Our staff
- Head of Department
Helen Fulton- Deputy Head
Stephen Minta
With over forty members of staff, we are one of the largest and most active English departments in the country.
Among our staff are a number from other countries, contributing to the international quality of the Department. Nine faculty members are from the USA, and other countries represented are Canada, Italy, Australia, Ireland, and South Africa.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | Part-time tutors
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Langwith College L/A/205
Tel: 01904 323361
derek.attridge@york.ac.uk
part-time
Derek Attridge
BA (Natal), MA, PhD (Cantab), FBA
Professor
Derek Attridge was educated in South Africa and England, and has taught in England, Scotland, France, and the U.S.A. Among his research interests are South African literature, Joyce, deconstruction and literary theory, and the performance of poetry.
Langwith College L/A/102
Tel: 01904 323354
david.attwell@york.ac.uk
David Attwell
BA (Natal), MA (Cape Town), PhD (Texas)
Professor
David Attwell joined the Department in January 2006 as Professor of Modern Literature from his role as Head of English at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He has published widely in the fields of anglophone African literature, South African literature, and postcolonial studies. His most well-known work is on J.M. Coetzee.
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King's Manor K/191
Tel: 01904 323912
henry.bainton@york.ac.uk
Henry Bainton
BA (Oxford), MA (York), Phd (York)
Lecturer
Henry Bainton's research focuses on the Latin and French literature of the High Middle Ages, and on historical writing in particular. He is especially interested in the interface between literary culture and documentary culture, and in the role of performance across a wide range of textual practices.
Kings Manor K/376C
Tel: 01904 324981
john.barrell@york.ac.uk
part-time
John Barrell
MA (Cantab), PhD (Essex), FBA
Professor
John Barrell studied at Cambridge and Essex, and taught at Essex, Cambridge and Sussex before coming to York in 1993. He has published widely on the literature, history and art of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Britain, focusing on language, landscape, law, empire, theories of society and progress, and the theory of painting.
Alexander Beaumont
Langwith College L/A/127
Tel: 01904 323331
alex.beaumont@york.ac.uk Autumn 2011 and Spring and Summer 2012
BA (Exeter) MA, PhD (York)
Teaching Fellow
Alexander Beaumont has research interests in post-war British literature, film and television; Thatcherism and the politics of culture; neoliberalism, political theory and the contemporary novel; and the recent history of the British Left.
Langwith College L/A/207
Tel: 01904 324216
anna.bernard@york.ac.uk
Anna Bernard
BA (UC Berkeley), PhD (Cantab)
Lecturer
Anna Bernard came to York in 2007 from the University of Cambridge, where she completed her PhD and taught in the faculties of English and Education. Her research interests include anti-colonial and postcolonial literature and theory, nationalism and the novel, and modern and contemporary literatures from the Middle East and South Asia.
J.A. Berthoud
BA (Witwatersrand)
Emeritus Professor
J.A. Berthoud originally specialized in English-French literary relations and in South African writing. He has also a long-standing interest in the philosophy of criticism. More recently, he has researched in the literature of the Renaissance and of Early Modernism.
Jacques died on 29 October 2011 after a long struggle with leukaemia. The Department is organising a memorial event on Satuday 19 May to celebrate his remarkable life and gifts.
Langwith College L/A/211
Tel: 01904 324717
john.bowen@york.ac.uk
John Bowen
MA (Cantab), PhD (Birmingham)
Professor
John Bowen joined the Department in 2005 from Keele University, where he was Professor of Modern English Literature. His main research area is nineteenth-century fiction, in particular the work of Dickens, but he has also written on modern poetry and fiction, as well as essays on literary theory.
Tel: 01904 659784
SAJBradley@aol.com
S.A.J. Bradley
MA (Oxon), FSA
Emeritus Professor
After retirement from teaching Anglo-Saxon at York, Sid Bradley has continued as co-editor of the Copenhagen journal Grundtvig-Studier, published a book on the 19th-century Danish poet, historian and theologian N. F. S. Grundtvig and articles on Grundtvig’s reception of Anglo-Saxondom, and lectured on this subject, most recently in Denmark, America and Ireland.
