People
Contact details of staff in the English Department
Academic staff
| Name | Position | PhD Research interests of staff available for supervision |
|---|---|---|
| Bas Aarts | Professor of English Linguistics; Director of the Survey of English Usage | English Linguistics, especially syntax and corpus linguistics. |
| Kathryn Allan | Associate Professor in the History of English; English Linguistics | Lexical change and innovation; lexical semantics; semantic change; historical linguistics of English; lexicology; metaphor and metonymy; borrowing into English |
| David Anderson | Lecturer in English Literature | david.anderson@ucl.ac.uk |
| Juliette Atkinson | Professor of English; nineteenth-century literature | Nineteenth-century fiction (British, French, American; and especially George Eliot); life-writing (autobiography, biography, diaries, letters, travel writing); book history |
| Scarlett Baron | Associate Professor of English; twentieth-century literature | James Joyce; Virginia Woolf; Rachel Cusk; Ben Lerner; Representations of the Self in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature; Autofiction |
| Matthew Beaumont | Professor of English; nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature | Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature, especially the novel; the fin de siècle; the avant-garde; cities in literary history, especially London; the night; walking; Marxist literary theory. |
| Phoebe Braithwaite | British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in English | phoebe.braithwaite.21@ucl.ac.uk |
| Stella Bruzzi | Executive Dean, Faculty of Arts and Humanities: Professor of Film | Film and Television Studies, in particular: Documentary; Representations of History; The law in cinema and media; Cinema and gender identities; Costume, fashion and cinema; Performance; Design and interiors in film |
| Lara Choksey | Lecturer in Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures in English after 1800 | Science and literature; diasporic poetics; nationalism and internationalism since 1800; speculative fiction; interdisciplinary approaches to imperialism in the longue durée. |
| Marilyn Corrie | Lecturer in English Medieval literature | Middle English literature; Old French literature, including Anglo-Norman; medieval authors’ engagements with classical literature, and with Christian Scripture and exegesis |
| Gregory Dart | Professor of English; Romantic Period Literature | Hazlitt, Lamb, the nineteenth-century city, the essay form, crime fiction, opera |
| Paul Davis | Professor of English; Restoration and eighteenth-century literature | George Herbert, Milton, Marvell, Aphra Behn, Rochester, Dryden, Addison, Pope; Classicism and Classical Receptions; court culture in the Restoration; eighteenth-century periodicals; politeness and impoliteness; book history and textual editing; manuscript studies and attribution scholarship |
| Andrew Dean | Lecturer in Literature in English since 1960 | 20th century Jewish writing (mainly) in English; Comic writing in the 20th century; Psychoanalysis in the US and UK, especially its institutional life; Technology and literary thought; Australian, NZ, and South African literature. |
| Dennis Duncan | Associate Professor in English; 1900-1950 | Any aspect of book history or publishing history, and archival work on the Oulipo or ‘Pataphysics. |
| Karen Dwyer | Lecturer in English grammar and research methodology | k.dwyer@ucl.ac.uk |
| Amy Faulkner | Lecturer in Old and Middle English literature | Any aspect of Old English language and literature |
| Mark Ford | Professor of English; nineteenth-, twentieth-and twenty-first century British, American, and French literature (Head of Department) | Thomas Hardy, T.S. Eliot, and the poetry of the New York School. Proposals made in any area of poetry in English from 1830 to the present day will also be considered. |
| Linda Freedman | Professor in English; nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature (Department Tutor) | Nineteenth-century literature (British and American, especially topics concerning religion, visual arts, poetry); Twentieth-Century American Counterculture; Emily Dickinson; William Blake |
| 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 | h.hackett@ucl.ac.uk |
| Philip Horne | Professor of English; Henry James; Victorian literature; modern literature; film | Henry James; Charles Dickens; Geoffrey Hill; British and American cinema, especially Hitchcock, Scorsese, Thorold Dickinson, Hollywood Cinema to c.1980. |
| Susan Irvine | Quain Professor of English Language and Literature; Old English literature and language |
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| Natalie Jones | Lecturer in Middle English literature | Middle English literature, particularly devotional and religious writings; devotional practice in the later medieval period; religious iconography and the relationship between text and image in the medieval period; medieval literature and its patristic and scriptural sources |
| Julia Jordan | Associate Professor of English; modern and contemporary literature | Twentieth-century literature, especially nature writing and ecocriticism; the novel; theories of the pastoral; avant garde and experimental forms; late modernism and the mid-century period |
| Eric Langley | Associate Professor in English; Shakespeare and Renaissance literature | Shakespeare and Renaissance literature more broadly, especially in relation to the history of ideas, the history of philosophy, and the history of medicine. Historicist and theoretical approaches to Renaissance texts. |
| Jacob Lloyd | Lecturer in English | jacob.lloyd@ucl.ac.uk |
