I am a writer and academic based in the Peak District, lecturing at Futureworks Media School in Manchester where I am head of the animation degree.

My research interests are rather varied. I have published a book on novels with terrorist protagonists (a popular genre in Britain in the 1970s), a book on British Experimental novelists entitled, fittingly, "The Experimentalists", and one on the writer Christine Brooke-Rose. I teach animation, art and aesthetics, publishing occasional papers on those subjects, and I am co-editor of the Manchester Review of Books.

I also write fiction, some of which is published by Northodox Press (all my books can be found here: http://www.josefadarlington.co.uk/books.html), and I'm currently acting programme manager for the New Mills Local History Society.

I have been giving talks for about thirteen years now, speaking at conferences, doing readings, and performing. I have given public lectures for the Ragged University and as part of the "Invisible Histories" lecture series.