Tel: 01904 324572
jnb4@york.ac.uk
part-time
Jonathan Brockbank
MA, MLitt (Cantab)
Lecturer
Jonathan Brockbank has worked short-term contracts for the Department since 1985, lecturing and teaching on various modules including Approaches to Literature, Shakespeare and His Contemporaries, Romantics, Seventeenth Century & Victorians.
Langwith College L/D/101B
Tel: 01904 323356
trev.broughton@york.ac.uk
part-time
Trev Broughton
BA, DPhil (York)
Senior Lecturer
Trev Broughton joined the department from the Centre for Women's Studies, of which she has been a member for nearly twenty years. Her current research interests include letters as a genre, British-Indian Life Writing in the 19th Century, and the construction of lone fatherhood in Victorian culture.
Langwith College L/D/102A
Tel: 01904 323340
piers.brown@york.ac.uk Autumn 2011 and Spring 2012
Piers Brown
BA (Kent), BA (Simon Fraser), PhD (Toronto)
Teaching Fellow
Piers Brown studied for his PhD at the University of Toronto and originally came to York as a SSHRC post-doctoral fellow. He has research interests in the history of the book, early modern science, and renaissance poetics, especially theories of metaphor and analogy.
Langwith College L/A/203
Tel: 01904 324719
judith.buchanan@york.ac.uk
Judith Buchanan
BA (Bristol), DPhil (Oxon)
Professor
Judith Buchanan came to York in 2000 to set up film teaching here. Her research interests are currently concentrated on silent cinema's appropriation of painterly 'quotations', the operations and meanings of the body in the cinema and the ways in which cinema and literature have reflected and refracted each other's mechanisms, processes and cultural charge.
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Langwith College L/A/103
Tel: 01904 323360
matt.campbell@york.ac.uk
Matthew Campbell
BA (Dublin), PhD (Cambridge)
Professor
Matthew Campbell writes mainly about poetry from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present day. He taught Victorian, Modern and Irish literature at Sheffield University before coming to York in 2011. He has just finished a book about nineteenth-century poetry from and about Ireland. Current projects include a history of the last two centuries of Irish poetry, and ongoing interests in poetry and music.
King's Manor K/181
Tel: 01904 32 4975
michele.campopiano@york.ac.uk
Michele Campopiano
MA (U. di Pisa; SNS Pisa), PhD (SNS Pisa)
Lecturer
Michele Campopiano's interests include: editing of medieval Latin texts, medieval historiography and geography, cultures and literatures of medieval Italy, Franciscan cultural traditions and relationships between Europe and the Middle East in the Middle Ages. He is a member of the research team 'La création d'un mythe d'Alexandre le Grand dans les littératures européennes (XIe siècle - début XVIe siècle)'.
Langwith College L/A/209
Tel: 01904 323348
victoria.coulson@york.ac.uk
Victoria Coulson
MA, MPhil, PhD (Cantab)
Lecturer
Victoria Coulson came to York from a Research Fellowship at Selwyn College, Cambridge. Her interests lie in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American and British literature, in particular narrative representation, and in the material culture of the period.
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Langwith College
Tel: 01904 32 3357
tania.demetriou@york.ac.uk
Tania Demetriou
Lecturer
Tania Demetriou came to York in 2011 from a Research Fellowship at St John's College, Oxford. Her teaching and research interests include early modern literature and classical reception, Shakespeare, the history of reading and of scholarship, translation, and the epic.
jpd3@york.ac.uk
retired
Jack Donovan
BA (Boston), MA (Kansas), PhD (Birmingham)
Reader
Jack Donovan has been an assistant editor of the Keats-Shelley Review, is presently on the editorial committee of Romanticism; and has contributed to The Oxford Companion to English Literature and to The Oxford Bibliographical Guide to British Romanticism.
