Staff in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics are interested in supervising research projects in the following areas of expertise. Click on the links below for further subject detail, or scroll down the page for an alphabetical listing of all staff research interests:
Prof. Linda Anderson (Professor of Modern English and American Literature), Room C5, Ph. 2228059, linda.anderson@ncl.ac.uk: Autobiography, feminist and psychoanalytic theory, contemporary women's fiction and modern American women's poetry.
Dr James Annesley (Senior Lecturer in American Literature & Culture), Room A25, Ph. 2226617, james.annesley@ncl.ac.uk: American literature, contemporary literature and culture, globalization, consumer society and lifestyle.
Dr John Beck (Reader in American Studies), Room A1.16, Ph. 2223532, john.beck@ncl.ac.uk: American Literature, mainly 19th and 20th Century poetry and fiction; American intellectual history; modernism and postmodernism; literature and the visual arts; environmental writing.
Dr Melanie Bell (Lecturer in Film), Room A29, Ph. 2227760, melanie.bell@ncl.ac.uk: British film and British film culture, mainly 1940s to present day. Feminist film historiography; female creative agency in film production; representations of femininity in popular culture; questions of gender, national identity and cultural consciousness.
Prof. Noel Burton-Roberts (Professor of English Language & Linguistics), Room 1.13, Ph. 2227753, noel.burton-roberts@ncl.ac.uk: Linguistics; syntax, semantics and pragmatics; structure of present-day English; philosophy of language.
Prof. Kate Chedgzoy (Professor of Renaissance Literature), Room A353, Ph. 2227755, kate.chedgzoy@ncl.ac.uk: 17th-Century literature and culture, with particular reference to questions of gender, sexuality, and national identity; Shakespeare; lesbian and gay theories and cultures; children's literature.
Dr Ruth Connolly (Lecturer in 17th-Century Literature), Room 1.18, Ph. 2228133, ruth.connolly@ncl.ac.uk: Seventeenth-century literature, especially poetry and life-writing; early modern women's writing; manuscript studies; book history; theory and practice of editing; early modern intellectual circles.
Prof. Karen Corrigan (Professor of Linguistics and English Language), Room A9, Ph. 2227757, k.p.corrigan@ncl.ac.uk: Old and Middle English language and Modern Irish; socio-historical linguistics, with special reference to Irish-English; social and linguistic correlates of language generation and degeneration; discourse analysis.
Dr Andrew Crumey (Lecturer in Creative Writing - part-time), Room A6, Ph. 2223689, andrew.crumey@ncl.ac.uk: Novels of ideas and the representation of ideas in fiction; theory of the novel; history of ideas; science and literature; music and narrative; teaching on creative writing courses.
Dr Ella Dzelzainis (Lecturer in 19th-Century Literature), Room A19, Ph. 2227198, ella.dzelzainis@ncl.ac.uk: Nineteenth-century literature and intellectual history, especially the novel of reform; politics and representation; women writers; gender, sexuality and economics; Malthusian fictions.
Dr Cristina Dye, Room A34, Ph. 2225224, cristina.dye@ncl.ac.uk: Language acquisition, development and processing in monolingual/multilingual and normal/abnormal child populations; neurodevelopmental disorders (SLI, Dyslexia, Autism, Tourette syndrome).
Dr Helen Freshwater, Room A22, Ph. 2227764, helen.freshwater@ncl.ac.uk: Twentieth-century British theatre and contemporary performance: censorship, audiences, participation and interactivity, archive theory and historiography, the child in performance.
Dr Abbie Garrington (Lecturer in 19th -20th Century Literature), Room A352, Ph. 2225316, abbie.garrington@ncl.ac.uk: Modernism in literature and culture (particularly film); Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson, D. H. Lawrence; literature and environment.
Ms Tina Gharavi (Lecturer in Film/Digital Media), Room A30, Ph. 2223520, tina.gharavi@ncl.ac.uk: Filmmaker in experimental documentary practice; screenwriting; and community.
Dr Stacy Gillis (Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature) (On maternity leave 2011-12), Room C3, Ph. 2227360, stacy.gillis@ncl.ac.uk: Feminist History and Theory; Gender and Genre Studies; Sensation Fiction; Detective Fiction; Cyberculture and Cyberpunk.
