People

Find out more about the members of the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture (CSSC).

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  Jackie Stacey

  Jackie Stacey is Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture, and organiser of the annual Sexuality Summer School (currently with PhD students Sabine Sharp and Janelle Hixon). Her publications include Star Gazing: Hollywood Cinema and Female Spectatorship (1994), Teratologies: A Cultural Study of Cancer (1997), and The Cinematic Life of the Gene (2010). She has published articles in a number of journals, including New Formations, Differences, and Camera Obscura.

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  Ben Nichols

  Ben Nichols is Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture and Lecturer in Gender and Sexuality Studies. His publications include Same Old: Queer Theory, Literature and the Politics of Sameness (2020), as well as articles in journals such as GLQ, Textual Practice and the Henry James Review.

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  David Alderson

  David Alderson is a Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies and has written extensively on gender, sexuality, and the neoliberal transition in journals such as Camera Obscura, Critical Practice and New Formations, as well as in his book, Sex, Needs and Queer Culture: From Liberation to the Postgay (Zed Books, 2016). His work is cultural materialist in orientation, and he sits on the editorial board of the journal of the Raymond Williams Society, Key Words.

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  Daniela Caselli

  Daniela Caselli is Professor of Modern Literature. Her research on modernism, gender and sexuality, and critical theory has appeared in Feminist Theory, The Cambridge Companion to American Gay and Lesbian Literature, Parallax, and Comparative Literature. She is principal investigator (with Prof. Ben Harker) on the AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award Total Liberation: Feminism, Socialism, Red Rag (1972-1980). She is the author of Insufferable: Beckett, Gender and Sexuality (Cambridge University Press, 'Elements in Beckett Studies Series' forthcoming).

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  Laura Doan

  Laura Doan is Professor Emerita of Cultural History and Sexuality Studies. She is the author of Disturbing Practices: History, Sexuality and Women's Experience of Modern War (2013) and Fashioning Sapphism: The Origins of a Modern English Lesbian Culture (2001). She has published articles in a number of journals, including GLQ, Gender & History, and PMLA.

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  Noelle Duckmann Gallagher

  Noelle Dückmann Gallagher is Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture, with particular interests in the history of the body, sexual health, and the medicalization of sexuality and gender. Her most recent book is Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination (Yale, 2019). Recent articles have explored eighteenth-century attitudes to breast cancer, circumcision and erectile dysfunction.

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  H. Gareth Gavin

  H. Gareth Gavin's work moves between fiction, theory, and forms of creative criticism, and is broadly informed by interests in queer and trans theory, architecture, and film. His novel, Midland: A Novel Out of Time, was shortlisted for the 2015 Gordon Burn Prize. He is also the author of a monograph on the encounter between early-twentieth-century literature and silent film, Literature, and Film, Dispositioned: Thought, Location, World (Palgrave, 2014). Never Was will be published by Cipher Press in 2023.

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  Hal Gladfelder

  Hal Gladfelder is Professor of English and Comparative Literature, with particular interests in eighteenth-century literature and culture, history and theory of the novel, and the history of sexuality and gender. His research addresses key issues in the history of authorship and contributes to contemporary debates on pornography, censorship, and the history of sexuality. His current project reflects on the European fascination with the castrati of the eighteenth century, and the literary afterlives of that fascination.

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  James Metcalf

  James Metcalf is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century English Literature. His research focuses on poetry, gender, sexuality, and labour in the long eighteenth century, and he has published articles and chapters on the poets Charlotte Smith, Robert Blair, Elizabeth Carter, and Mary Leapor. His first monograph is Churchyard Poetics: Landscape, Labour, and the Legacy of Genre (Oxford University Press, 2025).

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  Kaye Mitchell

  Kaye Mitchell is a Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Director of the Centre for New Writing. She has written widely on modern and contemporary literature, gender, and sexuality, and has particular interests in women's experimental writing, affect theory, and feminist literary criticism. Her most recent book is Writing Shame: Contemporary Literature, Gender and Negative Affect (EUP, 2020); she is Co-Editor of the OUP journal, Contemporary Women's Writing, and a member of the editorial board of Open Gender Journal in Germany.

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  Monica Pearl

  Monica Pearl is Senior Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature and has written extensively on AIDS writing and visual and dramatic representation. She also works on letters and memoirs, focusing recently on American coming-out narratives. Her recent book, AIDS Literature and Gay Identity: The Literature of Loss (2013), discusses the significance of late twentieth century and early twenty-first century American fiction written in response to the AIDS crisis and interrogates how sexual identity is depicted and constructed textually.

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  Anastasia Valassopoulos

  Anastasia Valassopoulos is Senior Lecturer in World Literatures at The University of Manchester. Her research is on the postcolonial literature and culture of the Middle East. She is also very interested in the wider cultural production and reception of Middle Eastern women's writing and Arab feminism. Recent publications include work on anti-colonial feminism in North Africa, the role of cinema in the Palestinian resistance movement, as well as film, revolution, and music in the Egyptian context (with Dalia Mostafa).

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