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Langwith College L/A/204
Tel: 01904 323342
ziad.elmarsafy@york.ac.uk
Ziad Elmarsafy
BA (Cornell), MA (Johns Hopkins), PhD (Emory)
Reader
Ziad Elmarsafy joined the Department as a Senior Lecturer in French in October 2006. He has taught at the University of California Riverside, Wellesley College, and NYU. His interests are the literatures of the Middle East and North Africa (Arabic, French, English), post-colonial literature writ large, literature and religion.
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Langwith College L/N/144 and
Kings Manor K/G81
Tel: 01904 323352/3924
helen.fulton@york.ac.uk
Helen Fulton
BA (Sydney), Dip. Celt (Oxon.), PhD (Sydney)
Professor
Head of Department
Helen Fulton is Professor of Medieval Literature in the Centre for Medieval Studies. Her main research areas are medieval literatures, Celtic studies, Arthurian literature, and critical theory. She has extensive experience of leading research projects in the UK and Australia, has over 50 publications, has convened 3 major international conferences.
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Kevin Gilmartin
BA (Oberlin College), MA, PhD (Chicago)
Honorary Visiting Professor
Kevin Gilmartin joins the Department as a regular autumn term visiting professor from the California Institute of Technology. His research interests include Romantic literature, the politics of literary culture, the history of the periodical press and of print culture, and intersections between literary expression and public activism.
Kings Manor K/G73B
Tel: 01904 324986
harriet.guest@york.ac.uk
Harriet Guest
MA, PhD (Cantab)
Professor
Harriet Guest studied at Cambridge and taught at Cambridge and University College London before coming to York. Her current research focuses on the changing roles available to British women, and particularly women writers, in the 1790s, and the eighteenth-century British presence in the South Pacific.
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Langwith College L/C/001
Tel: 01904 323343
hugh.haughton@york.ac.uk
Hugh Haughton
BA (Cantab), MA (Oxon)
Professor
Hugh Haughton works in the field of modernism, modern poetry and poetics; the literature of nonsense; letters and life-writing; and twentieth-century Irish literature. He is the author of The Poetry of Derek Mahon (OUP, 2007), the first full-scale study of a major contemporary Irish poet, as well as numerous essays on twentieth-century poetry.
Tel: 01904 323330 / 3355
nick.havely@york.ac.uk
Nicholas R. Havely
MA, BPhil (Oxon)
Emeritus Professor
Nicholas R. Havely has principal research interests in late medieval literature (especially Dante, Boccaccio and Chaucer) and in English-Italian literary relations. He has recently completed the volume on Dante for the Blackwell Guides to Literature series and is currently working on a study of Dante in the English-Speaking World, from the Fourteenth Century to the Present for which he has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship.
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Langwith College L/C/003
Tel: 01904 324571
michelle.kelly@york.ac.ukFor two years from October 2010
Michelle Kelly
BA (NUI), MA, PhD (York)
Teaching Fellow
Michelle Kelly is interested in theoretical approaches to postcolonial confession, testimony and autobiography, political transition and transformation in literature, and literature and the law, especially literature and human rights.
Langwith College L/A/106
Tel: 01904 323363
kevin.killeen@york.ac.uk
Kevin Killeen
BA, MA, PhD (London)
Lecturer
Kevin Killeen received his PhD from Birkbeck, University of London and, before coming to York, lectured at Birkbeck, the University of Reading and the University of Leeds. He has research interests in early modern science, seventeenth century historiography, sermon culture and iconoclasm in early modern England. He is membership secretary of the Society for Renaissance Studies and co-organises the Thomas Browne Seminar.
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Kings Manor K/275B
Tel: 01904 324974
emma.major@york.ac.uk
Emma Major
BA (Cantab), MA, PhD (York)
Lecturer
Emma Major studied at Queens' College, Cambridge, before doing an MA and PhD at the Department of English and Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of York. She has research interests in debates about religion, patriotism and gender 1740-1860.