| Beth Malory | Lecturer in English Linguistics | Health communication; reproductive health and justice; language and gender; participatory methods; corpus linguistics; prescriptivism; language change |
| John Mullan | Lord Northcliffe Chair of Modern English Literature | Eighteenth-century literature; Literature of the Romantic period; Jane Austen; Charles Dickens. |
| Richard North | Professor of English; heroic and heathen themes in Old English and Old Icelandic literature, especially Beowulf and tenth-century skaldic poetry | Old English poetry, including Beowulf and the Exeter Book elegies and riddles, Old English prose; the works of Chaucer and the Gawain poet and Arthurian romances; Old Norse Eddic and Skaldic poetry and the Legendary and Family Sagas of medieval Iceland |
| Anthony Ossa-Richardson | Associate Professor in English; Early Modern Literature (Graduate Tutor) | Renaissance literature and culture, the history of ideas (Renaissance to twentieth century), including in philosophy, science, literary criticism, philology, historiography |
| Charlotte Roberts | Associate Professor in English; 1700-1830 | Eighteenth-Century literature; Romantic literature; historiography; prose; the novel |
| Alison Shell | Professor of English; Renaissance literature and Shakespeare; literature and religion from the Reformation to the present day | Shakespeare and early modern drama; Donne and early modern religious verse; Catholic writing after the Reformation; Literature and Christianity from the Reformation to the present day. |
| Chris Stamatakis | Associate Professor in English; Renaissance literature | Early modern poetics; literary creativity; intertextuality; style; manuscript culture and book history; classical reception; literature and mathematics; soundscapes; metre, verse form, artificial versification. |
| Hugh Stevens | Senior Lecturer in English; Nineteenth- and twentieth-century English and American literature; gay and lesbian writing | Any aspect of Nineteenth- and twentieth-century English and American Literature; gay and lesbian writing |
| Peter Swaab | Professor of English; Romantics; Shakespeare; modern poetry | Sylvia Townsend Warner; Wordsworth; Sara Coleridge; Edward Lear; Thom Gunn; nonsense writing; utopianism; queer literature. |
| Sean Wallis | Principal Research Fellow, Survey of English Usage | Corpus Linguistics, Research Methodology, Statistics, AI and Computing. |
| Guyanne Wilson | Quirk Lecturer in English Linguistics | World Englishes (development, variation, change); language attitudes and ideologies; language in diaspora communities; corpus linguistics; and ecolinguistics. |
| Christine (Xine) Yao | Associate Professor of English; American Literature to 1900 | Nineteenth-century American literature, feminist, queer, and trans of colour critique, affect studies, comparative racialization. |
Administrative staff
| Name | Position | Email address |
|---|---|---|
| Stephen Cadywold | Departmental Manager Contact for: research, staffing, finance, affiliate and visiting academics. | s.cadywold@ucl.ac.uk |
| Jose Delgado | Contact for admissions for undergraduate, postgraduate taught and research, examinations, postgraduate funding, current postgraduate research students. | jose.delgado@ucl.ac.uk |
| Jessica Green | Teaching and Learning Administrator Contact for: current undergraduate students. | jessica.green@ucl.ac.uk |
| Carol Bowen | Administrative Assistant Contact for: general enquiries, alumni. | c.bowen@ucl.ac.uk |
| Karthik Sundaram | Student Adviser Contact for first year undergraduate student support and wellbeing | k.sundaram@ucl.ac.uk |
Emeritus and honorary staff
| Name | Position | |
|---|---|---|
| Professor Rosemary Ashton | Emeritus Quain Professor of English Language and Literature Honorary Fellow of UCL | r.ashton@ucl.ac.uk |
| Dr Jillian Bowie | Honorary Research Fellow | j.bowie@ucl.ac.uk |
| Dr Benjamin Dawson | Honorary Lecturer | benjamin.dawson@ucl.ac.uk |
| Dr Rachele De Felice | Honorary Lecturer | r.defelice@ucl.ac.uk |
| Professor Anthony Edwards | Honorary Professor | anthony.edwards@ucl.ac.uk |
| Dr Philip Errington | Honorary Research Fellow | p.errington@ucl.ac.uk |
| Professor Stephen Fender | Honorary Senior Research Fellow | s.fender@ucl.ac.uk |
| Dr Janet Ing Freeman | Honorary Senior Research Fellow | janet.freeman@ucl.ac.uk |
| Karen Hearn | Honorary Professor | k.hearn@ucl.ac.uk |
| Dr Robert Ilson | Honorary Research Fellow | r.ilson@ucl.ac.uk |
| Dr Gašper Jakovac | Honorary Research Fellow | g.jakovac@ucl.ac.uk |
| Dr Natalie Koble | Honorary Associate Professor | n.koble@ucl.ac.uk |
| Professor Colin Maccabe | Honorary Professor | |
| Dr Charlotte Mitchell | Honorary Associate Professor | c.mitchell@ucl.ac.uk |
| Dr Tetiana Ostapchuk | Honorary Senior Research Fellow | t.ostapchuk@ucl.ac.uk |
| Professor Clifford Oswick | Honorary Professor | |
| Dr Kendra Packham | Honorary Research Fellow | k.packham@ucl.ac.uk |
| Professor Neil Rennie | Emeritus Professor of English | n.rennie@ucl.ac.uk |
| Dr Nick Shepley | Honorary Lecturer | n.shepley@ucl.ac.uk |
| Professor Robin Simon | Honorary Professor of Practice Editor of the British Art Journal | r.simon@ucl.ac.uk |
| Professor Barnett Sokol | Honorary Senior Research Fellow | b.sokol@ucl.ac.uk |
| Dr Patrick Stiles | Honorary Senior Research Fellow | p.stiles@ucl.ac.uk |
| Professor John Sutherland | Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature Honorary Fellow of UCL | j.sutherland@ucl.ac.uk |
| Dr Paolo Vaciago | Honorary Senior Research Fellow | paolo.vaciago@uniroma3.it |
| Professor René Weis | Emeritus Professor of English Language and Literature | r.weis@ucl.ac.uk |