Lena Kraus

Thesis title: Held / Chronology and Reader Response - Effects of Chronological Irregularities

Biography

Background

L. K. Kraus is a writer, editor, and literary translator with connections to Germany, Cornwall and Norway, who lives by the North Sea in Scotland. She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Hillfire Press and the Managing Director of The Selkie. Pursuing a PhD in creative writing at the University of Edinburgh, she is currently working on her first novel. Her work has been published in Riptide Journal, From Arthur’s Seat and in the Together Anthology. When she is not at her desk, she can usually be found paddling to the Bass Rock and back.

Responsibilities & affiliations

Hillfire Press (Founder and EIC)

The Selkie (MD)

Phoenix Education Trust (Guardian Member)

SOA (Society of Authors), VDÜ (German Translators' Association), UCU (University and College Union) (Memberships)

Research summary

Reader response, meritocracy and concepts of achievement, equity in sports

Current research interests

Reader response

Past research interests

Accessibility of (secondary) education settings, maritocracy and concepts of achievement, equity in sports

Project activity

Focus group research into how unusual chronologies shape the reading experience.

Invited speaker

Point Sud - StiAS - University of Cape Town  - Narratives of Achievement in African and Afroeuropean Contexts

http://pointsud.org/wp-content/uploads/Online-Version-Narratives-of-Achievement-Stellenbosch.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340261651_Introduction_Narratives_of_achievement_in_African_and_Afroeuropean_contexts

Papers delivered

Alternative narratives of achievement and Democratic Education - a model for a few?

https://doi.org/10.25838/hhubooks.21.42

In the press

Showing up (for each other) in sports: Podcast for UK Coaching, in conversation with Marianne Davies: 

https://www.ukcoaching.org/resources/topics/podcasts/coach-developer-conversations-(s3)-(ep-4)-lena?fbclid=IwAR0YoVr8iqfrd-RbX7FHhRwP1EWl0wWyr6XBFlx1_H6Bt5WgkpU7PqBUYmg

Author interview with Riptide Journal (blog article and podcast): 

http://www.riptidejournal.co.uk/qa-with-riptide-14-author-l-k-kraus/   https://open.spotify.com/episode/1bbQGwBqfeyEvblApLz3Ta

Hillfire Anthology Volume 1 Launch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5m79oN84N4

'Will-o-the-Wisp' in Hillfire Anthology V1

'Cramond Island' in Riptide Journal V14

'Sherwood' in From Arthur's Seat V5

'Lovestream' in Together Anthology

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