Kings Manor K/184
for Board of Studies
Tel: 01904 323920
nicola.mcdonald@york.ac.uk
english-chairbos@york.ac.uk
Nicola McDonald
BA, MA (Toronto), MPhil, DPhil (Oxon)
Senior Lecturer
Nicola McDonald has research interests ranging from cannibalism to confessional discourse, from women's literacy to the post-modern middle ages. Her current research encompasses the cultural audacity of Middle English popular romance, and mulier ludens, seeking to inject some levity into our understanding of the complexity of medieval women's lives by studying the text-based social games that women played.
Langwith College L/A/206
Tel: 01904 323346
stephen.minta@york.ac.uk
S.M.J. Minta
BA (Oxon), DPhil (Sussex)
Senior Lecturer
S.M.J. Minta originally specialized in French literature of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with particular reference to the development of lyric poetry in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, and is currently working on a political biography of Byron, and has recently published a number of articles and essays on Byron and Greek politics.
Tel: 01904 323330 / 3355
adm5@york.ac.uk
A.D. Moody
MA (New Zealand and Oxon)
Emeritus Professor
A.D. Moody is currently researching Ezra Pound, in particular, and modern American and British poetry in general. He is engaged in writing a two volume critical biography of Pound and an introduction to his poetry, the first volume published by Oxford University Press in October 2007.
Jane Moody
MA, DPhil (Oxon)
Professor
Jane Moody came to York from a Research Fellowship at Cambridge University. She was promoted to a Personal Chair in 2004. Her research interests include Romantic literature, eighteenth and nineteenth-century theatre and performance, and the history and politics of cultural institutions.
Jane died on 28 October 2011 after a long illness. A day of celebration and commemoration for her life and work was held on 9 March 2012.
Kings Manor K/G82
Tel: 01904 323909
linne.mooney@york.ac.uk
Linne R. Mooney
MA, PhD (Toronto), FSA
Professor
Linne R. Mooney is our Professor of Medieval English Palaeography, and active in both the Department of English and Related Literature and the Centre for Medieval Studies, based at King's Manor. Her research focuses on the dissemination of late medieval English literature in manuscript and early print.
Langwith College L/C/006
Tel: 01904 324219
emilie.morin@york.ac.uk
Emilie Morin
Licence, Maîtrise (Université Rennes 2),
MA (University College Dublin), PhD (Queen's University Belfast)
Lecturer
Emilie Morin has research interests in modern British and Irish drama, European modernism (particularly the work of Samuel Beckett), avant-garde currents in drama, music and the visual arts, and post-war European philosophy.
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Langwith College L/C/007
Tel: 01904 324569 zoe.norridge@york.ac.ukfor three years from October 2010
Zoe Norridge
MA, MPhil (Cantab), PhD (SOAS)
Lecturer
Zoe Norridge joined the department in October 2010 from the University of Oxford, where she was a research fellow in African and Comparative Literature. Her current work focuses on memorial sites and cultural responses to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Zoe has published articles on a range of topics including community commemorations of slavery, dance and multiculturalism, Zimbabwean war narratives and Papua New Guinean literature.
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Kings Manor K/376B
Tel: 01904 324992
alison.obyrne@york.ac.uk
Alison O'Byrne
BA (Trinity), PhD (York)
Lecturer
Alison O'Byrne has research interests in the long eighteenth century, with a particular focus on debates about and representations of the city. She has written articles on the building and representation of Westminster Bridge and on pedestrianism in early nineteenth-century London. She is currently completing a book provisionally titled The Art of Walking in London: Representing the Eighteenth-Century City.
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Tel: 01904 323330 / 3355
gp8@york.ac.uk
Graham Parry
MA (Cantab), PhD (Columbia), FSA
Emeritus Professor
Graham Parry has written a number of books about the cultural history of the seventeenth century, and in recent years turned to the study of the antiquaries of early modern England. He also has strong interests in Victorian cultural life, and is active in Ruskin’s Guild of St George, the Pugin Society, and the Sydney Smith Association. In addition, he is much involved in the activities of the York Bibliographical Society.
contact c/o the Centre for Medieval Studies
Derek Pearsall
Honorary Professor
Derek Pearsall is one of the founders of York's Centre for Medieval Studies and a Professor here until 1986. He has returned to York since his retirement as Gurney Professor of English at Harvard University in the USA. He is actively involved with research seminars and visiting lectures at the Centre for Medieval Studies, and informally consults with students about their work in Middle English literature and manuscript studies.
for nine years from October 2006
contact c/o the English Department
Adam Phillips
Honorary Visiting Professor
Adam Phillips is an author and a psychoanalyst in private practice in London. He is the author of twelve highly praised books on literature, history, philosophy, child psychology, biography and psychoanalysis. Adam makes three visits a year, during which he gives lectures and participates in seminars, and is available for individual consultation.
