People
Meet the people that make up our English Literature and Creative Writing department.
Head of English, American Studies and Creative Writing
- Prof. Hal Gladfelder - Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Head of English Literature
- Dr Fred Schurink - Lecturer in Early Modern Literature
Staff
- Dr David Alderson - Senior Lecturer in English Literature
- Dr Naomi Baker - Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature
- Dr Anke Bernau - Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature and Culture
- Dr Howard Booth - Senior Lecturer in English Literature
- Dr Luke Brown - Lecturer in Creative Writing
- Prof. Daniela Caselli - Professor of 20th Century Literature and Culture
- Dr Maria Christou - Presidential Fellow in Modern and Contemporary Literature
- Mr Horatio Clare - Lecturer in Creative Writing
- Dr Douglas Clark - Lecturer in Early Modern Literature
- Ms Emma Clarke - Lecturer in Screenwriting
- Dr Clara Dawson - Lecturer in Victorian Literature
- Prof. Jerome De Groot - Professor of English Literature and Culture
- Prof. Laura Doan - Professor of Cultural History and Sexuality Studies
- Dr Noelle Dückmann Gallagher - Senior Lecturer in 18th Century Literature and Culture
- Dr Honor Gavin - Lecturer in Creative Writing
- Ms Vona Groarke - Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing
- Dr Ingrid Hanson - Lecturer in 18th and 19th Century Literature
- Dr Ben Harker - Senior Lecturer in 20th Century Literature
- Prof. Liam Harte - Professor of Irish Literature
- Ms Frances Leviston - Lecturer in Creative Writing
- Prof. David Matthews - Professor of Medieval and Medievalism Studies
- Prof. John McAuliffe - Professor of Modern Literature and Creative Writing and co-director of the Centre for New Writing
- Dr Ian McGuire - Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing
- Dr Kaye Mitchell - Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and co-director of the Centre for New Writing
- Dr James Paz - Lecturer in Early Medieval Literature
- Mr Tim Price - Senior Lecturer in Screenwriting
- Dr Alan Rawes - Senior Lecturer in Romanticism
- Dr John Roache - Lecturer in 20th Century Literature
- Dr Emily Rohrbach - Lecturer in British Literature 1750-1820
- Dr Michael Sanders - Senior Lecturer in 19th Century Writing
- Prof. Michael Schmidt - Professor of Creative Writing
- Prof. Kamila Shamsie - Professor of Creative Writing
- Dr Robert Spencer - Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature and Culture
- Prof. Jacqueline Stacey - Professor of Media and Cultural Studies
- Ms Beth Underdown - Lecturer in Creative Writing
- Dr Anastasia Valassopoulos - Senior Lecturer in World Literatures
- Dr Christopher Vardy - Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Culture
- Dr Sundhya Walther - Presidential Fellow in World Literatures in English
- Prof. Jeanette Winterson - Professor of Creative Writing
Honorary and Associate staff
- Dr Burcu Alkan - Honorary Research Fellow
- Dr Iain Bailey - Honorary Research Fellow
- Dr David Firth - AHRC NWCDTP Postdoctoral Fellow
- Dr Malcolm Hicks - Honorary Research Fellow
- Dr Roger Holdsworth - Honorary Research Fellow
- Dr William Hutchings - Honorary Research Fellow
- Maxine Peake - Honorary Professor of Literature and Performance
- Dr Rebecca Pohl - Honorary Research Fellow
- Dr Alexander Rumble - Honorary Research Fellow
- Dr Geoffrey Ryman - Honorary Senior Lecturer
- Dr Brian Schneider - Honorary Research Fellow
- Ms Leah Scragg - Honorary Research Fellow
Emeritus staff
- Prof. Patricia Duncker - Emeritus Professor of Contemporary Writing
- Prof. Gale Owen-Crocker - Emeritus Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture
- Prof. Jacqueline Pearson - Emeritus Professor of English Literature
- Prof. Don Scragg - Emeritus Professor
- Prof. Janet Wolff - Emeritus Professor of Cultural Sociology