Staff research interests (English & Comparative Literature)
Caribbean literature; 18th-century historiography and early black writers; black feminisms.
Dr Joan Anim-Addo BEd MA PhD
Literature in England 1910-40; history of modern criticism; modern literature and the newspaper.
Professor Chris Baldick BA DPhil
Chaucer; gender in the Middle Ages and late antiquity; medieval literature and iconography.
Professor Alcuin Blamires BA MPhil
19th- and 20th-century American literature; literary theory; literature and photography.
Dr Caroline Blinder BA MA PhD
Modernist and postmodernist fiction; new literatures in English; Dante; theory and practice of comparative literature; literary theory.
Dr Lucia Boldrini PhD PhD
History of French theatre; 17th-century French court entertainments and history books.
Dr Marie-Claude Canova-Green BA MA PhD (Reader)
Modern American writing; critical theory; literature and philosophy; holocaust writing; psychoanalysis.
Dr Josh Cohen BA MA DPhil (Reader)
American literature since the 19th century; cultural memory and trauma; holocaust representation.
Dr Rick Crownshaw BA MA DPhil
Literature, the visual arts and Anglo-French cultural relations 1870-1920; literary Decadence and the Fin-de-Siècle.
Dr Jane Desmarais BA MA PhD
Creative and life writing; contemporary poetry; children’s literature.
Maura Dooley BA PGCE
English literature and politics 1590-1750; Swift and the Scriblerian
satirists; the early English novel; early English press to 1800.
Professor Alan Downie BA MLitt PhD
The modern French novel; Francophone Algerian literature.
Professor Peter Dunwoodie MA PhD
Reception of the classics in the 19th and 20th centuries; scholarly and popular responses to the epic tradition.
Dr Isobel Hurst BA MPhil DPhil
Contemporary native American literature; border studies and
postcolonial readings; trauma and literature; Irish and American senses
of nationality; literature of the American west since 1800.
Dr Padraig Kirwan BA MA PhD
Creative writing – particularly poetry and the novel, and the theatre.
Stephen Knight BA
German and Austrian literature since 1890; modernism and the avant-garde; literature and film; critical theory.
Dr Andreas Kramer MA DrPhil
18th-century German literature and the Enlightenment; German Expressionism; modern German literature and terrorism.
Dr Frank Krause DrPhil
Early modern drama; poetry and prose (especially Shakespeare, Jonson, Spenser, Sidney); poetry and poetics; renaissance rhetoric; the history of Shakespearean performance from 1600; literature and opera.
Professor Russ McDonald BA MA PhD
Literature and empire; postcolonial theory and novel; postcolonial life writing; the British novel post-1945.
Professor Bart Moore-Gilbert BA MA DPhil
Contemporary American and British fiction and poetry; memoir; journalism; translation; writing for the theatre; libretti.
Professor Blake Morrison BA MA PhD
Romantic and Victorian English literature, especially prose non-fiction; 19th-century aesthetics and history of ideas.
Dr Uttara Natarajan BSc BA MPhil DPhil
18th-century English literature; postmodernist fiction.
Dr Tim Parnell BA PhD
Discourse and conversation analysis; sociolinguistics; language and gender; feminist linguistics; language and identity (especially gender,
ethnicity, and social class).
Dr Pia Pichler MPhil PhD
Theoretical linguistics: grammatical structure, word structure, and the interface between word and sentence structure; language and the media.
Dr Geri Popova MA PhD
20th-century Spanish and Spanish American literature; European avant-garde writing, painting and cinema; comparative approaches to
Surrealism (particularly French-Spanish).
Dr Jacqueline Rattray BA MA PhD
Shakespeare; Renaissance drama and poetry; the history of the book; subjects and objects in performance.
Dr Charlotte Scott BA MA PhD
British Romantic literature, especially drama and lyric poetry; modern receptions of classical texts; postcolonial drama.
Dr Michael Simpson BA MA PhD
Creative writing, with interests in Russian in the 1950s and 1960s; the literary possibilities of economics; contemporary forms of religious
feeling.
Francis Spufford BA MA
French studies and translation studies; modernism; imperialism and primitivism.
Dr Carole Sweeney BA MA DPhil
Samuel Beckett; Thomas Kinsella; modern and contemporary Irish and British literature; textual and visual studies; literary theory.
Dr Derval Tubridy BA MPhil PhD
Creative writing, particularly the novel and the short story.
Ardashir Vakil BA PGCE