Academic staff and their research interests

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

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Kathryn Allan
Lecturer in English

Rosemary Ashton
Quain Professor of English Language and Literature; Joint Principal Investigator, Bloomsbury Project
Literature and literary theory of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Juliette Atkinson
British Academy Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Matthew Beaumont
Senior Lecturer
Nineteenth and early twentieth-century literature

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
English and French medieval literature and music; Chaucer and the continent; manuscript studies

Deborah Colville (e-mail)
Research Associate, Bloomsbury Project

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

Gregory Dart
Senior Lecturer in English
Rousseau; the French Revolution; Romanticism and Utilitarianism

Paul Davis
Reader in English
Restoration and eighteenth-century literature

Richard Farmer
(Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Film Studies)

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
Reader in English
Renaissance literature; Shakespeare; Elizabeth I in literature; Renaissance women writers; Renaissance prose fiction.

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

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

Julia Jordan
Teaching Fellow

Leya Landau
Teaching Fellow

Eric Langley
Lecturer in English

Tim Langley
Senior Lecturer in English
Late sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth-century literature and thought

Chris Laoutaris
British Academy Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
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 Graduate Tutor
Eighteenth-century literature; Romantic period

Richard North
Professor of English
Heroic and Pagan themes in Old English literature

Neil Rennie
Reader in English
Modern English literature; American literature

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

Hugh Stevens
Senior Lecturer in English
Nineteenth and twentieth-century English and American literature

Laszlo Strausz
Teaching Fellow in Film Studies

Peter Swaab
Reader in English
Romantics; Shakespeare; modern poetry

Rene Weis
Professor of English
Shakespeare and Renaissance literature; modern literature and drama

Sarah Wintle
Senior Lecturer in English and Department Tutor
Sixteenth and seventeenth-century literature; modern literature

Sarah Wood
Lecturer in English
Middle English literature and late medieval manuscripts

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

TEACHING ASSISTANTS

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Graeme Abernethy
Michael Bintley
Rona Cran
Miranda El-Rayess Email address to follow
Matthew Ingleby
Christine Lai
Michael McCluskey
Nick Shepley
Daniel Smith
Anna Van Lopik

ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

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Kathryn Metzenthin(Department Administrator)
Suzanne Lambert (Department Admissions Officer)
Anita Garfoot (Deputy Department Administrator)
Clare Szembek (Department Administrative Assistant)
Christine Bowles (Administrator, Survey of English Usage)
Berry Chevasco (Director of Alumni Relations)

HONORARY VISITING 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

John Gross
Former editor of the Times Literary Supplement; editor of anthologies of literature for the Oxford University Press; literary journalism

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.