Literature and Languages
Research
Staff Research Interests - Overview
Bethan Benwell, B.A. PhD. (Senior Lecturer)
Discourse analysis, genre analysis, educational linguistics, gender and language in the media.
Glennis Byron (Stephenson), B.A. M.A. PhD. (Professor)
Romantic and Victorian Writers, the Gothic.
John Drakakis, B.A. M.A. PhD. Dip.Ed. (Professor)
17th-century textual bibliography, Renaissance literature, critical theory and modern drama and media studies.
Suzanne Gilbert, B.A. PhD. (Lecturer)
Scottish literature (particularly the eighteenth century and early nineteenth century), Romantic literature, and the oral tradition.
Katherine Halsey, B.A. M.Phil. PhD. (Lecturer)
Eighteenth-century literature, Jane Austen, the history of reading and the history of the book.
Scott Hames, B.A. PhD. (Lecturer)
Modern Scottish fiction (particularly James Kelman and Robert Louis Stevenson); modernism and critical theory; politics and narrative form.
Adrian Hunter, M.A. PhD. (Senior Lecturer)
American literature, the short story, James Hogg.
Kathleen Jamie, FRSL
Contemporary poetry, creative non-fiction, literature and landscape.
David Miller, B.A. PhD. (Lecturer)
Padmini Ray Murray B.A. M.A. PhD (Lecturer)
Stephen Penn, B.A. M.Phil. D.Phil (Lecturer)
Medieval literary and linguistic theory; Latin writings of John Wyclif; the relationship between Latin and vernacular discourses in the later Middle Ages.
David Richards, B.A. M.A. PhD. (Professor)
Colonial and postcolonial literature, anthropology, art history and cultural theory.
Gemma Robinson, B.A. M.A. PhD. (Senior Lecturer)
Caribbean writing, especially poetry; Guyanese culture and politics; postcolonial literatures and cultures; Black British writing; slavery in the Americas; publishing in the Caribbean; textual criticism.
Frances Sessford, B.A. M.Phil. (Lecturer)
Business/financial aspects of publishing and editing.
Claire Squires, B.A. M.A. D.Phil. (Professor)
Publishing studies, 20th/21st century history of the book and print culture, literary and children’s publishing, literary prizes.
Dale Townshend, B.A. M.A. PhD. (Lecturer)
Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, the new historicism of Michel Foucault, and Gothic writing of the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth centuries