Dr Carina Bartleet

Lecturer in Drama

Carina's research interests are reflected in her interdisciplinary background: she completed her undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Oxford and, subsequently, moved to the University of Exeter where she studied for a PhD in Drama. Her research interests fall within the area of modern and contemporary theatre and drama.  She is the List Owner for the Modern British Fiction JISC email list and reviews for Theatre Research International (TRI).

Professor Tom Betteridge

Professor of Early Modern English Literature and Drama

Tom Betteridge works on early modern English literature and history and his particular interests in English Reformation literature, William Shakespeare, Tudor court drama, John Foxe, and critical theory. He has published and edited books on Tudor history writing, mid-Tudor literature and William Shakespeare.

Dr Katharine Craik

Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Literature (1500-1750)

Dr Eóin Flannery

Senior Lecturer in English Literature

Eóin's research interests are primarily in the fields of Irish Studies, including contemporary Irish poetry, Irish fiction and Irish visual culture; he also pursues research in the area of postcolonial studies, and has published widely in its relationship with contemporary Irish culture. He is also currently an associate editor of The Irish Book Review and he is the Book Reviews Editor for Utopian Studies. Eóin welcomes research students in any area of Irish literature; postcolonial studies and literary theory.

Dr Alex Goody

Senior Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature, MA in English Programme Director

Alex Goody works primarily in the field of modernist studies, and on American literature and culture. She has published books and articles on Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, American Modernism, New York Dada, technology and literature, jewish writing, and contemporary poetry.

Dr James Hawes

Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing

James is the author of six novels. The first, A White Merc With Fins (1996), was a Sunday Times bestseller, as was his second, Rancid Aluminium (1997). This was filmed, starring Joseph Fiennes, whilst Michael Sheen starred in the adaptation of his third novel Dead Long Enough (2000). The film business was satirized in White Powder, Green Light (2002). Speak for England (2005) has been adapted by Andrew “Bleak House” Davies but has yet to go into production. His most recent novel is My Little Armalite (2008) (“a prolific and increasingly subtle satirist – Guardian, 2008).  His study of Kafka - Excavating Kafka (2008) was called “absolutely brilliant and utterly infuriating”  (Guardian, 2008) was the basis of a BBC documentary televised in November 2008.

Caroline Jackson-Houlston

Senior Lecturer, Field Chair for English

Professor Elisabeth Jay

Associate Dean (Academic) of the School of Arts and Humanities

Dr Simon Kövesi

Senior Lecturer in Romantic Literature

I teach and research Romantic-period literature and culture, ecology and literature, working-class literature (1800 to the present), textual criticism and critical theory (especially ecocriticism), and contemporary Scottish literature.

Dr Daniel Lea

Senior Lecturer in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, Field Chair for English

Dr Eleanor Lowe

Lecturer in Drama

Eleanor’s main research interests are in Early Modern drama, theatre practice, publishing culture, and editorial practices. Her research focuses on the cultural, social and political contexts of Renaissance dramatic texts and their performances, both historical and contemporary. Eleanor has contributed to the AHRC-funded project, The Complete Works of Richard Brome Online (to be published online by The Humanities Research Institute in Spring 2010) and is preparing a critical edition of George Chapman’s A Humorous Day’s Mirth for Digital Renaissance Editions.

Dr Andrea Macrae

Lecturer in Modern Stylistics

Professor Steven Matthews

Assistant Dean, Research and Consultancy, for the School of Arts and Humanities

Steven Matthews' research has mainly centred upon modernism and upon twentieth-century Irish, British and American poetry, and particularly upon the conflicting influences upon poetry across the century.

Dr Nicole Pohl

Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Literature and Critical Theory

Nicole works on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English literature with a particular interest in women's writing and utopias/utopianism.

Professor Rob Pope

Director of Research Student Development and Support in the School of Arts and Humanities.

Creative Writing and its relation to Critical Practice and Cultural Theory

Dr Elizabeth Scott-Baumann

Lecturer in Renaissance Literature

Dr Simon White

Senior Lecturer in Romantic Literature 1780-1830

My research interests span eighteeth- and nineteenth-century literature.  My particular interests include working- / labouring-class writing and culture, the representation of rural life and the rural community, the representation of the relationship between space / landscape and individual / community identity, and witchcraft and magic.

Dr Eric White

Lecturer in American Literature

Eric White works on American modernism in the transatlantic context, and his research focuses on modernist little magazines, avant-garde writing, and modernist poetics and place. He has published and disseminated research on William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, and a range of modernist magazines edited by writers and artists. Eric is currently pursuing a new research project investigating transatlantic modernism and technology.

Jane Yeh

Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing

Jane Yeh is a poet and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing. Her first full-length collection, Marabou, was published in 2005 by Carcanet. It was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award, the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. Her chapbook, Teen Spies, was published in 2003 by Metre Editions.