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James Moran

@jamesjmoran.bsky.social

Community Fellow, SOAS, University of London Academic Writing Consultant

James Moran @jamesjmoran.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Ethnographers who are interested in writing more engagingly and breaking out of academic prose clichés are very welcome on my course, which SOAS is running twice online in autumn 2026 www.soas.ac.uk/study/find-c...

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Ethnographic Storytelling

Ethnographic Storytelling short course at SOAS University of London.

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James Moran @jamesjmoran.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I had a great chat with Kate Marshall at @ucpress.bsky.social about the importance of choosing the influences on your prose. “Not all academics do the necessary reading that allows you to write beyond a purely academic audience.” academicstorytelling.substack.com/p/choosing-y...

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Choosing Your Influences

Kate Marshall from UC Press on how reading beyond academia improves academic writing

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James Moran @jamesjmoran.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

As her new book Land of Famished Beings comes out, I speak to Sophie Chao about why storytelling matters to ethnography. academicstorytelling.substack.com/p/does-story... @kwissoker.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social

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Does Storytelling Matter to Ethnography?

An interview with Sophie Chao about the role of stories in ethnographic writing

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James Moran @jamesjmoran.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

This September, I'll be running a short course on creative ethnographic writing at SOAS. We'll learn narrative techniques from HBO dramas, international cinema and Russian literature! Sign up & details: academicstorytelling.substack.com/p/new-short-... @soasanthro.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social

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