Dr Matthew Grenby (Reader in Children's Literature), Room 1.09, Ph. 2226182, matthew.grenby@ncl.ac.uk: Children's literature and culture, especially eighteenth and nineteenth century; Romantic-era fiction, especially political novels; history of readership and book distribution; British literature and the French Revolution.
Dr Sarah Haggarty (Lecturer in 18th and 19th Literature), Room A31, Ph. 2227782, sarah.haggarty@ncl.ac.uk: British literature, art, culture, history and religion in the 18th century, Romantic and early-Victorian periods.
Dr S. J. Hannahs (Senior Lecturer in Linguistics), Room A38, Ph. 2223400, s.j.hannahs@ncl.ac.uk: Theoretical phonology and morphology; phonological structure; bilingualism; Celtic, Romance and Germanic linguistics.
Dr Rosalind Haslett, Room A8, 222 5660, rosalind.haslett@ncl.ac.uk: British and American theatre of the 20th century; theatre-making processes and modes of production; theatre architecture; the history and current practice of dramaturgy and literary management; writing for performance.
Prof. Bill Herbert (Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing), Room A22, Ph. 2223517, bill.herbert@ncl.ac.uk: Creative Writing theory and practice; contemporary poetry; modern Scottish poetry (especially Davidson, MacDiarmid and Morgan); poetry in Scots from the medieval to the present.
Prof. Anders Holmberg (Professor in Theoretical Linguistics), Room A32, Ph. 2223530 anders.holmberg@ncl.ac.uk: Syntactic theory; comparative syntax; the Scandinavian languages; Finnish.
Prof. Jackie Kay (Professor of Creative Writing - part-time), Room A6, Ph. 2223689, jackie.kay@ncl.ac.uk: Poet and author, teaching on creative writing courses.
Dr Kirsten MacLeod (Lecturer in 19th -20th Century Literature), Room A10, Ph. 2227118, kirsten.macleod@ncl.ac.uk: British and American Literature and print culture, 1880-1930; Aestheticism and Decadence; Popular print culture.
Dr Shehzana Mamujee, Room A301 (until January 2012), Room A32 (after January 2012), Ph. 2227599, shehzana.mamujee@ncl.ac.uk
Dr Graham Matthews, Room 3.03, Ph. 2227360, graham.matthews2@ncl.ac.uk: Contemporary literature; critical theory; satire; film; medical humanities.
Dr Hermann Moisl (Senior Lecturer), Room A11, Ph. 2227781, hermann.moisl@ncl.ac.uk: Germanic and Celtic languages; Anglo-Saxon literature and history; computational linguistics; formal language and automata theory; neural networks; natural language engineering.
Dr Meiko O'Halloran (Lecturer in Romantic Literature), Room A26, Ph. 2227759, meiko.o'halloran@ncl.ac.uk: British and Scottish Romanticism, especially the work of James Hogg; illegitimacy in the eighteenth and nineteenth-century novel; ideas of national identity, the othic, the short story and periodical culture (especially Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine).
Prof. Sean O'Brien (Professor of Creative Writing - part-time), Room C11, Ph. 2223875, sean.o'brien@ncl.ac.uk: Poetry, playwriting, short stories, editing.
Dr Lucy Pearson, Room 1.03, Ph. 2223533, lucy.pearson@ncl.ac.uk: Children's literature, especially post-war publishing and contemporary young adult literature; transformative works and fan cultures.
Prof. Michael Pincombe (Professor of Tudor & Elizabethan Literature), Room A10, Ph. 2227621, mike.pincombe@ncl.ac.uk: 16th Century literature, especially mid-Tudor and early Elizabethan poetry and drama; supernatural fiction, especially the English ghost story.
Dr Geoff Poole (Senior Lecturer in Linguistics), Room A17, Ph. 2225824, geoffrey.poole@ncl.ac.uk: Syntactic theory; philosophy of linguistics; history of linguistics; first and language acquisition.
