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Professor Will May

Professor Will May

Professor in Modern & Contemporary Lit

Research interests

  • modern and contemporary literature
  • mentoring and creative practice 
  • literary communities in modern culture 

More research

Connect with Will

Email: w.may@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF (View in Google Maps)

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Research

Research interests

  • modern and contemporary literature
  • mentoring and creative practice 
  • literary communities in modern culture 
  • poetry networks 
  • creative culture and social policy 

Research projects

Active projects

Diverse Capacities: Building A Knowledge Exchange Network For Creative Industries In The Solent
Sponsor: Arts & Humanities Research Council

Completed projects

Invisible Mentors: British Poetry in Partnership, 1960-2020
Researchers:
Professor Will May
Sponsor: Arts & Humanities Research Council
Scoping the South: Literature Provision and the Creative Industries
Researchers:
Professor Will May
Towns and the Cultural Economies of Recovery
Sponsor: Arts & Humanities Research Council
Millard. Leverhulme. Story Places: Exploring the Poetics of Location-Based Narratives
Sponsor: Leverhulme Trust
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