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.
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.
Dr Ros Barber
r.barber (@gold.ac.uk)
As a writer and researcher, Ros works in the fields of Early Modern literary biography and Shakespeare studies.
Dr Sarah Barnsley
s.barnsley (@gold.ac.uk)
Sarah’s research includes American literature, Mary Barnard, modernism, poetry and poetics, and creative writing.
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)
Caroline’s work includes 19th and 20th Century American literature, in particular writing from the 1930s.
Professor Lucia Boldrini
l.boldrini (@gold.ac.uk)
Lucia’s principal areas of research are James Joyce, Dante and Modernist Medievalism as well as autobiography.
Professor Marie-Claude Canova-Green
m.canova-green (@gold.ac.uk)
Marie-Claude’s research interests include seventeenth- and eighteenth-century 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.
Dr Alessia Cogo
a.cogo (@gold.ac.uk)
Alessia investigates the diversity of English, especially transcultural and transnational phenomena.
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)
Her research is focussed on nineteenth-century literature and visual culture, specifically literary and Decadence.
Professor Maura Dooley
m.dooley (@gold.ac.uk)
Maura specialises in creative writing, specifically in the form of contemporary poetry and short fiction.
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 Miranda El-Rayess
m.el-rayess (@gold.ac.uk)
Miranda explores representations of consumer culture and the city through nineteenth and twentieth century literature.
Dr Jessica Gossling
j.gossling (@gold.ac.uk)
Dr Isobel Hurst
i.hurst (@gold.ac.uk)
Isobel’s research is in nineteenth and twentieth century poetry and fiction, and women's writing.
Dr Nicole King
n.king (@gold.ac.uk)
Nicole King’s research explores representations of race, class, gender and black childhood in African American, Caribbean and Black British Literature.
Dr Padraig Kirwan
p.kirwan (@gold.ac.uk)
Padraig's primary interest is contemporary Native American writing and tribal literatures of the Americas.
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)
Frank has written on German literature of the Enlightenment, the writer Emine Sevgi Özdamar and literary Expressionism.
Dr Tom Lee
tom.lee (@gold.ac.uk)
Tom is a published author of fiction, short stories and memoirs and teaches creative writing to undergraduates.
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.
Dr Sarah Maitland
english (@gold.ac.uk)
Professor David Margolies
english (@gold.ac.uk)
Adam Mars-Jones
adam.mars-jones (@gold.ac.uk)
Adam’s books include the novels Pilcrow and Cedilla, he also writes regularly for the London Review of Books.
Dr Jacob McGuinn
j.mcguinn (@gold.ac.uk)
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)
Uttara is interested in Romantic and Victorian literature, especially non-fictional prose and the history of ideas.
Dr Mairi Neeves
m.neeves (@gold.ac.uk)
Mairi has interests in fields of postcolonialism, trauma studies, life-writing, and Middle Eastern Literature.
Dr Julia Ng
j.ng (@gold.ac.uk)
Julia specialises in the links between modern mathematics, political thought, and theories of history and language.
Deirdre Osborne
d.osborne (@gold.ac.uk)
Deirdre's research ranges from late-Victorian to contemporary periods focusing upon feminism, race and poetics.
Dr Tim Parnell
t.parnell (@gold.ac.uk)
Tim’s research focusses on Laurence Sterne and the diverse relationships between his writing and coeval print culture.
Dr Pia Pichler
p.pichler (@gold.ac.uk)
Pia has dedicated herself to promoting linguistics and, in particular, the study of language, society and culture.
Dr Geri Popova
g.popova (@gold.ac.uk)
Geri’s research to date has been in theoretical linguistics, focussing on morphology and lexical semantics.
Ross Raisin
R.Raisin (@gold.ac.uk)
Ross is the award-winning author of three novels, including God’s Own Country, and teaches creative and life writing.
Dr Jacqueline Rattray
j.rattray (@gold.ac.uk)
A specialist in Spanish surrealism, Jacqueline’s research centres on the experimental writings of avant-garde artists.
Phyllis Richardson
p.richardson (@gold.ac.uk)
As an author and journalist, Phyllis has written on architecture, urbanism and literature.
Professor Charlotte Scott
c.scott (@gold.ac.uk)
Charlotte’s primary research interests focus on the relationship between drama and social history.
Dr Abigail Shinn
A.Shinn (@gold.ac.uk)
Abigail specialises in early modern English literature, especially in how different genres and cultural forms interact.
Dr Michael Simpson
m.simpson (@gold.ac.uk)
Michael’s research interests span Romanticism, classical reception and postcolonialism.
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’ research covers children's literature, science fiction and fantasy, and economics as a form of storytelling.
Dr Tamar Steinitz
t.steinitz (@gold.ac.uk)
My research interests are in twentieth-century and contemporary literature, with a focus on world literature and transnational fiction.
Dr Nell Stevens
english (@gold.ac.uk)
Nell Stevens is a writer of memoir and fiction and teaches creative writing.
Dr Carole Sweeney
c.sweeney (@gold.ac.uk)
Carole’s research interests include modernist literature, surrealism and modernist primitivism.
Professor Derval Tubridy
d.tubridy (@gold.ac.uk)
Derval’s research explores the intersection between language, materiality and process in contemporary literature.
Professor Joan Turner
english (@gold.ac.uk)
Dr Jack Underwood
j.underwood (@gold.ac.uk)
Jack is a poet and librettist, focussing on creative writing studies, post-structuralism and psychoanalytic theory.
Ardashir Vakil
a.vakil (@gold.ac.uk)
Ardashir is a novelist, poet and short story writer who has published two award-winning novels, Beach Boy and One Day.
Dr Erica Wagner
E.Wagner (@gold.ac.uk)
Erica is interested in American fiction and non-fiction, the integration of scientific and medical writing with fiction.
Dr Frances Wilson
F.Wilson (@gold.ac.uk)
Frances is a biographer and critic, currently writing a life of D H Lawrence.
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.