Dr James Procter (Reader in Modern English and Postcolonial Literatures), Room 1.12, Ph. 2223518, james.procter@ncl.ac.uk: Postwar British fiction (1945-present), black British and Caribbean writing; postcolonial, diaspora and migrant literatures; the modern short story (1920s-1960s) and its relationship to empire; readers and reception in global and postcolonial contexts; Stuart Hall and British Cultural Studies.
Prof. Kim Reynolds (Professor of Children's Literature), Room 1.03, Ph. 2223533, kim.reynolds@ncl.ac.uk: Children's literature; the histories of childhood and children's publishing; Victorian/Edwardian literature.
Prof. Peter Reynolds (Professor of Theatre Studies and Deputy Head of School), Room C7, Ph. 2225123, peter.reynolds@ncl.ac.uk: Shakespeare, performance and pedagogy; contemporary British theatre; drama, theatre and prisons; documenting live performance and rehearsal.
Prof. Jennifer Richards (Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture), Room A12, Ph. 2227754, jennifer.richards@ncl.ac.uk: 16th and 17th Century literature and history, especially Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare and Milton; women writers, rhetoric; gender; critical theory.
Dr Michael Rossington (Senior Lecturer in Romantic Literature), Room A318, Ph. 2223427, michael.rossington@ncl.ac.uk: Percy Shelley, including manuscripts and editions of his writings; the work of Mary Shelley; scholarly editing; literature in English, French and Italian of the Romantic period, especially poetry, life-writing and republican discourse; Romanticism as a European phenomenon, particularly Rousseau's legacy; comparatist approaches to Alfieri, Byron, Foscolo, the Shelleys and Staël.
Dr Andrew Shail (Lecturer in Film), Room A23, Ph. 2227752, andrew.shail@ncl.ac.uk: Early film and film culture; Hollywood since 1975; intermediality; modernism; the literary landscape in Britain 1880-1930; the history of the body, especially menstruation and modernism.
Dr Neelam Srivastava (Senior Lecturer in Colonial/Postcolonial Lit), Room 1.6, Ph. 2223665, neelam.srivastava@ncl.ac.uk: Indian literature in English; postcolonial theory; English as a postcolonial language; Indian historiography and political theories; cinema.
Prof. Maggie Tallerman (Professor of Linguistics), Room 1.07, Ph. 2227751, maggie.tallerman@ncl.ac.uk: Origins and evolution of syntax and morphology; Brythonic Celtic syntax and morphology; language typology; syntactic theory.
Dr William van der Wurff (Senior Lecturer in Linguistics), Room A39, Ph. 2223876, w.a.m.van-der-wurff@ncl.ac.uk: The history of English, diachronic syntax, grammaticalisation, tense-mood-aspect systems, Bengali linguistics.
Dr Joel Wallenberg, Room A351, Ph. 2227366, joel.wallenberg@ncl.ac.uk: The theory of language change, with particular emphasis on the quantitative study of morphosyntactic change and the relationship between language acquisition and change; syntactic variation and change in Germanic, particularly historical English and Icelandic. Also syntactic theory in general, especially scrambling and linearization.
Dr Cathleen Waters, Room A28, Ph. 2223519, cathleen.waters@ncl.ac.uk: Language variation and change; sociolinguistics; dialectology; comparative sociolinguistics; corpus analysis; syntax of English.
Prof. Diana Whaley (Professor of Early Medieval Studies), Room A14, Ph. 2227756, diana.whaley@ncl.ac.uk: Old and Middle English language and literature; Old Icelandic and Name Studies; Old Norse-Icelandic literature and onomastics, especially the placenames of the Lake District.
Dr Anne Whitehead (Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature and Theory), Room 1.15, Ph. 2223531, anne.whitehead@ncl.ac.uk: Trauma theory; psychoanalytic criticism; Holocaust literature; critical theory.
Ms Margaret Wilkinson (Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing - part-time), Room A18, Ph. 2225225, margaret.wilkinson@ncl.ac.uk: Author and dramatist; teaching on creative writing courses.
Dr Martha Young-Scholten (Senior Lecturer in Second Language Acquisition), Room A33, Ph. 2227751, martha.young-scholten@ncl.ac.uk: First and second language acquisition; second language pedagogy; phonology; Germanic linguistics.