People in the School of Music, English and Theatre
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Staff list
Sola Adeyemi
Sola teaches on African theatre history, postcolonial theatre, culture and performance, and convenes MA World Theatres.
Simonetta Alessandri
Simonetta Alessandri is a dancer, teacher and choreographer, who uses improvisation as a teaching and research method.
Dr Tamsin Alexander
Tamsin is a musicologist, specialising in European musical culture in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Adam Alston
Annie Guo
Annie originally trained as a classical Chinese dancer before moving on to train in contemporary ballet.
Gail Babb
Gail Babb is an award-winning theatre maker who specialises in new work, participatory arts and experiments with form.
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Dr Guy Baron
Guy works across electronic music and songwriting, convening practice-based modules in music production.
Marcus Bell
Marcus is a queer dance scholar investigating tragedy, choreography and decolonial queer performance practices.
Dr Alexis Bennett
Alexis researches audiovisual media, and has parallel interests in folk and early music.
Dr Caroline Blinder
Dr. Caroline Blinder’s research focuses on the intersections between Modernism, literature, and Visual Culture.
Imogen Burman
Imogen organises all the performance based activities in the department, including rehearsals, concerts, degree shows and visiting guest artists, performers and lecturers.
Philippa Burt
Philippa’s interests are the sociology of the theatre, ensemble companies, and twentieth-century British theatre.
Clare Finburgh Delijani
I specialise in French, Francophone and UK theatre, examining how they engage with social, global and climate justice.
Sara Clifford
Writer of over thirty plays, Sara writes site-specific plays located in local communities and teaches dramaturgy.
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 Simon Deacon
Simon has overseen the development of a performance culture within the Music department and is a founder of NX Records.
Debora Minà
Professor Jane Desmarais
Literary and visual decadence and Anglo-French cultural relations in the late 19th century.
Steven Dykes
A lecturer, actor, director and playwright, Steven has worked extensively in the UK and USA bringing scripts to life.
Cass Fleming
Cass’s specialisms are actor training, directing, and the work of Michael Chekhov and Suzanne Bing
Dr Livia Franchini
Livia is a writer and translator of poetry and fiction. Her research focuses on feminist writing and experimental form.
Dr Moss Freed
Moss is a composer, performer and bandleader with interests in improvisation and social aspects of ensemble performance
Anna Furse
Research includes issues of the body: hysterias and trauma, touch practices, death and dying, performance and medicine
Luis Garcia
Luis is a specialist in vocal pedagogy and is the Supervising Tutor in Singing Voice Technique.
Dr Iris Garrelfs
Iris works on the cusp of music, art and sociology across improvised performance, installation and media projects.
Mr Mikko Gordon
Mikko is a music producer and mixing engineer, who has worked with artists such as Thom Yorke, Pete Townshend and Gaz Coombes. He is responsible for the Goldsmiths Music Studios.
Robert Gordon
Gordon’s research has used his own experiences to focus on the relationship between practice and critical reflection.
Dr Jessica Gossling
Jessica is an internationally recognised scholar of literary and visual decadence
Fiona Graham
Dr Fiona Graham is an artist/scholar with research interests in dramaturgy and performance development.
Katja Hilevaara
Katja Hilevaara is an artist, researcher and teacher who works in performance, installation and art-writing.
Dr Isobel Hurst
Isobel's research explores the reception of Greece and Rome in the 19th century and in contemporary women's writing
Jennifer Isidore
Jennifer's interests: practice research, PhD studies: music as resistance in the British Black diaspora
Dr Pamela Karantonis
Pamela has always been intrigued by disruptive genres of art and considers the theatre to be at its best when it fills this remit.
Natalie Katsou
Natalie Katsou investigates how theatre can support legal practice in forced migration and asylum.
Dr Caroline Kennedy
Dr Caroline Kennedy is a trans-disciplinary artist, musician-composer and practice researcher
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.
Dr Maria Krivenski
Maria focusses on the culture of ‘classical’ musical performance – how it is created, transmitted and transformed.
Dr Tom Lee
Ben Levitas
Ben’s research connects modern Irish literature and theatre with its cultural and political history, specialising in W. B. Yeats.
