Manujya Ghosh
Doctoral Student in Creative Writing - Manujya’s thesis is entitled 'The End Of The World Among Other Mundane Things'.
Research Project Title:
The End Of The World Among Other Mundane Things: Increasing desensitisation towards climate change and apocalyptic warnings and the role of post-apocalyptic and dystopian fiction in that.
Supervisors:
Prof Sinead Morrissey, Prof Alex Pheby and Dr Stacy Gillis
Contact Details:
Email: m.ghosh2@newcastle.ac.uk
Research Interests:
- Climate fiction
- Dystopian fiction and the elements of social justice
- Post-apocalyptic fiction and its correlation with wish fulfilment genre
- Game elements in literature and gamification of life and characters in fiction writing
Brief Outline of Research Project:
The creative part, a novel, will try to make sense of a world where the apocalyptic warnings have been taken to an extreme and are happening in real time as well. However, it will focus on the human condition with more emphasis placed on a micro perspective rather than a macro perspective on the race as a whole. The critical part will examine whether the overload of climate fiction, post-apocalyptic, and dystopian fiction has served to numb us instead of rousing a fighting spirit.