Adam Vaughn

Thesis title: Rein (creative); Giving Rise to the Fall: How Lilith & Eve Become Round in Rein (critical)

Biography

Background

AV is author, poet, and screenwriter from Connecticut. AV completed their Creative Writing MSc at the University of Edinburgh in 2021, serving as the Head Prose Editor for the From Arthur’s Seat anthology. They have been shortlisted for the Grierson Verse Prize (2021) and the ScreenCraft Comedy Competition (2020). Publishing under the pseudonym Adele Voyria, their short fiction work can be found in The Los Angeles Review, Superlative, and FAS. They are currently undertaking their first novel, Rein, the focus of their Creative Writing PhD. 

Qualifications

University of Edinburgh — MSc in Creative Writing, 2021

University of California, Los Angeles — Cert. in Writing for TV, 2014

University of California, Los Angeles — Cert. in Producing, 2013

University of California, Los Angeles — Cert. in Screenwriting, 2012

University of San Diego — B.A. in English, 2011

Undergraduate teaching

I have tutored for 3 years for the School of Divinity's 'Bible in Literature' course and the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures 'Lit Studies 2A' and 'Lit Studies 2B' courses. 

Current research interests

My Creative Writing PhD consists of two parts: a creative novel and a corresponding critical essay. This dissertation reinterprets the parable of creation through an egalitarian lens, utilising feminist exegeses of myth and of Genesis to retell the story of the first women, Lilith and Eve. With the novel I take a literalist approach, the same one Augustine of Hippo used in his creation of originale peccatum, or Original Sin; the consequences of his literalist interpretation and the subsequent subjugation of women are extensive. However, this literalist approach allowed me to incorporate historical fiction methodologies in the formation of my novel. “The facts that engender” from this practice, as Sherwood articulates, provided me the tools to reverse-engineer the patriarchal creation story found in myth and in Genesis to fashion something egalitarian and for everyone.

Conference details

SGSSS 'Doing Feminist Research' (2022)

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