People in the School of Music, English and Theatre

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

Gail Babb

Gail Babb is an award-winning theatre maker who specialises in new work, participatory arts and experiments with form.

Dr Guy Baron

Guy conducts practice-based research in music production and works as a singer-producer under the name Semi Precious.

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.

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.

Sudip Chakroborthy

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.

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.

Jennifer Isidore

Jennifer's interests: practice research, PhD studies: music as resistance in the British Black diaspora

Olaf Jubin

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

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 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.

Ed McKeon

Ed McKeon leads the Masters module on Music Management.

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.

Dr Tim Parnell

Tim's research focuses on eighteenth-century fiction. He is Literary Director of the Goldsmiths Prize.

Professor Tom Perchard

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.

Dr Guy Stevenson

Guy specialises in literary modernism, the 1960s counterculture, and their political and cultural legacies today.

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.