Staff in the Department of English and Creative Writing

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Dr Ros Barber

Senior Lecturer in Creative and Life Writing
r.barber (@gold.ac.uk)

As a writer and researcher, Ros works in the fields of Early Modern literary biography and Shakespeare studies.

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Dr Rick Crownshaw

Rick works extensively in the field of memory and trauma studies, American literature (particularly of the twentieth and twenty-first century), and the Environmental Humanities (culture and climate change, the Anthropocene and oil).

Dr Isobel Hurst

Lecturer in English
i.hurst (@gold.ac.uk)

Isobel’s research explores the reception of Greece and Rome in the 19th century and in contemporary women’s writing.

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Dr Padraig Kirwan

Senior Lecturer in the Literature of the Americas
p.kirwan (@gold.ac.uk)

Padraig’s primary interest is contemporary Indigenous literatures and literature from the North American continent

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Dr Julia Ng

Reader in Critical Theory and Co-Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought
j.ng (@gold.ac.uk)

Julia specialises in the links between modern mathematics, political thought, and theories of history and language.

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Dr Pia Pichler

Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
p.pichler (@gold.ac.uk)

Pia's research explores discourse and intersectional gender identity in talk; language & social class, ethnicity, race

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Richard Scott

Lecturer in Creative Writing
r.scott (@gold.ac.uk)

Richard Scott teaches on the MA in Creative and Life Writing. He is also the author of Soho (Faber & Faber, 2018).

Dr B J Sokol

Emeritus Professor of English
b.sokol (@gold.ac.uk)

B J is interested in the works of Shakespeare and other Renaissance writers, and twentieth-century American literature.

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Ardashir Vakil

Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing
a.vakil (@gold.ac.uk)

Novelist and short story writer including two award-winning books – Beach Boy (Penguin, 1998) One Day (Penguin, 2003).

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Dr Benjamin Woolley

Benjamin Woolley is a lecturer for the Foundation Year, Integrated Degree, English Literature. As a writer, his interests include early-modern biography and the uses of history in fiction.

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