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Langwith College L/D/202A
Tel: 01904 324716
lawrence.rainey@york.ac.uk
Lawrence Rainey
BA (Valparaiso), MA, PhD (Chicago)
Professor
Lawrence Rainey has written extensively on the classic works of Anglo-American modernism, including monographs on Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. He is currently at work on a cultural history of the typist, secretary, or stenographer as depicted in film and fiction from 1890 to 1940, a study that examines nearly three hundred films and novels.
Tel: 01904 324604
fjr1@york.ac.uk
Felicity Riddy
BA (NZ), MA (Auckland), BPhil (Oxon), FRSE
Emerita Professor
Felicity Riddy was educated at the universities of Auckland and Oxford and has wide interests in late-medieval literature and culture. She also has a long-standing interest in medieval Scottish literature as an editor and critic. She has written on women's reading and writing, and more recently has been working on urban culture, with articles on urban courtesy texts, romances, devotional reading and domesticity.
Langwith College L/A/208
Tel: 01904 323347
john.roe@york.ac.uk
John Roe
BA (Cantab), MA, PhD (Harvard)
Professor
John Roe has research interests in English and Italian Renaissance Literature: Shakespeare's poetry and drama, Petrarch and Machiavelli, narrative poetry and prose (e.g. Italian epic, Ariosto and Tasso), Spenser, Sidney's poetry and prose.
Langwith College L/A/028
Tel: 01904 323339
richard.rowland@york.ac.uk
Richard Rowland
BA (York), MPhil, DPhil (Oxon)
Senior Lecturer
Richard Rowland joined the department in 2001, after teaching for more than a decade at the University of Oxford. He has edited plays by Marlowe, Chapman and Jonson, and also works on the reception and reinvention of ancient drama.
deborah.russell@york.ac.uk Spring and Summer 2012
Deborah Russell
BA (Oxon), MA, PhD (York)
Teaching Fellow
Deborah Russell has research interests in the late eighteenth century, focusing on the politics of the Gothic, fictionalizations of British history, gender and national identity, and the development of fictional genres.
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Langwith College L/A/210
Tel: 01904 324718
erica.sheen@york.ac.uk
Erica Sheen
AGSM, BA (London), PhD (London)
Senior Lecturer
Erica Sheen teaches and researches in the Renaissance and in cinema, especially American and European cinemas in the Cold War. After a first career as an orchestral musician, she held a Junior Research Fellowship at Wolfson College Oxford, and subsequently taught at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London and Sheffield. Her current project is provisionally entitled Cold War Lives.
Langwith College L/D/102A
Tel: 01904 323340
bill.sherman@york.ac.uk
William H. Sherman
BA (Columbia), MPhil, PhD (Cantab)
Professor
William H Sherman is Professor of Renaissance/Early Modern Studies. He has published widely on the history of books and readers, Renaissance drama, travel writing and textual editing. He is currently writing a book on Renaissance libraries and biographical studies of Walter Conrad Arensberg and William Friedman; preparing an Arden edition of Marlowe's Jew of Malta; and editing a collection of essays on cutting and pasting in Renaissance culture.
Langwith College L/A/108
Tel: 01904 323353
helen.smith@york.ac.uk
Helen Smith
MA (Glasgow), PhD (York)
Lecturer
Helen Smith is Lecturer in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, and Co-Investigator on the AHRC-funded project Conversion Narratives in Early Modern Europe. Her research interests are in textual cultures and the history of the book, conversion narratives, early modern women, matter, and things. She is currently writing a book which brings together early modern and modern theories of matter and objects to trace an enduring history of vitalism.
