IZMIR POETRY FESTIVAL
16 - 18
April
Plenary Speakers
Prof. Dr. Peter Jaeger
Roehampton University,
Department of English and Creative Writing
He is a practicing poet, literary critic, and and text-based artist. In 2003 Roehampton hired him to help set up its new Creative Writing BA degree and to teach its first cohort of students. He was also responsible for designing their MA degree in 2005, and he currently supervises eight PhD students.
Doctor of Philosophy, English Literature, University of Western Ontario (1997)
Master of Arts, English Literature, University of Western Ontario (1993)
Honours Bachelor of Arts, English Literature and Art History, Carleton University (1992)
Prof. Dr. William Rowe
Birkbeck College, University of London,
Department of English and Humanities
Anniversary Professor of Poetics and Director of the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre
Anniversary Professor of Poetics in the Department of Iberian and Latin American Studies and the Department of English and Humanities
William Rowe is also a Fellow of the British Academy and holds an Honorary Doctorate at the Catholic University of Peru.
BA (Cambridge), PhD (London)