Dr Carole Maddern
Carole’s research interests include Old and Middle English and the origins and development of the English language.
Dr Naomi Matsumoto
Naomi has scholarly interests in Italian opera, Purcell and Monteverdi and Baroque period performance practice.
Dr Rachel McCarthy
Rachel is a musicologist, focusing on 21st century music and politics.
Molly McPhee
Molly's research explores how theatre intervenes on carceral society through sensory atmospheres of resistance
Graeme Miller
Graeme Miller is an artist whose work has taken various forms, from performance, installation, video and sound.
Tiziana Morosetti
Tiziana specialises in African Theatre and representations of race, Blackness and the ‘Other’ in British theatre.
Dr Uttara Natarajan
Romantic and Victorian literature, with a focus on non-fiction prose, especially the essay genre.
Rachael Newberry
Rachael's research interests are in the intersections between Post-War British Drama, Feminism and Eco- Criticism.
Joe Newman
As a guitarist and performer, Joe has toured and recorded with Mercury Prize-nominated artists Jessie Ware, Ghostpoet and Eska, as well as Tom Jones, Miguel and Bilal.
Dr Julia Ng
Julia specialises in the history of critical theory and the links between philosophy, literature and modern mathematics.
Professor Barley Norton
Barley is an ethnomusicologist and filmmaker with research interests in the music and culture of Southeast Asia.
Osita Okagbue
Osita’s research interests are in African theatre and performance, Caribbean theatre and postcolonial theatre.
Jocelyn Page
Jocelyn's research interests include poetry, the short story, collaboration, academic writing and pedagogy.
Nick Parkin
An award-winning composer, Nick specialises in environmental and site based sound and performance.
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Dr Tim Parnell
Tim’s research focuses on eighteenth-century fiction. He is Literary Director of the Goldsmiths Prize.
Professor Tom Perchard
Tom’s teaching and research centres on the cultural history and historiography of jazz and popular music.
Dr Pia Pichler
Pia's research explores discourse and intersectional gender identity in talk; language & social class, ethnicity, race
Brenda Rattray
Brenda is an Educator, Composer, Performer and Artist. Her specialism is a passion for teaching expressive voice to people in all areas of the community from high profile psychiatric prisons to special schools, Montessori nurseries to the BBC Concert and Symphony Orchestras.
Dr Lauren Redhead
Lauren’s research spans composition, performance and contemporary musicology., with a focuses on the music and aesthetics of the 21st Century and the methodological critique of practice research.
Alexa Reid
Alexa is a cross-disciplinary artist who makes work in the margins between theatre, live art and installation.
Phyllis Richardson
Phyllis has written on architecture, urban design and and houses in literature.
Bradley Rogers
Bradley Rogers focuses on creative and critical approaches to musical theatre, gender, sexuality, & performance theory.
Professor Holly Rogers
Holly is interested in music's convergence with the visual arts.
Marie-Gabrielle Rotie
Marie-Gabrielle is a practitioner-researcher, artist, movement coach and choreographer working from embodied knowledge.
Amy Sackville
Amy Sackville writes novels, short fiction and other short prose.
Dr Shelley Angelie Saggar
Shelley's research focuses on the intersection between Indigenous literary studies and critical museum practice
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
Professor Francis Spufford
Francis Spufford is a novelist and writer of non-fiction, with a habit of changing subject matter from book to book.
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Dr Guy Stevenson
Guy specialises in literary modernism, the 1960s counterculture, and their political and cultural legacies today.
Professor Carole-Anne Sweeney
Professor Derval Tubridy
Andrea Tuijten
Andrea's work and passion hold a focus on facilitating interfaith encounters through theatre, critical pedagogy and youth activism, multi-arts and creative educational approaches.
Mischa Twitchin
Mischa's interests include European theatres of the avant-garde; Afro-European cultural politics; historical-theoretical questions of empathy and mimesis; Performance Philosophy; Memory Studies.
Dr Jack Underwood
Jack is a poet, writer and critic, interested in the lyric, poetics, and new terminologies of writing practice.