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Academic & Teaching staff

Catherine Batt , Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature

+44(0) 113 343 4758

French Arthurian cyclic romance, medieval literature, twentieth-century medievalism, Gawain-Poet, Thomas Hoccleve, and Caxton View full profile

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

Michael G. Brennan , Professor of Renaissance Studies

+44(0) 113 343 4745

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

Richard Brown , Reader in Modern Literature

+44(0) 113 343 4765

Modern Literature James Joyce’s Ulysses Contemporary Literature Millenial Fictions Co-ordinator of the Twentieth Century Literature M.A. scheme View full profile

Martin Butler , Professor of English Renaissance Drama

+44(0) 113 343 4766

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

Jeremy Davies, Lecturer in the Long Nineteenth Century

+44(0) 113 343 4778

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

Fiona Douglas , Lecturer in English Language

+44(0) 113 343 3597

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

David Fairer , Professor of Eighteenth Century Literature

+44(0) 113 343 4762

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

Alaric Hall, Lecturer in Medieval English Literature

+44(0) 113 343 4761

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

David Higgins, Lecturer in English Literature (1770-1832)

+44(0) 113 343 4799

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

Helen Iball, Lecturer in Theatre Studies

+44(0) 113 343 4779

Theatre audience participation, contemporary British theatre and live art, One to One theatre, theatre and ethics, diary drawing and graphic memoir. View full profile

Alison Johnson, Lecturer in Modern English Language

+44(0) 113 343 8099

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

Robert W Jones, Senior Lecturer in English Literature

+44(0) 113 343 4744

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

Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Professor of the Humanities

+44(0) 113 343 2693

Political conflict and cultural belonging in South Asia, particularly the Kashmir conflict. The memorial repercussions of the Partition of India. 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

Francis O'Gorman, Professor of Victorian Literature

+44(0) 113 343 4798

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

Lourdes Orozco, Lecturer in Theatre Studies

+44 113 343 4720

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

Jane Plastow, Professor of African Theatre

+44(0) 113 343 4722

I am primarily an Africanist with special interests in African theatre, African literature, education, development studies and politics. View full profile

Jay Prosser, Reader in Humanities

+44(0) 113 343 4776

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

Nicholas Ray, Lecturer in Critical/Cultural Theory

+44 113 343 4775

Critical theory; psychoanalysis; animal studies; Shakespeare; translation. 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

Simon Swift, Senior Lecturer in Critical and Cultural Theory

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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

Clive Upton, Professor of Modern English Language

+44(0) 113 343 4740

Modern English Language; diachronic and synchronic dialectology; sociolinguistics; history of English; phonetics and phonology; world English, pidgins and creoles. View full profile

Andrew Warnes, Reader in American Studies

+44(0) 113 343 4743

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