Role
Dr Linda Kemp is a Research Fellow in the School of Social Sciences.
Research areas
Dr Kemp's research explores relationships between language, perception, experience, and knowledge across the intersections of contemporary poetics, spirituality, and interdisciplinary inquiry. She is interested in the methodological, epistemological, and interpretive questions raised by human experience, and in how different forms of inquiry shape what can be understood and communicated.
Research interests include spirituality and religion, contemporary poetics, language and perception, knowledge production, and interdisciplinary approaches to questions of inquiry and understanding.
Dr Kemp also co‑leads the Spirituality, Religion, and the Transpersonal (SPIRIT) Research Group at NTU, supporting research into the methodological implications of non‑standard forms of inquiry.
Opportunities to undertake postgraduate research towards a PhD are available, and Dr Kemp welcomes proposals from prospective students interested in any of the above or related areas. Further information is available from the NTU Doctoral School.
External activity
Dr Kemp serves as a peer reviewer for journals specialising in poetry, poetics, and literary criticism, contributing evaluative and developmental feedback across a range of creative‑critical and scholarly work. In addition to this, she provides editorial consultation on manuscripts in poetry, poetics, and related areas, supporting authors in shaping work that engages with innovative, interdisciplinary, or practice‑informed approaches.
Publications
Poetry
- Lamentation (Broken Sleep Books, 2026)
- The Moral Theology of the Devil / Clothed with the Sun (Leafe Press, 2025)
- Annunciation Sonnets (Broken Sleep Books, 2024)
- Stitch (Contraband, 2020)
- Lease Prise Redux (Materials, 2016)