Bas Aarts
Professor of English Linguistics; Director of the Survey of English Usage
Descriptive linguistics; syntax; language theory, categorisation and gradience in the grammar of English; current change

Survey of English Usage staff

Kathryn Allan
Lecturer in English

Rosemary Ashton
Quain Professor of English Language and Literature

Juliette Atkinson
British Academy Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century literature; comparative literature; life-writing

Scarlett Baron
Lecturer in English

Matthew Beaumont
Senior Lecturer
Nineteenth and early twentieth-century literature

Michael Bintley
Lecturer in English

Kasia Boddy
Senior Lecturer
Modern British and American literature

Rachel Bowlby
Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature
Realism in American, British and French literature; Virginia Woolf; psychoanalysis; the history of consumer culture

Ardis Butterfield
Professor of English and Graduate Tutor
English and French medieval literature and music; Chaucer and the continent; manuscript studies

Marilyn Corrie
Lecturer in English
Medieval literature, manuscripts and vernacular culture

Jane Darcy
British Academy Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Gregory Dart
Senior Lecturer in English
Hazlitt, Lamb, the nineteenth-century city, the essay form, crime fiction, opera

Paul Davis
Reader in English
Restoration and eighteenth-century literature

Mark Ford
Professor of English
Nineteenth and twentieth-century English and American literature

Lee Grieveson
Reader in Film Studies; Director of the Graduate Programme in Film Studies (in UCL Film Studies, part of UCL's Centre for Intercultural Studies)

Helen Hackett
Professor of English
Renaissance literature; Shakespeare; Elizabeth I in literature; Renaissance women writers; Renaissance prose fiction; early modern Catholic writing; afterlives of Shakespeare and Renaissance literature.

Philip Horne
Professor of English
Henry James; Victorian literature; modern literature; film

Susan Irvine
Professor of English
Old and Middle English literature and language; history of the language

Chris Laoutaris
Lecturer in English
Shakespeare; Renaissance literature; women's history; early modern material culture

Charlotte Mitchell
Senior Lecturer in English
Eighteenth and nineteenth-century poetry and fiction

John Mullan
Professor of English and Head of Department
Eighteenth-century literature; Romantic period

Richard North
Professor of English
Heroic and heathen themes in Old English and Old Icelandic literature, especially Beowulf and tenth-century skaldic poetry

Anindya Raychaudhuri
British Academy Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Contemporary Literature and Cultural Studies; Postcolonial theory; Partition Studies; Memory; Spanish Civil War

Neil Rennie
Reader in English
Modern English literature; American literature

Michael Sayeau
Lecturer in English
Late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century literature

Alison Shell
Lecturer in English

Nick Shepley
Honorary Research Associate and Part-time Lecturer in English
Twentieth-century literature; Henry Green; One-day novels

Chris Stamatakis
Lecturer in English

Hugh Stevens
Senior Lecturer in English and Department Tutor
Nineteenth and twentieth-century English and American literature; gay and lesbian writing

Peter Swaab
Reader in English
Romantics; Shakespeare; modern poetry

René Weis
Professor of English
Shakespeare and Renaissance literature; modern literature and drama
René Weis will be on Leverhulme Research Leave from October 2010 to 2013

Henry Woudhuysen
Professor of English
Sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth-century literature; palaeography; bibliography

TEACHING ASSISTANTS

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Mercedes Aguirre
William Bowers
Ruth Cheadle
Rona Cran (Fourth Year Fellow)
Hannah Crummé
Louis Leslie
Lucy Powell
Alexander Preston
Kumiko Toda
Tom Ue
Mary Wellesley
Hazel Wilkinson

ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

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Stephen Cadywold (Department Administrator)
Joe Taylor (Department Admissions Officer)
Carol Bowen (Department Administrative Assistant)
Anita Garfoot (Deputy Department Administrator; Departmental Equal Opportunities Liaison Officer)
Christine Bowles (Administrator, Survey of English Usage)
Berry Chevasco (Director of Alumni Relations)

HONORARY PROFESSORS

John Russell Brown
Sixteenth and seventeenth century literature, particularly Shakespeare; theatre performance and production

Katherine Duncan-Jones
Elizabethan literature, history and biography, especially with reference to original texts and sources in manuscript and early editions

Stephen Fender
American Studies

Janet Ing Freeman
Bibliography and book history; literary forgery; nineteenth-century scholars and antiquaries; London

Kevin Jackson
Writer and broadcaster on film, photography and modern art; film-maker

Robin Simon FSA
Editor 'The British Art Journal'; history of art particularly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; Hogarth

Gerard Kilroy
Sixteenth and seventeenth century literature, particularly in manuscript; Sir John Harington and Edmund Campion.