Curriculum Vitae

Will Buckingham
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Curriculum Vitae

Creative Writing Projects

7/2007 – 3/2008. BBC short story commission with the West Midlands Readers Network and the Walsall Black Readers Group. Story to be read at 2007 Birmingham Book Festival and broadcast on BBC Radio4 in March 2008.

4/2005 – Present. Write On. Workshop leader in schools for Write On project, run by Book Communications, Birmingham, undertaking five week writing residencies in a variety of primary and secondary schools.

1/2005 – Present. Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham. Writer-in-residence. As well as running a staff writing group, between 2005 and 2006 I worked on the development of the hospital’s Medical Humanities collection in the Library.

5/2005 – 10/2005. Spooked. Co-ordinator of a community literature project in Kings Norton, Birmingham. www.wearespooked.net

10/2004 – 5/2005 Writing Poems and Story-Making: workshops for the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth, working with groups aged 11-13 and 14-16.

9/2004 – 1/2005. Three Estates Life Magazine Kings’ Norton. Writer in residence.

9/2004 – Present. Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Creative writing tutor.

9/2004. Introduction to Creative Writing. Erasmus Darwin House, Lichfield.

6/2004 Going Underground. One week residency at Ninestiles School in Acocks Green, Birmingham working with a group of ten sixth-formers writing and performing a new theatre piece inspired by the comedies of Aristophanes.

3/2003 – 10/2005. Gordon Franks Training and Personnel. Occasional tutor in creative writing and communication skills for groups of disaffected young people, aged 16-18.

1/2004 – Present. Cadbury College. Creative Writing Tutor

9/2002 – Present. Tutor in creative writing at Selly Oak Centre.

5/2003 – 8/2003. AXIS. Tutoring creative writing for groups of Asian women with mental health difficulties. Project with AXIS, Birmingham City Council mental health agency.

4/2003 – 8/2003. King’s Norton Library. Co-ordinated Creative writing project run as a part of the New Deal for Communities.

Philosophy Teaching.

1/2005 – Present. Staffordshire University. Lecturer in Philosophy.

  • The Ethics of Life and Death
  • Philosophy, Life and Existence
  • Tradition and Revolution: epistemology from Locke to Levinas.
  • The Philosophy of Religion
  • Plato’s Republic – and Introductory Course
  • Philosophy Goes to the Movies.

1/2005 – Present. Botanical Gardens. Philosophy tutor on short courses in philosophy and ethics.

  • An Introduction to Consciousness
  • Ethics in the Modern World
  • Philosophy: The Greeks
  • Ethical Philosophy
  • An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy
  • Art and Religion: Images and Power

9/2003 – 6/2006. Boldmere Centre. Tutor in Philosophy.

  • Philosophy from Heraclitus to Heidegger

Publications, Conferences and Papers.

Cargo Fever Tindal Street Press: my first novel, set in Indonesia, published by Tindal Street Press in March 2007.

Aesthetica: reviews of John Banville’s The Sea, Danielle Trussoni’s Falling Through the Earth and Russell Banks’s Rule of the Bone

Contemporary Buddhism (forthcoming): reviews of Empty Persons, Personal Identity and Buddhist Philosophy by Mark Siderits and Buddhist Inclusivism

Forthcoming: Writing and Blasphemy. In forthcoming volume to be published by Rodopi press.

Forthcoming: “Monobibliomania” in Future Literature, Future Criticism conference proceedings.

3/07. British Society for Literature and Science Second Conference. Italo Calvino and Lucretius: Fiction, Science and the Reconciliation with the World.

10/06. Levinas Centenary Conference. Sofia University, Bulgaria. ‘Otherwise than Levinas: Crossing Over from Transcendence to Traversal’.

9/06. Journal of Contemporary Religious Theory. Review of Brent S. Plate’s ‘Walter Benjamin, Religion and Aesthetics.’

7/06. Philosophy in Review. Review of ‘For More Than One Voice’ by Adriana Cavarero.

3/06. ‘Beyond the River Sambatyon.’ Paper at Princeton University ACLA conference 2006.

3/05. ‘Monobibliomania’. Paper at Inter-disciplinary.net’s Future Literature, Future Criticism project in Prague, 2005.

11/2004. ‘Wisdom, Love and the Task of Philosophy’. Paper at Liverpool University’s Philosohpy as a Way of Life conference 2004.

10/2004. ‘Learning to Swim.’ Paper at the National Association of Writers’ in Education 2004 conference and AGM, College of St. John, York.

2001-2005. Reviewer and reviews editor for Dharma Life Magazine. See this section of the website for some sample reviews.
h4. Education.

9/2002 – 7/2007: PhD Philosophy. Staffordshire University. Thesis title Naive Phenomenology: Thinking Ethics Through Stories

9/2001 – 1/2002: City and Guilds 7307 stage 1. South Birmingham College.

9/1995 – 7/1997: MA Social Anthropology. University of Durham. Work on art and religion in Indonesia, and on caste and religious change in contemporary India.

9-1994 – 5/1995: Universitas Pattimura, Ambon. Co-ordinated research project under auspices of LIPI, the Indonesian Institute for Sciences, studying art, religion and social change in Tanimbar, Maluku.

9/1990 – 4/1994: BA (Hons) Fine Art and Art History. 2:1. University of Newcastle Upon Tyne.

Other Information.

Excellent PC skills. Reading knowledge of French, basic Bulgarian and good, if rusty, Indonesian. Full, clean driver’s licence.
I am member of the National Association of Writers in Education, Lapidus and of the National Association for Literature Development.