French Arthurian cyclic romance, medieval literature, twentieth-century medievalism, Gawain-Poet, Thomas Hoccleve, and Caxton View full profile
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Academic & Teaching staff
Fiona Becket , Senior Lecturer in English Literature (Modern and Contemporary)
+44(0) 113 343 4736
Modern Literature Reading Ireland: Contemporary Irish Writing Contemporary Literature D. H. Lawrence: Reactionary or Radical Ecocriticism and its Environments View full profile
Bridget Bennett , Professor of American Literature & Culture
+44(0) 113 343 4751
Current Undergraduate Teaching Danger and Domesticity in American Literature This module is closely related to my ongoing work on home Encountering the Past American Words, American Worlds. View full profile
Stephen Bottoms , Wole Soyinka Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies
+44(0) 113 343 4737
I am a theatre researcher and practitioner with wide-ranging interests, though my publishing focuses largely on twentieth-century American theatre and performance. View full profile
My research interests cover three main areas: Renaissance studies, especially the Sidneys of Penshurst (2) Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh and contemporary Catholic writers (3) Travel writings: 1500-1700 View full profile
Modern Literature James Joyce’s Ulysses Contemporary Literature Millenial Fictions Co-ordinator of the Twentieth Century Literature M.A. scheme View full profile
Renaissance Jacobean Drama Shakespeare Shakespeare on Film Arts of Renaissance Kingship, The View full profile
Hamilton Carroll, Lecturer in American Literature and Culture
+44(0) 113 343 4730
Twentieth and twenty-first century US literature and culture, film studies, critical theory, gender studies View full profile
Teaching Fellow in English Language View full profile
Romantic poetry and other Romantic-period writing, especially PB Shelley; medical humanities; literature and environment. View full profile
Richard De Ritter, Lecturer in the Long Eighteenth Century
+44(0) 113 3438224
Eighteenth-century constructions of gender; educational and conduct literature; the representation of the domestic. View full profile
Language, Literature & Computers Language, Text and Context English in Time English in Space The Power of Language, The Language of Power Language of the Media Language and Dialect Issues View full profile
Sam Durrant , Senior Lecturer in Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literature
+44(0) 113 343 4768
Postcolonial Literature (module coordinator) Poetry: Reading and Interpretation Memorialising Slavery Postcolonial Bodies Colonial and Postcolonial Studies MA View full profile
Civil War and Restoration Literature Shakespearean Comedy Eighteenth Century Literature Swift, Satire, and (Un)reason View full profile
Denis Flannery , Senior Lecturer in American Literature
+44(0) 113 343 4742
I have teaching and research interests across American, Irish and English Literatures, Theatre, Cinema and Theory with a particular emphasis on the interrelations between culture, wriitng and affect. View full profile
Dr Christiana Gregoriou BA, Lancaster; MA, PhDNottingham; PGCLTHE, Leeds View full profile
Alaric's research focuses on Britain and Scandinavia, 500-1600. He is best known for his work on early medieval non-Christian beliefs. View full profile
Paul Hammond , Professor of Seventeenth-Century English Literature
+44(0) 113 343 4746
Literature and intellectual history of the seventeenth century, with a special focus on poetry. View full profile
Tracy Hargreaves, Senior Lecturer in English Literature
+44(0) 113 343 4755
Modernist, mid-century and contemporary C20th and C21st literature. View full profile
British culture and literature during the Romantic period: nationalism and imperialism; genius and creativity; celebrity; constructions of the self; and print culture. View full profile
Graham Huggan , Professor of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures
+44(0) 113 343 4767
Comparative postcolonial literary/cultural studies, travel writing, ecocriticism, short fiction, and film. View full profile
Theatre audience participation, contemporary British theatre and live art, One to One theatre, theatre and ethics, diary drawing and graphic memoir. View full profile
Dr Alison Johnson's research is corpus-based forensic linguistics drawing on: discourse and conversational analysis of institutional interaction, narrative evaluation, and pragmatics. View full profile
Vivien Jones, Professor of Eighteenth-Century Gender & Culture
+44(0) 113 343 4748
