Academic Staff in English

DR ANN ALSTON – BA, MA, PhD (Cardiff). Senior Lecturer
Nineteenth and twentieth-century children's literature, nineteenth-century family and domesticity, Charlotte Yonge, Welsh children's literature.

DR GILL BALLINGER - BA, MA, PhD (Keele). Senior Lecturer
Charles Dickens, Nineteenth-century law and justice, Victorian literature and culture, and the uses of Gothic in nineteenth-century fiction.

DR MARIADELE BOCCARDI - BA (Bergamo), MSc (Edinburgh), PhD (Cantab.). Senior Lecturer
The nineteenth- and twentieth-century novel; romance and realism; Scottish Fiction.

DR ZOE BRENNAN - BA, MA (Exeter)  PhD (UWE). Lecturer
Gender and sexuality, nineteenth and twentieth-century British and American novel

DR CHARLES BUTLER - BA (London), MSc, DPhil (York). Senior Lecturer.
Children's literature, Renaissance literature, Transgender Studies.

DR MICHAEL DAVIS - MA (Cantab), MA (Warwick), PhD (Liverpool).  Senior Lecturer
Victorian literature, science and culture, especially the connections between literature and theories of mind.

DR DAVID GREENHAM - BA Hons. (Nottingham Trent University), MA, Ph.D. (Nottingham). Lecturer
Nineteenth century American literature and intellectual history

PROFESSOR WILLIAM GREENSLADE - BA (York), PhD (Warwick). Director of HLSS Graduate School
Nineteenth and early twentieth-century fiction, Englishness, cultural criticism.

DR KATE HEXT   - BA (Warwick); MA, PhD (Exeter)

PROFESSOR ROBIN JARVIS - BA, PhD (Southampton).
Romantic literature, poetry and poetics, literary and critical theory, travel writing.

DR NICOLA KING - BA (Cantab), MA (Sussex), PhD (Southampton). Visiting Research Fellow
Contemporary and C20th fiction; contemporary autobiography and memoir; children's literature; literature and the Holocaust; literature and psychoanalysis; writing and gender.

DR BRITTA MARTENS - MA (Hamburg), PhD (London). Senior Lecturer. MA Programme Leader
Poetry, nineteenth-century literature, and comparative studies.

DR MARIE MULVEY-ROBERTS - BA, MA, PhD (Manchester). Reader
Gothic literature, women's writing, romanticism, eighteenth-century literature, literature and medicine.

DR MELANIE ORD - BA (Cantab), MA (Reading), PhD (Leeds). Senior Lecturer
Renaissance literature, travel writing, Italy and Italianateness, humanism, courtliness.

PROFESSOR PETER RAWLINGS - BA (Hull), BA MA (Open), PhD (Cantab). Head of English.
Nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature; the American reception of Shakespeare; nineteenth-century literary theory and criticism; literature, philosophy, and intellectual history; gender trouble (masculinities).

DR SARAH ROBERTSON - BA (Derby), MA (Keele), PhD (Keele). Senior Lecturer
Contemporary American literature, in particular the literature of the American south.

DR KERRY SINANAN - BA, Ph.D. (Trinity College, Dublin), PCTHE (Oxford Brookes). Lecturer. HLSS Undergraduate Scheme Director
Eighteenth-century literature, specifically sincerity and authenticity, selfhood and identity, slave writing, travel writing, writing by slave masters and abolitionist poetry.

DR MOLLY THOMPSON - BA (Hons) (Bath Spa University), MA, (UWE), PhD (Exeter)
Black British women's writing (especially poetry), dub poetry, Caribbean writing, representations of the body.

DR LEWIS WARD - BA (Portsmouth), MA (UCL), PhD (Exeter). Hourly-paid lecturer.
Contemporary fiction.