Research Supervision and Teaching

Professor Karen Corrigan (Professor of Linguistics and English Language/Director of Research in Linguistics) - Corpus linguistics; English in Ireland/Northern England; historical English linguistics; Language variation and change; Language and migration; sociosyntax.

Dr Christine Cuskley (Lecturer in Language and Cognition) - Evolution and dynamics of conventions; cultural evolution; sound symbolism; language and synaesthesia; communication games; population dynamics and language structure.

Dr Daniel Duncan (Lecturer in Sociolinguistics) - Sociolinguistics; linguistic variation; place; style in popular culture; (American) English.

Dr Niamh Kelly (Lecturer in Phonetics and Phonology) - Phonetics, phonology; prosody; phonetics & phonology of multilingualism.

Dr Gabriel Martinez Vera (Lecturer in Pragmatics) - Semantics; pragmatics; syntactic theory; under-represented (Andean) languages; Romance linguistics; fieldwork; language documentation; bilingualism (second language acquisition, heritage language).

Dr Adam Mearns (Senior Lecturer in the History of the English Language) - The history of the English language (especially lexical semantics); Old English & Middle English language and literature; language variation and change (especially in the North East of England); corpora (construction, development and applications).

Dr Emma Nguyen (Lecturer in Child Language Acquisition) - First language acquisition of syntax and semantics; psycholinguistics; experimental linguistics.

Dr Heike Pichler (Senior Lecturer in Variationist Sociolinguistics) - Language variation and change; sociolinguistics; language contact; language and ageing; discourse-pragmatic features; spoken English.

Dr Geoff Poole (Senior Lecturer in Linguistics) - Syntactic theory; philosophy of linguistics; structure of Medieval Spanish; comparative Romance (Historical) syntax.

Professor Michelle Sheehan (Professor of Linguistics) - Comparative syntax; linguistic theory; Romance linguistics; heritage languages; language change; philosophy of language; pedagogical linguistics.

Dr Rory Turnbull (Lecturer in Phonetics and Phonology) - Phonetic reduction; laboratory phonology; prosody; phonetic psycholinguistics; network science; speech perception.

Dr William van der Wurff (Senior Lecturer in Historical Linguistics) - Language change; historical syntax; history of English; lexical innovation.

Dr Rebecca Woods (Senior Lecturer in Language and Cognition) - Child acquisition of syntax; semantics; pragmatics (monolingual or multilingual); syntactic theory; formal pragmatic theory; speech acts; codeswitching; heritage language syntax/semantics/pragmatics.

Professor James Annesley (Professor of American Literature) - 20th and 21st-century American fiction; consumer culture and contemporary lifestyle.

Dr Chloe Ashbridge (Lecturer in Modern & Contemporary Literature) – 21st-century British literary culture and politics; millennial fiction; neoliberal governmentality.

Dr Mark Byers (Lecturer in Contemporary Poetry) - American modernism; British surrealism; late modernist poetry.

Professor Kate Chedgzoy (Professor of Renaissance Literature) - 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 (Senior Lecturer in 17th-century Literature) - 17th-century literature, especially poetry; early modern women's writing; scholarly editing; early modern cultures of print and manuscript.

Dr James Cummings (Senior Lecturer in Late Medieval English Literature and Digital Humanities) - Scholarly digital editing; digital publishing; late medieval drama/texts.

Dr Kate De Rycker (Lecturer in Renaissance Literature) - print authorship and literary reputations; metadramatic scenes or plays; European 'go-betweens' in the English theatre or print industry; theatre history; drama in print; popular print culture.

Dr Ella Dzelzainis (Senior Lecturer in 19th-century Literature) - 19th-century literature and intellectual history, especially the novel of reform; politics and representation; women writers; gender, sexuality and economics; Malthusian fictions.

Dr Helen Freshwater (Reader in Theatre and Performance) - Theatre for children and young people; audiences; 20th century British theatre; contemporary performance; the theatrical representation of the child.

Dr Stacy Gillis (Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature) - 20th-century British fiction; popular fiction; detective and sensation fiction; feminist theory; First World War.

Professor Matthew Grenby (Professor of 18_^th-century literature) - 18th-century literature; children's literature and culture; political novel; book history; history of heritage.

Dr James Harriman-Smith (Senior Lecturer in Restoration and 18th-century Literature) - Literary and intellectual history of the period 1660-1830; theatre; aesthetic theory.

Dr Rosalind Haslett (Lecturer in Dramatic Literature) - Dramaturgy and literary management; theatre history and historiography; British regional theatre; post-conflict Northern Irish theatre; playwriting.

Dr Jacob Jewusiak (Lecturer in Victorian Literature) - 19th and early-20th century literature, age studies, postcolonial theory, and the philosophy of time.

Dr Laura Kirkley (Senior Lecturer in 18th-century Literature) - Revolutionary feminism, particularly Mary Wollstonecraft; women's writing in the long 18th-century; 1790s radicalism; literary and cultural exchange between Britain and France; Enlightenment and Romantic cosmopolitanism.