Henry James. Issues of gender and writing in the eighteenth century. View full profile
My work examines the inter-relationship between literature, politics and gender in the long eighteenth-century. I have particular interests in cultures of masculinity in the period, and in the theatrical and political career of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. View full profile
Political conflict and cultural belonging in South Asia, particularly the Kashmir conflict. The memorial repercussions of the Partition of India. View full profile
Renaissance Literature, Shakespeare, Literature and Music. View full profile
Ruth Mackay, Researcher for the 'Imagining the Place of Home' project
I am currently employed as Project Researcher by the School of English, working with Professor Bridget Bennett and Dr. Hamilton Carroll on an AHRC-funded project entitled ‘Imagining the Place of Home’ View full profile
John McLeod, Professor of Postcolonial and Diaspora Literatures
+44(0) 113 343 4753
Postcolonial literatures, diasporic and transcultural writing, representations of adoption, theories of postcolonialism and transculturation, postwar and contemporary British fiction View full profile
Katherine Mullin, Senior Lecturer in English Literature (Modern)
+44(0) 113 343 4780
My research concentrates on exploring the connections between Modernism, sexuality and popular culture. View full profile
Stuart Murray, Professor of Contemporary Literatures and Film
+44(0) 113 343 4747
Medical Humanities, especially cultural representations of disability (particularly autism and associated conditions) and mental health; postcolonial heath; postcolonial encounter and settlement. View full profile
Brendon Nicholls, Lecturer in African Literatures and Cultures
+44(0) 113 343 4769
My principal research interests are in Postcolonial literatures in English, and I have specialised interests in the Anglophone literatures of Africa. View full profile
Victorian literature and culture; John Ruskin; Romantic poetry; conceptions of literary 'life'; Modernism; Venice; mental health and writing/reading; textual editing; poetry of all periods. View full profile
Contemporary Western European performance practice with special focus on the material conditions of performance and its relationship with politics, ethics and identity. View full profile
Teaching Fellow in English Language View full profile
I am primarily an Africanist with special interests in African theatre, African literature, education, development studies and politics. View full profile
Life Writing (memoir, autobiography, biography). Photography, particularly in relation to suffering. The body, gender and transgender narratives. Jewish diasporic routes/roots, particularly Baghdadi. View full profile
Laurence Publicover, Teaching Fellow in Renaissance Literature
+44(0) 113 343 4750
Renaissance Drama (esp. Shakespeare, Marlowe & Heywood); romance; intertextuality; representation of the Islamic world in English texts; literature & the sea; poetic geography View full profile
Critical theory; psychoanalysis; animal studies; Shakespeare; translation. View full profile
Victorian literature and culture View full profile
Jane Rickard, Lecturer in Seventeenth-Century English Literature
+44(0) 113 343 4770
Seventeenth-century English literature including the relationship between literature and politics, notions of authorship and authority, and the cultures of manuscript and print. View full profile
Richard Salmon, Senior Lecturer in English Literature (Victorian)
+44(0) 113 343 4757
Nineteenth-Century literature and culture; the Victorian novel View full profile
Romanticism; Wordsworth; Stoicism; Enlightenment Philosophy; Hannah Arendt; Holocaust Studies View full profile
Mark Taylor-Batty, Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies
+44 (0) 113 343 4725
Surrealism and the French Stage Harold Pinters Drama My key areas of interest include the career of Harold Pinter, the theatricality of Samuel Beckett and aspects of Twentieth-century French theatre. View full profile
Modern English Language; diachronic and synchronic dialectology; sociolinguistics; history of English; phonetics and phonology; world English, pidgins and creoles. View full profile
American literature and culture, and African American literature and culture especially; food studies; everyday and material studies. View full profile
John Whale, Head of School and Professor of Romantic Literature
+44(0) 113 343 4752
Romantic Literature, British responses to the French Revolution; literary aesthetics and politics in the Romantic period. Contemporary English poetry. View full profile
