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Academic Staff
Professor Pascale Aebischer Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Performance Studies Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Niall Allsopp Early modern literature. English Civil War. Political and religious ideas. Marvell, Milton, Hobbes, Cavendish, Restoration Drama. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Jason Baskin Modern and contemporary literature (especially from 1945 to the present); critical theory; American literature and culture; contemporary global literature and culture; phenomenology and philosophies of embodiment; cultural geography and critical urban studies Penryn Campus, Cornwall
Dr Emily Bernhard Jackson 19th-century literature (Romantic and Victorian); Lord Byron; literature and medicine; the embodied writer; composition and rhetoric Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr John Bolin Theory of the novel; literature and emotion; literature and ethics; the idea of the literary; Postcolonial and 20th-century American literature Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Andy Brown Contemporary poetry; medical humanities; emergence theory and critical realism; ecopoetics Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Chris Campbell Senior Lecturer in Global Literatures Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Beci Carver Lecturer in 20th Century and/or 21st Century Literature Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr John Clarke Creative writing: poetry and prose non-fiction; contemporary and Modernist poetry; text in participatory and public art situations; poetry and science; the poetry of rubbish, ecology and place; creative writing and the visual arts. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Joseph Crawford British Romanticism, especially William Blake; Gothic fiction; the history of popular fiction; literature and politics in the long 18th century; occultism and conspiracy theory; the supernatural in literature Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Nadeen Dakkak Lecturer in world and postcolonial literatures Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Karen Edwards John Milton; early modern literature and science; Bible and literature Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Jo Esra Lecturer in Early Modern Literature (E&S) Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Chris Ewers Lecturer in Eighteenth Century Literature Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Michael Flexer Lecturer Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Joanna Freer Lecturer in American & Postcolonial Literature Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Jana Funke Late 19th- and early 20th-century literature; history of sexuality; sexual science; medical humanities; reception and historiography; queer theory and sexuality studies Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Regenia Gagnier Victorian and modern Britain; geopolitics of language and literature migration; political economy and political languages; digital humanities; literary and social theory; sex, gender and sexuality; interdisciplinary studies, esp. science and technology; women in the professions Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Felicity Gee International modernisms; modernist and avant-garde film; Surrealism; cinematic magic realism; critical theory; museology and film exhibition; collage; Japanese film; 20th-century Japanese literature Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Gabriella Giannachi Performance, art and new media; virtual, augmented, and mixed reality; performance and new media documentation, exhibition and preservation; digital heritage; 21st century museums Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Marion Gibson Magic and witchcraft in literature; British paganism; identity politics Penryn Campus, Cornwall
Professor Vesna Goldsworthy Professor in Creative Writing Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Jason Hall Poetry and poetics; Victorian literature and culture; 19th-century science and technology Penryn Campus, Cornwall
Professor Daisy Hay 18th- and 19th-century literature; relationship between literature, history and politics in 19th-century Britain; public/private selves in Romantic and post-Romantic literature; life-writing; histories of the archive; women’s writing and feminist biography Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Felicity Henderson Early-modern literature; manuscript studies; science; satire; intellectual history; translation; collections and material culture. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Kate Hext Aestheticism and the Decadent Movement; Queer Modernisms; Oscar Wilde; film adaptation; classic Hollywood; gender and sexuality; philosophy and literature Penryn Campus, Cornwall
Dr Naomi Howell 12th-century romance; tombs and memorials in literature; temporality Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Aiysha Jahan Lecturer (E&S) Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Eddie Jones Medieval mystics; hermits and anchorites; late-medieval religious writing Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Nick Kaye Performance; post-war experimental arts; visual culture Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr James Kelly Romanticism; Gothic fiction; Irish and Scottish literature; rhetoric and oratory. Penryn Campus, Cornwall
Professor Tim Kendall Poetry and poetics; war writing (esp. WW1); archives Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Elliot Kendall Late medieval and early Tudor; aristocratic politics; exchange theory Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Kirsty Martin Literature and emotion; Modernism; happiness and the novel Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Nicholas McDowell Early-modern literature; literature and politics; literature and religion Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Andrew McRae Renaissance literature; literature and politics; literature and the environment Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Ellen McWilliams Contemporary women's fiction; the Bildungsroman; Irish, American, and Canadian literature; writing and diasporic identity Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Kate Montague Lecturer in American & Postcolonial Literature Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Sinéad Moynihan 20th-century literature; American literature; Irish literature; race; transnationalism Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Ayesha Mukherjee Early-modern British literature and culture; famine; dearth; ecology; environment; Mughal India. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Sam North Writing technique; pedagogy; modern novel; plot Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Wendy O'Shea-Meddour Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Joanne Parker Victorian Medievalism, especially Anglo-Saxonism; the historical novel; children's literature - particularly historical fiction for children, and the school story; national identities and myths; the relationships between place, memory, and identity; Victoriana. Penryn Campus, Cornwall
Dr David Parry Lecturer (E&S) Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Nazneen Pathak Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Vike Martina Plock Head of Department; Literary modernism; medicine; James Joyce; interwar women's writing; consumer culture; fashion Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor John Plunkett Victorian literature; print media; popular visual culture and entertainment Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Natalie Pollard Contemporary literature and theory; inter-artistic practices; experimental poetry and poetics; visual cultures; global and trans-local literary studies; creative non-fiction; anglophone modernisms; fugitive and decolonial pedagogy; environmental humanities; multidisciplinarity Penryn Campus, Cornwall