Dr Kirsten MacLeod (Reader in Modernist Print Culture) - Victorian and modernist print culture; periodical studies; Aestheticism and Decadence; history of publishing and authorship; modernism.

Dr Robbie McLaughlan (Lecturer in English Literature) - Postcolonial Studies; the history of Empire; imperial cartography; the fin de siècle, colonialism and modernism; theory (particularly network theory, Marxism/Leninism and the history of psychoanalysis).

Dr Ella Mershon (Lecturer in Victorian Literature) – 19th-century literature, ecocriticism and the environmental humanities; science and technology studies; gender and sexuality studies; queer theory; science fiction.

Dr Emily Murphy (Senior Lecturer in Children’s Literature) - Post-1945 American literature (both for children and adults); childhood studies.

Dr Aditi Nafde (Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature) - Late medieval literature, especially literary manuscripts and early print.

Dr Alex Niven (Lecturer in English Literature) - Art and identity of the north-east; modernist and contemporary poetry; intersections between literature, popular music and contemporary politics; the history and afterlife of the Anglo-American counterculture.

Dr Meiko O'Halloran (Senior Lecturer in Romantic Literature) - British and Scottish Romanticism; the 18th century and Romantic-era novel; periodical writing and the literary marketplace; Gothic literature in the 18th and 19th-centuries.

Dr Jennifer Orr (Senior Lecturer in 18th-century Literature) - Scottish and Irish Romantic period literature; radical poetry; print culture of the 'long' 18^th-century; labouring-class poetry; landscape and sense of place in Romantic poetry.

Dr Lucy Pearson (Senior Lecturer in Children's Literature) - Children's literature; modern and contemporary literature; book history; publishing history.

Professor James Procter (Professor of Modern English Literature & Postcolonial Literature) - Caribbean and Black British literature; postwar British literature; contemporary fiction; postcolonial writing/theory; short fiction and empire.

 (Lecturer in Romantic Literature) - Romantic and 18th-century utopianism; the work of Percy Shelley; utopian poetry.

Professor Jo Robinson (Professor of Theatre and Performance) - Histories and practice of regional theatre and performance.

Professor Michael Rossington (Professor of Romantic Literature) - Romantic period poetry and life writing; the Shelleys; scholarly editing; reception; translation.

Professor Karen Sands-O'Connor (British Academy Global Professor) - Contemporary Black British writers for children; children's publishing; radical activism and children's literature, particularly after 1945; nationalism and children's literature.

Professor Neelam Srivastava (Professor of Postcolonial and World Literature) - Indian/South Asian literature in English; postcolonial theory; cultural histories of Italian colonialism and postcolonialism; postcolonial cinema; postcolonial translation; anti-colonial writing between 1930 and 1970.

Dr Leanne Stokoe (Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature) - Romanticism and genre; utilitarian ethics and economics and the philosophies of the Scottish Enlightenment.

Dr Fionnghuala Sweeney (Reader in American Literature) - American, African American and Caribbean literature in the 19th and 20th centuries; slavery, literature and visual culture; Afromodernisms; theoretical intersections between the black Atlantic, post/colonialism and diaspora; travel writing; race and performance.

Dr Emma Whipday (Lecturer in Renaissance Literature) - Family, gender, and power on the early modern stage, and in early modern culture; the political significance of household dynamics; the generic expectations that shape texts; and the interplay between performers, playing spaces and audiences on the early modern stage and street.

Professor Anne Whitehead (Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature) - Modern and contemporary fiction; literatures of war, conflict and resolution; trauma and memory studies; care, empathy and literature; medical humanities.

Dr Tara Bergin (Senior Lecturer in Writing Poetry) - The practice of poetic translation and methods of creativity.

Dr Zoe Cooper (Lecturer in Creative Writing) - Playwriting.

Dr Tina Gharavi (Senior Lecturer in Digital Media) - Experimental documentary practice; screenwriting; community.

Professor Bill Herbert (Professor of Creative Writing) - Creative writing theory and practice; poetry, poetics and criticism; Scottish poetry; poetry translation; libretto.

Dr Lars Iyer (Reader in Creative Writing) - Creative writing theory and practice (prose); literary and critical theory; the philosophy of literature; aesthetics (especially music); continental philosophy from the nineteenth century to the present (especially Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Phenomenology, Heidegger, Bataille, Blanchot, Levinas).

Professor Sinead Morrissey (Professor of Creative Writing) - Contemporary poetics; ideas relating to voice, history, visual media (photography and early cinema) and politics, with a particular interest in Russia and the Soviet Experiment (1917-1991).

Professor Alex Pheby (Professor of Creative Writing) - Contemporary fiction; creative writing; critical theory.

Professor Jacob Polley (Professor of Creative Writing) - Contemporary British poetry; contemporary fiction and non-fiction; collaboration.

Professor Preti Taneja (Professor of World Literature and Creative Writing) - Creative non-fiction; form, intertextuality and intersectionality; race, decolonisation, culture and literature; world literature; modern and contemporary prison writing; global modernisms; JM Coetzee; Shakespeare and Human Rights.