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Kings Manor K/186
Tel: 01904 323922
matthew.townend@york.ac.uk
Matthew Townend
MA, DPhil (Oxon)
Reader
Matthew Townend research interests are in the language, literature and history of Viking Age England, Old Norse poetry, and late Anglo-Saxon literary culture. He is also interested in Anglo-Saxon and Norse medievalism, especially in the nineteenth century. He is currently editing the skaldic poems in honour of King Cnut, and writing a book about Viking Age Yorkshire.
Langwith College L/D/101A
Tel: 01904 324573
jonathan.tulloch@york.ac.uk
Jonathan Tulloch
Royal Literary Fund Fellow
Kings Manor K/275A
Tel: 01904 323915
elizabeth.tyler@york.ac.uk
Elizabeth M. Tyler
BA (Yale), MPhil (Glasgow), DPhil (Oxon)
Reader
Elizabeth M. Tyler is the author of articles and a monograph on the style of Old English poetry, the historicity of Old English poetry, and history-writing in high medieval Europe. Her research and teaching interests are interdisciplinary, ranging from late Anglo-Saxon and post-Conquest literary culture to early and high medieval historiography.
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Langwith College L/A/107
Tel: 01904 323334
geoffrey.wall@york.ac.uk
Geoffrey Wall
BA (Sussex), BPhil (Oxon)
Reader
Geoffrey Wall is a literary biographer, a translator, a freelance travel-writer and an editor of The Cambridge Quarterly. His current project is a biography of George Sand, the major woman writer of French Romanticism. He also has a strong interest in oral history and has recently set up the York Oral History Project.
Langwith College L/A/110
Tel: 01904 323338
richard.walsh@york.ac.uk
Richard Walsh
BA (Leeds), PhD (Cantab)
Senior Lecturer
Richard Walsh came to York from a Research Fellowship at Cambridge, during which he pursued research interests in American Literature. His research interests have since moved beyond the horizons of the American and contemporary towards a theoretical concern with fiction and narrative in general.
contact c/o the English Department
Nicola Ward Jouve
Lic ès-L, Dip Et Sup, Agr de L'Un, Anc EI ENS de Sèvres
Emerita Professor
Nicole Ward Jouve is Emeritus Professor of Literature at the University of York, has published fiction and essays in English and French, and has research interests in psychoanalysis, spirituality and self-development, and writing family memoirs as well as fiction.
Kings Manor K/275B
Tel: 01904 324978
jim.watt@york.ac.uk
James Watt
BA, MA, PhD (Cantab)
Senior Lecturer
James Watt arrived at York after two years of a post-doctoral research fellowship at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He has written a number of essays and articles that deal with eighteenth century and Romantic-period orientalism, and which feed into his current book project, provisionally titled British Orientalisms, 1759-1835.
Langwith College L/D/201B
Tel: 01904 323350
claire.westall@york.ac.uk
Claire Westall
BA (Warwick), MSc (Bristol), PhD (Warwick)
Lecturer
Claire Westall previously taught in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Warwick University. Her research interests include: postcolonial literature and theory, particularly questions of the nation and national identities; postcolonial rethinking of Englishness, Britishness and the legacies of empire; and the economic, cultural and literary consequences of globalisation.
Langwith College L/A/104
Tel: 01904 323351
judith.woolf@york.ac.uk
Judith Woolf
BA (Sussex), PhD (York)
Senior Lecturer
Judith Woolf's main academic research areas are twentieth century Italian-Jewish writers, especially Primo Levi and Natalia Ginzburg; life writing, especially in relation to the Holocaust; the relationship between photography and Victorian and Edwardian fiction; and narrative patterns in European literature.
Part-time tutors
Victoria Flood
vef502@york.ac.uk
Ellie McCullough
egm501@york.ac.uk
Amritesh Singh
as539@york.ac.uk
Abigail Shinn
abigail.shinn@york.ac.uk
Elizabeth Swann
els514@york.ac.uk
Joanna Wharton
jw597@york.ac.uk