Dr Charlie Lee-Potter

Charlie teaches nineteenth and early-twentieth century literature as well as creative writing. She has doctorates in both English Literature and Fine Art and her research interests include the expression and interpretation of text via the visual image. Her book Writing the 9/11 Decade: Reportage and the Evolution of the Novel (New York: Bloomsbury Academic) examined the representation of catastrophe in fiction, painting, music and sculpture and was shortlisted for the University English Book Prize.

She was also awarded the International Créateurs Prize for Creative Journalism for her work on Auguste Rodin. Charlie is a former BBC radio and television presenter and therefore has a particular interest in literature and the spoken word. Her new poetry collection, A Line is a Breathless Length, which she wrote as the recent writer in residence at Wytham Woods, uses image and text to represent the natural landscape. She stages her poems as part of live orchestral performance and is currently working on a new collection about sanctuary. As an artist, Charlie has exhibited her work in the USA, Europe and the UK.