Writing Spaces

Esthir Lemi, PhD, teaches at the Athens School of Fine Arts. Her research focuses on documentation of the artistic process and reality, as well as on the complementarity of art forms. Ekaterina Midgette, PhD, is Associate Professor of Literacy Education at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York. Her research interests include argumentative writing instruction and literacy for English Language Learners.Jessica Seymour, PhD, is an Australian researcher and lecturer at HU University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht. Her recent publications range in topic from fan studies, to Doctor Who, to ecocriticism in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.

• Notes on ContributorsList of ImagesIntroductionEsthir Lemi, Ekaterina Midgette and Jessie SeymourPart 1: Meeting the Student and the Self1Writing Ghosty Spaces: Place as PalimpsestSam Meekings2Finding My Writing Space: from Research to StorytellingGenevieve Jorolan-Quintero3Attachment or Antithesis? Middle School Children and Writing as Relational ConsciousnessPhil Fitzsimmons and Edie Lanphar4Breathing In; Breathing Out: Writing as a Spiritual SpaceGail Hammill5Expression of Humour in Persuasive Writing: Developmental Trends and Pedagogical ImplicationEkaterina Midgette and Sevil NakisliPart 2: Meeting the Master6Gandhi, the Journalist: When, Where, How, and What He WroteDavid W. Bulla7Challenges of Physical and Psychological Spaces Faced by Three Generations of Writers in the 20th and 21st Century in the Sub-Continent, South Asia, and in Pakistan Syeda Hajirah Junaid8Writing as the Philosopher: Murdoch and the TheoryBarış Mete9Poetry as Place: the ‘Vrai Lieu’ in the Work of Yves BonnefoyLayla Roesler10Timeless and Spaceless Writer: the Case of Bediuzzaman Said NursiYadigar SanliPart 3: Meeting the Artist11In-Movement: Spatiotextual InscriptionsPanagiota Mavridou12At the Crossroads: Writing Spaces between Academia and EmbodimentShelley Smith13The Artist as a WriterEsthir Lemi14Exploring the Written Wor(l)d: Writing As a Spatial PracticeNathan James Crane15The Literary Spaces of Mervyn Peake’s The Gormenghast Trilogy Used as a Foundation for Architectural ExplorationImogen Lesser WoodsIndex