Professor Henry Power 18th century; satire; novel (esp. Henry Fielding); classical reception; landscape Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Jane Poyner 20th-century and contemporary South African literature; postcolonial literature and theory Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Chloe Preedy Early modern drama; theatrical space; Christopher Marlowe; religious polemic; Machiavelli; early modern poetry and prose Penryn Campus, Cornwall
Dr Davina Quinlivan Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Simon Rennie 19th-century poetry; Chartist, radical, and working-class Victorian poetry; poetry and politics; poetic form and function Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Marc Ricard Lecturer in English Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Angelique Richardson Victorian Studies; literature and science, including Darwin, Eliot, Hardy, the New Woman, and Wells; medical humanities; evolutionary biology; sex and gender Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Peter Riley Lecturer in American Literature Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Andrew Rudd 18th-century and Romantic period literature; Romantic Orientalism; publishing and print culture; poetry of Robert Bloomfield Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Laura Salisbury Literary modernism; medical humanities; contemporary fiction; critical neuroscience; critical theory; poststructuralism; ethics; affect. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Philip Schwyzer Shakespeare; memory; material culture; late medieval to early modern Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Ben Smith Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Rob Magnuson Smith Contemporary fiction; graveyards, memorials and epitaphs; dark comedy; literature in translation; innovations in narrative voice Penryn Campus, Cornwall
Dr Victoria Sparey Early modern literature; Shakespeare and his contemporaries; the body; life-cycles; identity; gender; medical discourses and popular engagement Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Mark Steven Critical theory; political economy; poetry and poetics; modern literature and cinema; social movements; revolutionary and militant imaginaries; the end of capitalism. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Christopher Stokes Romantic poetry; literary theory; religion and literature; history of the self; history of the body Penryn Campus, Cornwall
Dr Naya Tsentourou Lecturer in English; the early modern body and prayer; Shakespeare; Milton; devotional writing; history of emotions; affect; breath Penryn Campus, Cornwall
Dr Rob Turner American literature; postmodernism; the epic; (in)authenticity; African American utopian and speculative fiction; the poetics of hip-hop Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Corinna Wagner Medical humanities; the body and visual culture; gothic literature Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Kate Wallis African literature and publishing; Black British publishing; print and digital cultures; global literary networks; literary festivals Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Ellen Wiles Lecturer in Creative Writing (E&R) Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Paul Williams Comics and graphic novels; race and ethnicity; post-apocalyptic fictions Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Richard Willis Lecturer in English Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr D-M Withers Lecturer in Publishing Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Amina Yaqin Associate Professor in World Literatures and Publishing Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Paul Young Victorian literature and culture; 19th-century globalization and imperialism; cultural theory Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Patricia Zakreski Art, aesthetics and design history; Victorian literature and culture; women and work Streatham Campus, Exeter
Research Staff
Chloë Edwards Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Karen Gray Postdoctoral Research Associate Streatham Campus, Exeter
Miss Becky Rae Graduate Research Assistant Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Arthur Rose Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Caroline Spearing Postdoctoral Research Fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Elizabeth Williamson Digital humanities; early modern literature, especially drama; epistolary culture, diplomatic and political letters and early modern archives; textual scholarship, book history and digital publication Streatham Campus, Exeter
Royal Literary Fund Fellows
Michael Bird Royal Literary Fund Fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Rory MacLean Royal Literary Fund Fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Emeritus Professors
Professor Gerald Maclean Emeritus Professor Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Jane Spencer Emeritus Professor Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Helen Taylor Emeritus Professor Streatham Campus, Exeter
Honorary University Fellows
Dr Sarah-Jayne Ainsworth Honorary Associate Research Fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Ms Rebecca Alexander Honorary Research Fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Anne Anderson Honorary Associate Professor Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Virginia Baily Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr William Barrett Honorary Associate Research Fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Sophie Battell Honorary Research Fellow Penryn Campus, Cornwall
Dr Isabelle Cosgrave Honorary Associate Research Fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Richard Crangle Honoaray Associate Research Fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Brian Edgar Honorary Research Fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Peter Faulkner Honorary University Fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Sally Flint Honorary Research Fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Mr Anthony Fothergill Honorary University Fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr James Green Honorary Research Fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Nick Groom Honorary Professor Streatham Campus, Exeter
Seth Honnor Honorary University Fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Mr Mark Kermode Honorary Professor Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Bob Lawson-Peebles Honorary University Fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Song Hwee Lim Honorary Professor Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dame Hilary Mantel Honorary Professor Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Margaret Markwick Honorary University Fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Inna Matyushina Honorary University Fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Mr Simon Mayo Honorary Professor Streatham Campus, Exeter
Mr Robert McCrum Honorary Professor Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Judith Morgane Honorary Research Fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Alan Munton Honorary University Fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Maya Parmar Honorary Research Fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Deborah Robinson Honorary Research Fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Rick Rylance Honorary Research Fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Lesa Scholl Honorary Research Fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Suzanne Steele Honorary Research Fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Thomas Vozar Honorary Research Fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Ms Gaby Wijers Honorary University Fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr John Withrington Honorary Research Fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Margaret Yoon Honorary Research Fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professional services staff
Susan Leedham Department manager Streatham Campus, Exeter