Staff Research and Teaching Interests

Name	Research/Teaching Interests
Ms Trezza Azzopardi Lecturer in Creative Writing	creative writing; prose
Dr Stephen Benson Senior Lecturer in Literature	contemporary writing; creative-critical writing; writing and sound; writing and music; folktales
Prof Jean Boase-Beier Professor of Literature & Translation	stylistics; translation; poetry; cognitive poetics; Holocaust poetry
Dr Adelene Buckland Lecturer in Literature	literature and science (especially earth sciences); rhetoric; narrative, the novel; Dickens
Dr Kate Campbell Lecturer in Literature	1860-1940 literature, culture, politics; publicity; journalism; Henry James; women's writing
Dr Jo Catling Lecturer in Literature	German literature, especially poetry; Rilke; modernism and the Weimar Republic; women's writing; gender and creativity; Sebald; Hamburger
Prof Amit Chaudhuri Professor in Contemporary Literature
Dr Robert Clark Reader in Literature	English, American and French fiction since 1680; cultural history of the novel; Defoe; Austen; psychoanalysis
Dr Clare Connors Lecturer	creative-critical writing; deconstruction; Derrida; force; Freud; Heidegger; literary theory; Nietzsche; poetics; rhythm & rhyme
Prof Jon Cook Director of Creative & Performing Arts, Emeritus Professor	Romanticism; poetry and theory; cultural criticism; modern poetry; literature and philosophy; Hazlitt
Mr Andrew Cowan Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing	creative writing; prose fiction; novel; creative writing pedagogy
Ms Katherine Drayton Lecturer in Literature	Austen: Regency; medical history; psychiatry; Brontes; madness; hypochondria; doctoring; quackery; suicide
Dr Bj Epstein Lecturer in Literature & Translation	children's literature; translation studies; LGBT/queer studies; queer theory; figurative language; Holocaust studies; detective fiction
Ms Sian Evans Tutor
Ms Antoinette Fawcett Lecturer in Translation	translation
Prof Giles Foden Professor of Creative Writing	creative writing; novel
Mr Tony Frost Lecturer in Drama	improvisation; directing; creative writing; dramatic theory and practice; theatre design; theatre and virtual reality; theatre and violence; classical drama; modern British, European and Eastern theatre traditions
Mr Tony Gash Lecturer in Drama	theatre directing; English, medieval and modern drama; Shakespeare; Plato; Renaissance drama and philosophy; theatrical aesthetics and theory
Prof Lavinia Greenlaw Professor of Creative Writing	creative writing; poetry
Dr Valerie Henitiuk Associate Director BCLT / Senior Lecturer in Literature and Translation	translation; world literature; women's writing; metaphor; liminality; East-West cultural contact; Japanese literature; comparative literature; adaptation
Ms Andrea Holland Tutor in Creative Writing	poetry; creative writing; collaboration/cross-arts practice; ekphrastic writing and links to visual work
Ms Rachel Hore Tutor in Creative Writing and Publishing	creative writing; publishing
Prof Kathryn Hughes Professor of Life Writing	life-writing; journalism; George Eliot; Mrs Beeton
Dr Jake Huntley Tutor in Literature & Creative Writing	Deleuze; critical theory; creative writing; Gothic; horror; vampires; haunting
Mr Michael Lengsfield Tutor in Scriptwriting	scriptwriting; screenwriting; adaptation; film-making; Hollywood
Dr Holly Maples Lecturer in Drama	theatre direction; performance; commemoration; nation; identity
Dr Tim Marshall Senior Lecturer in Literature	19th and 20th century English literature; social context; underworld; poor laws; medical contexts; Gothic; dissection; Frankenstein; Condition of England
Ms Jean Mcneil Tutor
Dr Nola Merckel Lecturer in Literature	19th and 20th century European literature, especially French; Balzac; Flaubert; Zola; fin de siècle; literary and visual culture; art and writing; 19th-century drama; Ibsen; Strindberg; comedy; cultural theory; city writings; nouveau roman
Dr John Miller Postdoctoral Lecturing Fellow in Literature	Empire; post colonialism; globalisation; Rider Haggard; Conrad
Dr Antoinette Moses Lecturer in Scriptwriting	creative writing; theatre; documentary; children's fiction
Dr Jeremy Noel-Tod Lecturer in Literature and Creative Writing	contemporary poetry; Anglo-American modernism; poetics; T.S. Eliot; experimental prose; creative-critical; online writing; imagined Englands
Ms Rebecca Pinner Postdoctoral Lecturing Fellow in Literature	medieval literature and visual culture; saints
Dr Jo Poppleton Lecturer in Literature
Dr Rachel Potter Senior Lecturer in English Literature	modernism; Joyce; censorship
Prof Joad Raymond Professor of English Literature	16th and 17th century literature; print culture; politics; polemics; news; pamphlets; Milton; angels
Mr Thomas Rutledge Lecturer in Literature	older Scots literature; Virgilian tradition; classical reception; adaptation and translation; Orpheus; Henryson, Douglas, Bellenden; Italian influence in Scotland.
Dr Karen Schaller Lecturer in Literature	Theories and discourses of emotion, affect and feeling; critical theory; Elizabeth Bowen; the short story; creative-critical intersections and methodologies; cinema and cinematic subjectivity; texture and touch; psychoanalysis; deconstruction
Mr James Scudamore UEA Writing Fellow
Dr Cath Sharrock Lecturer in Literature	18th and 19th-century literature; medical and cultural history of hysteria; hypochondria; the nerves; sensibility; French Revolution Controversy in England; 17th-21st-century theories of gender and sexuality; Romanticism (particularly Charlotte Smith, Anna Letitia Barbauld and Mary Robinson)
Dr Helen Smith Lecturer in Literature	biography; life writing; Russian literature; publishing history; modernism.
Dr Karen Smyth Lecturer in Medieval / Early Modern Lit	medieval literature; Chaucer; Lydgate; Hoccleve; medieval drama; literature and science; study of time; gender studies; life writing; East Anglian authors
Prof Lyndsey Stonebridge Professor Literature & Critical Theory	modern literature; critical theory; psychoanalysis; trauma theory; human rights and critical refugee studies.
Prof Rebecca Stott Professor Literature & Creative Writing	Darwin; historical fiction; history; creative writing; Newton; evolution; ghosts; gothic novel
Dr George Szirtes Reader in Creative Writing	creative writing; poetry; art and writing
Dr Matthew Taunton Leverhulme Fellow	Twentieth-century literature, culture and politics; the city and literature; Soviet Communism and English literature; media history and theory.
Ms Val Taylor Director of Scriptwriting	theory and practice of scriptwriting (stage, screen, radio); directing; screenwriting; adaptation; text and performance
Prof John Thieme Lecturer in Literature	postcolonial writing and cultures
Ms Sophie Vaughan Tutor in Drama
Mr Steven Waters Lecturer in Creative Writing	Contemporary playwriting; Theatre and Ecology; Political Theatre; the form of plays; Screenwriting as an art; the pedagogy of playwriting
Dr Ross Wilson Lecturer in Literature	Romanticism; nineteenth-century poetry; aesthetics; critical theory; the Frankfurt School; Adorno
Prof Peter Womack Professor of Literature and Drama
Dr Matthew Woodcock Senior Lecturer in Literature	medieval literature; early modern literature; the history of professional authorship; early modern soldier-poets; literary biography; Edmund Spenser; William Shakespeare; Sir Philip Sidney; Fulke Greville; Thomas Churchyard.
Dr Tamsin Badcoe Postdoctoral Lecturing Fellow	early modern literature; Spenser; Shakespeare; Nashe; literary geography; print culture