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Madeleine Dunnigan

Madeleine

PhD Student in English

Email: m.dunnigan@qmul.ac.uk
Website: IG: @madeleine.dunnigan

Profile

Project Title: Going Nowhere: Empty Clues, Antidetective Writing and Third-Generation Holocaust Trauma.

Previous qualifications:

NYU MFA in Fiction Writing: A

Jill Davis Fellow, 2022-2024

Goldsmiths MA in Creative and Life Writing: Distinction

Isaac Arthur Green Fellow, 2019-2021.

Pat Kavanagh Award Shortlist, 2021

Genesis Jewish Book Week Fellow, 2021

Supervisors: Professor Mark Currie and Dr Daniel Lee

Teaching

Adjunct Lecturer in Creative Writing, NYU, 2023

Research

Research Interests:

Creative writing,

Narratology,

Holocaust Studies,

Detective and Antidetective Fiction,

Trauma theory.

Examples of research funding:

LAHP-funded PhD Student.

Publications

Jean, a novel, published by Daunt (UK), W.W. Norton (US), Platatore Editions (Spanish), Diogenes (German), Gramma (Italian).

‘On Becoming German’, published by 3:AM Magazine 2020, republished by European Judaism 2026.

‘Celia, Celia’, published by AFM Magazine, 2024.

‘Our Name Means Unique,’ Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Award Longlist, 2021. 

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