Logo
School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics
Staff Profile
Dr Lauren Ackerman
Research Associate and LingLab Manager
Emerita Professor Linda Anderson
Professor of Modern English and American Literature
Professor James Annesley
Associate Dean, 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
Dr Zoe Cooper
Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing
Professor Karen Corrigan
Director of Research in Linguistics
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 Ella Dzelzainis
Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth Century Literature
Professor Helen Freshwater
Professor of Theatre and Performance
Dr Tina Gharavi
Reader in English: Screenwriting & Film
Emeritus Professor Desmond Graham
Emeritus Professor
Dr Rosalind Haslett
Senior Lecturer
Emeritus Professor Anders Holmberg
Emeritus Professor, FBA, MAE
Dr Joseph Hone
Reader in Literature and Book History
Professor Lars Iyer
Professor of Creative Writing
Dr Jacob Jewusiak
Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature
Dr Laura Kirkley
Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Dr Kirsten MacLeod
Reader in Modernist Print Culture
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 Alex Niven
Lecturer in English Literature
Dr Jennifer Orr
Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth Century Literature
Dr Kendra Packham
Visiting Fellow
Dr Natalia Pavlovskaya
Associate Lecturer
Professor Jacob Polley
Professor of Creative Writing
Dr Geoffrey Poole
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
Professor James Procter
Prof of Modern & Contemporary Lit
Dr Jon Quayle
Lecturer in Romantic Literature
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
Dr Leanne Stokoe
Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Dr Fionnghuala Sweeney
Reader in American and Black Atlantic Literatures
Professor Preti Taneja
Professor of World Literature and Creative Writing, FRSL
Dr Rory Turnbull
Senior Lecturer
Dr William van der Wurff
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
Emeritus Professor Diana Whaley
Professor of Early Medieval Studies (Emerita)
Dr Emma Whipday
Senior Lecturer
Dr Rebecca Woods
Senior Lecturer in Language and Cognition
Emeritus Professor Terry Wright
Emeritus Professor
Professor Jo Robinson
Interim PVC of Humanities & Social Sci
Dr Tamar Lindesay
Visiting Lecturer
Dr Chloe Ashbridge
Lecturer in Modern & Contemporary Literature
Emeritus Professor Sean O'Brien
Professor of Creative Writing
Professor Alex Pheby
Head of Creative Writing
Dr Barbara Gribling
Visiting Researcher
Dr Niamh Kelly
Lecturer in Phonetics and Phonology
Dr Gabriel Martinez Vera
Lecturer in Pragmatics
Dr Emma Nguyen
Lecturer in Child Language Aquisition
Dr Mary Robinson
Research Associate Language Variation
Dr Laura Wright
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Dr Marco Medugno
Associate Lecturer
Andrew Thompson
Lecturer in Creative Writing
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 Rachel Hewitt
Visiting Fellow
Dr Dominic Bridge
Research Associate
Dr Caoimhe Whelan
Lecturer in Medieval Literature
Dr Giulia Mazzola
Research Associate in Linguistics
Dr Emily Stevenson
Lecturer in Early Modern Literature
Dr Tom Harrison
Lecturer in Early Modern Drama