Dr Adam Lively

Adam Lively recently completed his PhD at Royal Holloway College, University of London. His thesis, “Mediation and Dynamics in the Experience of Narrative Fiction”, proposes a new theoretical framework for the analysis of literary fiction, drawing on phenomenology, semiotics and “second generation” cognitive science. Adam undertook his doctorate as a mature student, having worked for a number of years in television as a producer/director of documentaries. He has also published four novels, and continues to write short stories alongside his research. His story “Voyage” was included in Best British Short Stories 2013 (Salt). His non-fiction writing includes Masks: Blackness, Race and the Imagination (Oxford University Press, 1998). Adam is a member of the ‘Narrative and Complex Systems’ project in the Interdisciplinary Centre for Narrative Studies at the University of York, and teaches creative writing at Morley College, London.