Theresa Moerman Ib

Autobiography/autofiction, conceptual/constraint-based writing, divided self, experimental/hybrid forms, memory, transnational identity.

Maria Theresa Moerman Ib is a visual artist and writer, who grew up between Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands and the UK. Influenced by a peripatetic life, her creative practice engages with autobiography, language and memory through image and text.

Now based in rural Scotland, she is an Associate Lecturer in creative writing at the Open University and is working towards a PhD at the University of St Andrews, supervised by Dr Oli Hazzard. Her research focuses on the divided self of a transnational individual, and how the experiences of a multiple identity may be translated authentically into hybrid, autofictional modes of writing.

• Autobiography
• Autoethnography
• Autofiction
• Conceptual Writing
• Constraint-Based Writing
• Creative Nonfiction
• Diaries & Journals
• Doubles, Doppelgängers & Divided Selves
• Experimental & Hybrid Forms
• Life Writing & Memoir
• Memory
• Multilingualism
• Plath Studies
• Poetry
• Translation
• Transnationalism
• Women's Writing

• 2013: Mobilizing Snapshots: In Defence of Camera Phone Photography (Glasgow School of Art)
• 2012: The Magic Mirror: Reflections on Photography as Memory (Glasgow School of Art)
• 2010: Fauxtography: Truth and and Fiction in Documentary Photography (University of New Mexico)
• 2010: Constructed Realities: Amateur Aesthetics in Contemporary Photography (University of New Mexico)
• 2009: Scratching the Surface: The Birth of Structural/Materialist Film (Glasgow School of Art)
• 2002: Mind Over Myth? The Divided Self in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath (University of Southern Denmark)