Dr Stacy Gillis (School of English; Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature)
Prof. Kate Chedgzoy (School of English; Professor of Renaissance Literature)
Dr Monica Morena Figueroa (School of Geography, Politics and Sociology; Lecturer in Sociology)
Dr Carolyn Pedwell (School of Arts and Cultures; Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies)
Anne Graefer: my research interests are located at the intersection of gender studies, media and cultural studies with a focus on post-critiques (especially feminist and queer theory). Key concerns are related to skin, identity, cyberspace, visuality, affect and celebrity-culture.
Ashleigh Sawyer: my research interests are centred around Muslim women's activism in Britain and the way in which these organisations are gaining momentum through the utilisation of alternative spaces namely discussion forums and social networking sites.
Emma Short: my research interests include: feminist theory, modernist literature, embodiment theory, theories of space, place and identity (particularly in relation to corporeality), liminal spaces, and theories of memory and loss.
Rosalie Tuplin: my research interests are popular short fiction 1890-1930,fin-de-siecle, first world war and post-war masculinities, masculinity and class, andthe upper classes in middlebrow fiction.
Louise Tolson: my research involves the study of nineteenth-century domestic material culture as vessels for the communal knowledge of working-class women, by using archaeological material in conjunction with oral history recording.
Anu Vaittinen: I study the embodied-sensory practice of Mixed Martial Arts (cage fighting) and explore the way gender, class and race intersect in the participants’ lived experiences, sporting practices and spaces. Research interests: Phenomenology, embodiment, lived experience, masculinity, class, race, edgework, pain, injury and violence in sport.