vol. 17(3), pp.214-229.
2010, “Memorials and trauma: Pinjarra 1834” in Michael Broderick and Antonio Traverso, eds, Interrogating Trauma, Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
1999(a), “Learning from popular culture: interpretation, visitors and critique,” International Journal of Heritage Studies, V (3&4), pp.135-148.
Books
