English & Comparative Literary Studies News
Alumna Katy Whitehead has won the 2017 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize
She was awarded the prize for Adventures in Synthetic Fun, an essay exploring the concept of ‘synthetic fun’ coined in the 1960s by Jeremy Sandford, and the changing nature of fun in an era of increasing automation, disputed oppression, widespread affective labour, illusory meritocracy, costly social mobility, divisive politics, and a degraded imagination.
Katy studied on the BA English Literature and Creative Writing and the MA in Writing in the department.