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School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics
Staff Profile
Emerita Professor Linda Anderson
Professor of Modern English and American Literature
Professor James Annesley
Associate Dean for Research and Innovation (HaSS)
Emeritus Professor Bruce Babington
Emeritus Professor
Emeritus Professor John Batchelor
Emeritus Professor
Dr Tara Bergin
Senior Lecturer in Writing Poetry (Creative Writing)
Emeritus Professor Noel Burton-Roberts
Professor of English Language and Linguistics
Dr Mark Byers
Lecturer
Emeritus Professor Tom Cain
Emeritus Professor
Professor Kate Chedgzoy
Professor of Renaissance Literature
Dr Ruth Connolly
Senior Lecturer
Professor Karen Corrigan
Director of Research in Linguistics
Sherelle Coulson
Deputy School Manager
Dr James Cummings
Reader in Digital Textual Studies and Late Medieval Literature
Dr Christine Cuskley
Reader in Language and Cognition
Dr Kate De Rycker
Lecturer in Renaissance Literature
Dr Daniel Duncan
Senior Lecturer
Dr Helen Freshwater
Reader in Theatre & Performance
Dr Tina Gharavi
Reader in English: Screenwriting & Film
Emeritus Professor Desmond Graham
Emeritus Professor
Emeritus Professor Anders Holmberg
Emeritus Professor, FBA, MAE
Dr Joseph Hone
Academic Track Fellow in Literature and Book History
Professor Lars Iyer
Professor of Creative Writing
Dr Laura Kirkley
Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Dr Ella Mershon
Lecturer in Victorian Literature
Professor Sinéad Morrissey
Professor of Creative Writing
Dr Emily Murphy
Senior Lecturer in Children's Literature
Dr Aditi Nafde
Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature
Dr Meiko O'Halloran
Senior Lecturer in Romantic Literature
Dr Jennifer Orr
Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth Century Literature; NEPS Mentor
Dr Kendra Packham
Research Associate
Dr Natalia Pavlovskaya
Associate Lecturer 21/22
Professor Jacob Polley
Professor of Creative Writing
Professor James Procter
Prof of Modern & Contemporary Lit
Emeritus Professor Peter Reynolds
Emeritus Professor
Emerita Professor Kim Reynolds
Emerita Professor
Professor Jennifer Richards
Visiting Professor
Dr Thom Robinson
Associate Lecturer
Professor Michael Rossington
Professor of Romantic Literature
Professor Karen Sands-O'Connor
British Academy Global Professor
Dr Leanne Stokoe
Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Professor Preti Taneja
Professor of World Literature and Creative Writing
Dr Rory Turnbull
Senior Lecturer
Dr William van der Wurff
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
Emeritus Professor Diana Whaley
Emeritus Professor / Professor Emeritus of Early Medieval Studies
Dr Emma Whipday
Senior Lecturer
Professor Anne Whitehead
Prof of Modern & Contemporary Literature
Dr Rebecca Woods
Senior Lecturer: Language and Cognition
Emeritus Professor Terry Wright
Emeritus Professor
Dr Tamar Lindesay
Visiting Lecturer
Dr Chloe Ashbridge
Lecturer in Modern & Contemporary Literature
Dr Christy Ducker
Royal Literary Fund Fellow
Emeritus Professor Sean O'Brien
Professor of Creative Writing
Professor Alex Pheby
Head of Creative Writing
Dr Barbara Gribling
Visiting Researcher
Dr Vean Al-Saka
Associate Lecturer 21/22
Dr Niamh Kelly
Lecturer in Phonetics and Phonology
Dr Gabriel Martinez Vera
Lecturer in Pragmatics
Dr Emma Nguyen
Lecturer in Child Language Aquisition
Dr Chiara Pellegrini
Associate Lecturer 22/23
Dr Mary Robinson
Research Associate Language Variation
Dr Olivia Smith
Research Associate (Bee-ing Human)
Dr Laura Wright
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Dr Marco Medugno
Associate Lecturer 2023/24
Andrew Thompson
Lecturer in Creative Writing
Jake Phipps
Associate Lecturer 21/22
Dr Hayley Toth
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow
Dr Sujeewa Hettiarachchi
Senior Lecturer in Second Language Acquisition
Dr Shalini Sengupta
Lecturer in Diasporic and/or Black British Literatures
Dr Theresa Muñoz
Research Associate: Contemporary Poetry
Dr Rachel Hewitt
Visiting Fellow
Dr Helen King
Research Associate: Childrens Literature