Staff in the Department of English and Creative Writing

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

American literature, Mary Barnard, modernism, poetry and poetics, creative writing, applications of neuroscience

Professor Alcuin Blamires

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

Professor Lucia Boldrini

Lucia’s principal areas of research are comparative literature, fictional biography and autobiography, and James Joyce

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 Alice Condé

Alice’s research explores decadence from the nineteenth century to the present day.

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).

Professor Jane Desmarais

Literary and visual decadence and Anglo-French cultural relations in the late 19th century.

Professor Maura Dooley

Maura is a Professor of Creative Writing and convenes the MA in Creative and Life Writing. Her research interests are f

Professor Alan Downie

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

Dr Miranda El-Rayess

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

Dr Livia Franchini

Livia is a writer and translator of poetry and fiction. Her research focuses on feminist writing and experimental form.

Dr Jessica Gossling

Jessica’s research is primarily focused on French and English literary decadence, spatial theory, and occulture.

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 indigenous literatures and literature from the North American continent

Professor Frank Krause

Research interests: Enlightenment, Expressionism, narratives of the First World War, and the history of smell motifs.

Dr Tom Lee

Tom is a short story writer, novelist and memoirist.

Dr Sarah Maitland

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

Romantic and Victorian literature, with a focus on non-fiction prose, especially the essay genre.

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 focuses on eighteenth-century fiction. He is Literary Director of the Goldsmiths Prize.

Dr Pia Pichler

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

Phyllis Richardson

Phyllis has written on architecture, urban design and and houses in literature.

Professor Charlotte Scott

Charlotte's research is focused on Shakespeare and the early modern period, with a particular interest in social process

Richard Scott

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

Dr Abigail Shinn

Abigail specialises in popular culture, conversion, and life writing in the early modern period.

Professor Francis Spufford

Francis Spufford is a novelist and writer of non-fiction, with a habit of changing subject matter from book to book.

Dr Tamar Steinitz

Tamar’s interests are in contemporary world literature, focusing on migration, multilingualism, and translation.

Professor Derval Tubridy

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

Dr Jack Underwood

Jack is a poet, writer and critic, interested in the lyric, poetics, and new terminologies of writing practice.

Ardashir Vakil

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

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.