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Glenn Fosbraey

Glenn Fosbraey

Dr.

20182022

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Biography

Glenn Fosbraey is the Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences. He has published various books, chapters, and articles on the subjects of song lyrics, drama, and pedagogical processes in HE. 
 
Glenn has been a member of the Creative Writing team since January 2009, during which time he has received several Learning and Teaching Awards,  a Green Gown Award for Student Engagement. He has been a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy since 2016.
 
As well as his academic work, Glenn has published poetry and short stories, and before coming to The University of Winchester, worked in Public Relations.

Research interests

  • Popular music
  • Creative Non-Fiction
  • Horror Fiction
  • Playwriting
  • Creative Pedagogies in Higher Education

Areasofexpertise

  • Song Lyrics (critical and creative approaches)
  • Site-specific theatre
  • Horror Fiction
  • Podcasting/ Radio

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Publications

Books

Cancel Culture, Censorship, and Controversy in Pop Music: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Morrissey? Anthem Press. Due Autumn 2026.

Reading song lyrics: an interdisciplinary and multimodal approach. Anthem Press. August 2025

Creative Approaches to Higher Education Pedagogy in the Arts and Humanities (editor). Bloomsbury. 2024

Exploring the impact of performance on the music and lyrics of The Beatles: The Beatles Live! Cambridge Scholars Press. 2024 (with Daniel Ash)

Reading Eminem. Palgrave Macmillan (2022)

Viva Hate: exploring hatred in popular music. Cambridge Scholars Press (2022)

Lost Horizons: Song lyrics and the coast (editor). Routledge (2022)

Creative Approaches to Higher Education Pedagogy in the Arts and Humanities (editor). Bloomsbury (Due Octobner 2024)

Exploring the impact of performance on the music and lyrics of The Beatles: The Beatles Live! Cambridge Scholars Press (with Daniel Ash). Due October 2024 

Misogyny, toxic masculinity, and heteronormativity in post-2000 popular music (co-editor) Palgrave Macmillan (2021)

Composing Song Lyrics: Creative and Critical Approaches. Palgrave Macmillan. With Professor Andrew Melrose (2019)

Chapters

‘From Endless Summer to Endless Bummer: The Californian ‘beach song’ from 1962–2020’. In Lost Horizons: Song lyrics and the coast. (2022)

'Manipulation and truth in The Final Cut.' Pink Floyd. A Multi-disciplinary Understanding of a Global Music Brand. Routledge (2022)

'Featuring... Nicki Minaj'. In Fosbraey and Puckey (eds) Misogyny, toxic masculinity, and heteronormativity in post-2000 popular music. Palgrave Macmillan (2021)
 
'I’m (not) your man’ 'Songs of Leonard Cohen'. In: Billingham, P. ed. Spirituality and Desire in Leonard Cohen’s Song and Poems. Cambridge Scholars Press (2017)
 
The Conversation articles
 
 
Other articles and media

‘Does Positive Affect Journaling have a role to play in higher education?’ (with Dr. Lesley Black). Higher Education Policy Institute, April 2026 

‘Culture wars: contemplations of ‘class’ from an academic caught in between’. HEPI blog, May 2024

‘Five ways to beat the procrastination monster’. Times Higher Education, December 2023

‘If I redesigned UK higher education, I would…’. Times Higher Education, January 2023

‘Full circle: using the cycle of teaching, module design and research’. Times Higher Education, January 2023

‘Two of us: Co-teaching in the HE classroom’ (with Daniel Ash) Juice Journal (2022)

 ‘Same old thing: The Streets and the importance of the everyday’. What, like it’s hard? Podcast (2021)

‘Exploring Song Lyrics’. The English Review magazine. 31.2 (2020)

‘Morrissey and The Carnivalesque’. AXON (2019)

‘Why Study Creative Writing in HE?’ The English Review magazine (2019)
 
'Living Inside and Outside songs.' AXON (2018)
 
'Passion and Knowledge: Reflections on teaching in Higher Education'. Writing in Education Journal, 74 (2018)
 
'Disrupting Status Quo: Pedagogical Approaches to Song Lyrics.' Creative Academic, 2 (2015)
 
'Approaches to low budget theatre making.' National Drama Journal (2014)
 
 
Music

We're Too Awkward to Say Hello. BGH. iTunes; Google Play; Spotify. 2026.
 
This Changes Everything: 11 songs about Climate Change [online]. [CD]. iTunes; Google Play; Spotify: Splendid Fred Records. 2016
 
 
Theatre

Climbing to the Moon (Co-writer/ Co-director). Railway Inn.
Climate 4 Change 2 (Producer/ Director). Winchester Theatre Royal
Winched from the Crypt (Producer/ Director). Winchester Theatre Royal
Climate 4 Change (Producer/ Director). Winchester Theatre Royal
Bloody Poetry (Producer). University of Winchester.
The Lover (Director). Winchester Theatre Royal 
Raspberry (Director). Winchester Theatre Royal
God Helmet (Producer/ Director). Brighton Fringe Festival.
Leather Handshake (Producer/ Director). Tudor House, Southampton
The Children (Producer). Winchester Theatre Royal
 
Curated exhibitions
 
Dressing my Homunculous (Artist) Multi-Media Art Exhibition, West Downs Gallery, 2026

This Changes Eveything (Curator) Multi-Media Art Exhibition about Climate Change. Stripe Studios/ Hansard Gallery, 2018

Fundingandmemberships

Funding awards

Higher Education Funding Council For England funding for social entrepreneurship for Splendid Fred Theatre Company

Member of National Assoiciation of Writers in Education