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.

Dr Caroline Blinder

Dr. Caroline Blinder’s research focuses on the intersections between Modernism, literature, and Visual Culture.

Professor Lucia Boldrini

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

Professor Marie-Claude Canova-Green

Marie-Claude’s research interests include C17th and C18th French 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 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

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

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.

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 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 Isobel Hurst

Isobel’s research explores the reception of Greece and Rome in the 19th century and in contemporary 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 indigenous literatures and literature from the North American continent

Stephen Knight

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

Professor Andreas Kramer

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

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 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.

Dr Jacob McGuinn

Jacob's interests are in modern poetry, philosophical poetics, and theories of criticism and aesthetics..

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 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.

Dr Jacqueline Rattray

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

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 is a researcher in the field of early modern literature.

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 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.

Dr Carole Sweeney

My teaching and research focuses on gender, feminism, race and modernism and on contemporary women's writing

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

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

Dr Erica Wagner

Fiction, American fiction, historical fiction, narrative non-fiction, memoir.

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.