Staff in the Department of English and Comparative Literature

Professor Joan Anim-Addo

Joan’s research activities have been into Caribbean Literature and diaspora, women’s writing and Black presence in Europe.

Professor Chris Baldick

Chris’ interests are in 20th century British and European writing, especially English poetry and fiction 1900-1950.

Dr Ros Barber

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

Dr Sarah Barnsley

Sarah’s research includes American literature, Mary Barnard, modernism, poetry and poetics, and creative writing.

Professor Alcuin Blamires

Alcuin’s interests are Chaucer, fourteenth-century English literature and medieval debate about women in vernacular.

Dr Caroline Blinder

Caroline’s work includes 19th and 20th Century American literature, in particular writing from the 1930s.

Professor Lucia Boldrini

Lucia’s principal areas of research are James Joyce, Dante and Modernist Medievalism as well as autobiography.

Professor Marie-Claude Canova-Green

Marie-Claude’s research interests include seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature and culture.

Professor Helen Carr

Helen focusses on American literature and poetry, women's writing and feminist and postcolonial theory.

Dr Alessia Cogo

Alessia investigates the diversity of English, especially transcultural and transnational phenomena.

Professor Josh Cohen

Josh’s key interests are in psychoanalysis, literature and philosophy, especially Blanchot, Adorno and Benjamin.

Dr Rick Crownshaw

Rick has worked extensively in the field of memory studies, focussing on the Anthropocene and American literature.

Professor Jane Desmarais

Her research is focussed on nineteenth-century literature and visual culture, specifically literary and Decadence.

Professor Maura Dooley

Maura specialises in creative writing, specifically in the form of contemporary poetry and short fiction.

Professor Alan Downie

Alan’s interests range from Early Modern literature and politics, and the history of the book, newspapers and pamphlets.

Professor Peter Dunwoodie

Peter’s research on French and English literature gives special reference to colonial and postcolonial writing.

Dr Miranda El-Rayess

Miranda explores representations of consumer culture and the city through nineteenth and twentieth century literature.

Dr Isobel Hurst

Isobel’s research is in nineteenth and twentieth century poetry and fiction, and women's writing.

Dr Nicole King

Nicole King’s research explores representations of race, class, gender and black childhood in African American, Caribbean and Black British Literature.

Dr Padraig Kirwan

Padraig's primary interest is contemporary Native American writing and tribal literatures of the Americas.

Stephen Knight

Stephen has research interests in creative writing and is a published writer of poetry and fiction.

Dr Andreas Kramer

Andreas explores twentieth century German literature and culture, and the European Avant-garde.

Professor Frank Krause

Frank has written on German literature of the Enlightenment, the writer Emine Sevgi Özdamar and literary Expressionism.

Dr Tom Lee

Tom is a published author of fiction, short stories and memoirs and teaches creative writing to undergraduates.

Dr Carole Maddern

Carole’s research interests include Old and Middle English and the origins and development of the English language.

Dr Sarah Maitland

Professor David Margolies

Adam Mars-Jones

Adam’s books include the novels Pilcrow and Cedilla, he also writes regularly for the London Review of Books.

Professor Blake Morrison

Blake is a poet, novelist and journalist, best known for two family memoirs and a study of the Bulger case, As If.

Dr Uttara Natarajan

Uttara is interested in Romantic and Victorian literature, especially non-fictional prose and the history of ideas.

Dr Mairi Neeves

Mairi has interests in fields of postcolonialism, trauma studies, life-writing, and Middle Eastern Literature.

Dr Julia Ng

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

Deirdre Osborne

Deirdre's research ranges from late-Victorian to contemporary periods focusing upon feminism, race and poetics.

Dr Tim Parnell

Tim’s research focusses on Laurence Sterne and the diverse relationships between his writing and coeval print culture.

Dr Pia Pichler

Pia has dedicated herself to promoting linguistics and, in particular, the study of language, society and culture.

Dr Geri Popova

Geri’s research to date has been in theoretical linguistics, focussing on morphology and lexical semantics.

Ross Raisin

Ross is the award-winning author of three novels, including God’s Own Country, and teaches creative and life writing.

Dr Jacqueline Rattray

A specialist in Spanish surrealism, Jacqueline’s research centres on the experimental writings of avant-garde artists.

Phyllis Richardson

As an author and journalist, Phyllis has written on architecture, urbanism and literature.

Deac Rossell

Deac’s interests include the relationship between newspapers and film, and independent American filmmaking.

Professor Charlotte Scott

Charlotte’s primary research interests focus on the relationship between drama and social history.

Dr Abigail Shinn

Abigail specialises in early modern English literature, especially in how different genres and cultural forms interact.

Dr Michael Simpson

Michael’s research interests span Romanticism, classical reception and postcolonialism.

Dr B J Sokol

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

Professor Francis Spufford

Francis’ research covers children's literature, science fiction and fantasy, and economics as a form of storytelling.

Dr Tamar Steinitz

My research interests are in twentieth-century and contemporary literature, with a focus on world literature and transnational fiction.

Dr Nell Stevens

Nell Stevens is a writer of memoir and fiction and teaches creative writing.

Dr Carole Sweeney

Carole’s research interests include modernist literature, surrealism and modernist primitivism.

Professor Derval Tubridy

Derval’s research explores the intersection between language, materiality and process in contemporary literature.

Professor Joan Turner

Dr Jack Underwood

Jack is a poet and librettist, focussing on creative writing studies, post-structuralism and psychoanalytic theory.

Ardashir Vakil

Ardashir is a novelist, poet and short story writer who has published two award-winning novels, Beach Boy and One Day.

Dr Erica Wagner

Erica is interested in American fiction and non-fiction, the integration of scientific and medical writing with fiction.

Dr Frances Wilson

Frances is a biographer and critic, currently writing a life of D H Lawrence.

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.