Staff in the Department of English and Creative Writing
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Staff list
Professor Joan Anim-Addo
j.anim-addo (@gold.ac.uk)
Joan’s research activities have been into Caribbean Literature and diaspora, women’s writing and Black presence in Europe.
Dr Arianna Autieri
A.Autieri (@gold.ac.uk)
Arianna's research interests include translation theory and practice, experimental translation, music and James Joyce.
Professor Chris Baldick
c.baldick (@gold.ac.uk)
Chris’ interests are in 20th century British and European writing, especially English poetry and fiction 1900-1950.
Professor Alcuin Blamires
english (@gold.ac.uk)
Alcuin’s interests are Chaucer, fourteenth-century English literature and medieval debate about women in vernacular.
Dr Caroline Blinder
c.blinder (@gold.ac.uk)
Dr. Caroline Blinder’s research focuses on the intersections between Modernism, literature, and Visual Culture.
Professor Lucia Boldrini
l.boldrini (@gold.ac.uk)
Lucia’s principal areas of research are comparative literature, fictional biography and autobiography, and James Joyce
Dr Victoria Bovalino
v.bovalino (@gold.ac.uk)
Victoria is a novelist and researcher, specialising in young adult and genre fiction.
Professor Marie-Claude Canova-Green
m.canova-green (@gold.ac.uk)
Marie-Claude’s research interests include C17th and C18th French literature and culture.
Professor Helen Carr
english (@gold.ac.uk)
Helen focusses on American literature and poetry, women's writing and feminist and postcolonial theory.
Professor Josh Cohen
j.cohen (@gold.ac.uk)
Josh’s key interests are in psychoanalysis, literature and philosophy, especially Blanchot, Adorno and Benjamin.
Dr Alice Condé
a.conde (@gold.ac.uk)
Alice’s research explores decadence from the nineteenth century to the present day.
Dr Rick Crownshaw
r.crownshaw (@gold.ac.uk)
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).
Professor Jane Desmarais
j.desmarais (@gold.ac.uk)
Literary and visual decadence and Anglo-French cultural relations in the late 19th century.
Professor Maura Dooley
m.dooley (@gold.ac.uk)
Maura is a Professor of Creative Writing and convenes the MA in Creative and Life Writing. Her research interests are f
Professor Alan Downie
a.downie (@gold.ac.uk)
Alan’s interests range from Early Modern literature and politics, and the history of the book, newspapers and pamphlets.
Professor Peter Dunwoodie
english (@gold.ac.uk)
Peter’s research on French and English literature gives special reference to colonial and postcolonial writing.
Dr Livia Franchini
l.franchini (@gold.ac.uk)
Livia is a writer and translator of poetry and fiction. Her research focuses on feminist writing and experimental form.
Dr Jessica Gossling
j.gossling (@gold.ac.uk)
Jessica’s research is primarily focused on French and English literary decadence, spatial theory, and occulture.
Dr Isobel Hurst
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.
Dr Padraig Kirwan
p.kirwan (@gold.ac.uk)
Padraig’s primary interest is contemporary Indigenous literatures and literature from the North American continent
Stephen Knight
s.knight (@gold.ac.uk)
Stephen has research interests in creative writing and is a published writer of poetry and fiction.
Professor Andreas Kramer
a.kramer (@gold.ac.uk)
Andreas explores twentieth century German literature and culture, and the European Avant-garde.
Professor Frank Krause
f.krause (@gold.ac.uk)
Research interests: Enlightenment, Expressionism, narratives of the First World War, and the history of smell motifs.
Dr Christopher Law
c.law (@gold.ac.uk)
Chris works across literary theory, poetics, aesthetics and critical historiography.
Dr Tom Lee
tom.lee (@gold.ac.uk)
Tom is a short story writer, novelist and memoirist.
Dr Carole Maddern
c.maddern (@gold.ac.uk)
Carole’s research interests include Old and Middle English and the origins and development of the English language.
Professor David Margolies
english (@gold.ac.uk)
Dr Jacob McGuinn
j.mcguinn (@gold.ac.uk)
Jacob's interests are in modern poetry, philosophical poetics, and theories of criticism and aesthetics..
Professor Blake Morrison
b.morrison (@gold.ac.uk)
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
u.natarajan (@gold.ac.uk)
Romantic and Victorian literature, with a focus on non-fiction prose, especially the essay genre.
Dr Julia Ng
j.ng (@gold.ac.uk)
Julia specialises in the links between modern mathematics, political thought, and theories of history and language.
Professor Deirdre Osborne
d.osborne (@gold.ac.uk)
Deirdre's research ranges from late-Victorian to contemporary periods focusing upon feminism, race and poetics.
Jocelyn Page
j.page (@gold.ac.uk)
Jocelyn's research interests include poetry, the short story, collaboration, academic writing and pedagogy.
Dr Tim Parnell
t.parnell (@gold.ac.uk)
Tim’s research focuses on eighteenth-century fiction. He is Literary Director of the Goldsmiths Prize.
Dr Pia Pichler
p.pichler (@gold.ac.uk)
Pia's research explores discourse and intersectional gender identity in talk; language & social class, ethnicity, race
Dr Geri Popova
g.popova (@gold.ac.uk)
Geri’s research to date has been in theoretical linguistics, focussing on morphology and lexical semantics.
Phyllis Richardson
p.richardson (@gold.ac.uk)
Phyllis has written on architecture, urban design and and houses in literature.
Amy Sackville
A.Sackville (@gold.ac.uk)
Amy Sackville writes novels, short fiction and other short prose.
Professor Charlotte Scott
c.scott (@gold.ac.uk)
Charlotte's research is focused on Shakespeare and the early modern period, with a particular interest in social process
Richard Scott
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 Abigail Shinn
A.Shinn (@gold.ac.uk)
Abigail specialises in popular culture, conversion, and life writing in the early modern period.
Dr B J Sokol
b.sokol (@gold.ac.uk)
B J is interested in the works of Shakespeare and other Renaissance writers, and twentieth-century American literature.
Professor Francis Spufford
f.spufford (@gold.ac.uk)
Francis Spufford is a novelist and writer of non-fiction, with a habit of changing subject matter from book to book.
Dr Guy Stevenson
g.stevenson (@gold.ac.uk)
Guy specialises in literary modernism, the 1960s counterculture, and their political and cultural legacies today.
Professor Carole-Anne Sweeney
c.sweeney (@gold.ac.uk)
My teaching and research focuses on gender, feminism, race and modernism and on contemporary women's writing
Professor Derval Tubridy
d.tubridy (@gold.ac.uk)
Modernism and Irish Studies; textual and visual studies; philosophy; neurodiversity and critical posthumanism.
Professor Joan Turner
english (@gold.ac.uk)
Dr Jack Underwood
j.underwood (@gold.ac.uk)
Jack is a poet, writer and critic, interested in the lyric, poetics, and new terminologies of writing practice.
Dr Benjamin Woolley
b.woolley (@gold.ac.uk)
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.