Staff Members
Dr Scott Brewster
Associate Professor
Gothic literature; the ghost story; Irish Studies; modern poetry; psychoanalysis
Dr Owen Clayton
Senior Lecturer
19th/20th century transatlantic literature; vagrancy and homelessness; prison writing; literature and photography
Dr Alice Crossley
Senior Lecturer
19th century literature; ageing; masculinity; material culture; Victorian valentines
Dr Amy Culley
Associate Professor
18th Century literature and Romanticism; life writing; ageing; gender; women’s literary history
Dr Laura Gill
Lecturer in English
19th Century literature and visual culture; John Milton and literary influence; environmental humanities
Dr Christopher Marlow
Senior Lecturer
Shakespeare; Early Modern Literature; theory; masculinity; sexuality; science fiction
Dr Kristian Shaw
Associate Professor
Contemporary British and American literature; cosmopolitanism; Brexit; migration; devolution
Dr Rebecca Styler
Associate Professor
19th century women’s writing; literature and religion; spiritual auto/biography; childhood; Gothic; utopias
Dr Emily Timms
Lecturer in Contemporary Global Literatures
Contemporary global literatures; postcolonial studies; age studies; medical humanities; Caribbean/Indigenous literature
Dr Renée Ward
Senior Lecturer
Medieval literature; Medievalism; romance and outlaw narratives (especially Robin Hood), animals and monsters