Dr Steve Nash
Lecturer | Leeds Beckett
Leeds, UNITED KINGDOM
Steve Nash teaches across multiple disciplines such as cultural studies, including literature, creative writing, and media.
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Biography
Dr Steve Nash teaches across multiple disciplines across Cultural Studies, including Literature, Creative Writing, and Media, reflecting his broad interests and expertise. Steve's Ph.D studies focused on the now largely forgotten Victorian author Hesba Stretton, and his most recent published research applies a broad range of critical theory to literary and digital media narratives. Steve also works in the Business School and is the Module leader for the postgraduate Masters dissertation programmes in Marketing, Pr, and Journalism.
Creatively, Steve has authored two collections of poetry and a pamphlet. His poetry collection 'Myth Gatherers' won the 'Not the Forward Prize for Best Poetry', and he is also a Saboteur Award winner, being named Spoken Word Performer of the Year from a shortlist that included Kate Tempest and Hollie McNish. His most recent collection ‘Nearly Man’ was released in April 2024.
Steve is the co-editor and technical artist of literary arts publication Spelt Magazine, and runs West Yorkshire's longest running monthly poetry event, Puzzle Poets Live.
Steve's critical evaluation of the Metal Gear Solid, videogame franchise will be published by Bloomsbury, and he is currently collaborating with academics from Birmingham and Southampton University on a creative/critical project exploring plurality in poetry.
His first novel Remington Platypus will be published by Northodox Press in 2025.
Industry Expertise (4)
Education/Learning
Research
Writing and Editing
Media - Print
Areas of Expertise (8)
English, History & Media and Film
Media
Games
Culture
Film
Literature
Television
Writing
Affiliations (2)
- Spelt Magazine : Co-editor and Technical Artist
- Puzzle Poets Live
Links (3)
Languages (1)
- English
Event Appearances (2)
The Reason in My Rhizome Revisited (Keynote)
Eat, Sleep, Research, Repeat Conference York St John University
2023-11-01
Discourses of Congestion and Flux: Transformation in the Life and Works of Hesba Stretton
Victorian Transformations Conference Leeds Trinity University
2023-04-30
Articles (8)
“Plant Your Roots in Me”: Rhizomatic Narratology and Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
The Metal Gear Solid Series: Critical Essays and New Perspectives, Bloomsbury2024
The Contemporary Poetry Ecology: Production, Reception, and Plurality
The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry2024 With Joana Nissel and Katherine Parsons.
Romancing the Puritan: Writing the Boundary of Childhood in Victorian Fantasy and the Moral Reward Tale
Threshold, Boundary and Crossover Conference2020
“That’ll learn ye” – The Threatened Child as Didactic Device in the Sunday School Reward Tale
Victorian Popular Fiction Association Study Day2019
No Borders for Our Boats: Vikings and the Westernisation of the Norse Saga
Essays on Sword and Sandal Films and Television Programs Since the 1990s2017
The True, the Real, and the Possible: Thinking and Writing through Hayden White
Creative Histories2017
The Chosen Player One: The Rejection of Destiny in Videogame Narratives
Messengers from the Stars Episode IV Conference2016
Rhizomatic Narratology: Towards a Philosophy of the Global Digital Village
Film-Philosophy Conference2011
