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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Derwent College D/M/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.

Derwent College D/M/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.

B

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.

Derwent College D/M/202
Tel: 01904 323337
alex.beaumont@york.ac.uk
for one year from October 2012

Alexander Beaumont
BA (Exeter) MA, PhD (York)
Lecturer

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.

Grimston House V/X/131
Tel: 01904 323065
victoria.blud@york.ac.uk

for two years from October 2012

Victoria Blud
BA, MA, PhD (King's College London)
Teaching Fellow

Vicki Blud taught medieval literature at King's College London, Birkbeck and the University of Surrey before coming to York. Her research interests include concepts of space and place, transitional texts and the unspeakable in medieval literature and culture.

Derwent College D/M/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.

King's Manor K/G86
Tel: 01904 324977
venetia.bridges@york.ac.ukVenetia Bridges
MA (Oxon), PhD (Cantab)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Venetia Bridges’ research interests are the English, French and Latin literature of the Middle Ages, especially the twelfth to fourteenth centuries. She is particularly interested in language interaction, the reception and adaptation of classical narratives, issues of fictionality, and medieval theories of interpretation. Her current project combines all these themes, focusing on accounts of Alexander the Great from 1100-1550.

Derwent College D/P/201A
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. His research interests include Ruskin and Morris, Cold War literature and films; Westerns and Noirs; British Writing between and during the world wars, especially Socialist and Feminist writers; Godzilla.

Derwent College D/P/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. Her current research interests include Life Writing in the nineteenth century (letters, diaries, autobiography, biography), and the construction of masculinities in Victorian culture.

Derwent College D/M/202
Tel: 01904 323337
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.

C

Derwent College D/M/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)'.

Derwent College D/M/207
Tel: 01904 324216
claire.chambers@york.ac.ukClaire Chambers
BA (Newcastle), MA, PhD (Leeds)
Lecturer

Claire Chambers joined the Department in October 2012 after eight years as a lecturer in the School of Cultural Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University. Her research and teaching interests include religion and literature; writing from South Asia, the Arab world, and their diasporas; multicultural textualities in Britain; and literary representations of British Muslims.

Derwent College D/P/101a
Tel: 01904 324573
kp.clarke@york.ac.ukK P Clarke
MA, MPhil (Dubl), MA (Cantab), MA DPhil (Oxon)
Lecturer

Kenneth Clarke joined the department in 2012 as Anniversary Research Lecturer from Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he was the Keith Sykes Research Fellow in Italian Studies, as well as an Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Italian. Previously, he taught Old and Middle English Literature as College Lecturer at Brasenose College, Oxford. His research interests are in Chaucer and the Italian Trecento; Boccaccio; Dante; book history; word and image.

Derwent College D/M/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.

Derwent College D/P/001
Tel: 01904 323068
brian.cummings@york.ac.ukBrian Cummings
MA, PhD (Cantab)
Professor

Brian Cummings joined the Department as Anniversary Professor in October 2012, after teaching at Cambridge and Sussex, where he co-founded the Centre for Early Modern Studies. He works on Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, and also writes on the history of religion, the history of the book, modern poetry, and the philosophy of literature. He recently edited the Book of Common Prayer, and is currently writing on Shakespeare and religion.

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Derwent College D/M/201
Tel: 01904 32 3357
tania.demetriou@york.ac.uk

Tania Demetriou
BA (Cantab), MPhil (Oxon), PhD (Cantab)
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.

Derwent College D/M/104
Tel: 01904 323351
david.dwan@york.ac.uk

David Dwan
BA (Oxon), MA, PhD (London)
Senior Lecturer

David Dwan’s research focuses on modernism and its broader intellectual history. He also writes on Irish literature and politics. He is the author of The Great Community: Culture and Nationalism in Ireland (2008), the co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Edmund Burke (2012) and has published articles on Burke, Rousseau, Heidegger, Yeats and Woolf.

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Derwent College D/M/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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King's Manor K/275B
Tel: 01904 324968
mary.fairclough@york.ac.ukMary Fairclough
BA (Oxon), MA, PhD (York)
Lecturer

Mary Fairclough joined the Department in 2012 from the University of Huddersfield. Her research interests lie in the interrelation of literary, scientific and political discourse during the period 1750-1850, in particular eighteenth-century theories of communication, print culture and the public sphere, and the science of electricity.

Derwent College D/L/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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kg521@york.ac.uk

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/G74
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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Derwent College D/J/007
Tel: 01904 324569
alice.hall@york.ac.ukAlice Hall
MA, MPhil, PhD (Cantab)
Lecturer

Alice Hall studied at Cambridge and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Studies at the University of Nottingham. She taught at Université Paris Diderot, La Sorbonne Nouvelle and Cambridge before coming to York. Her research interests are in contemporary and global literature, particularly the areas of cultural disability studies, literature and the body, autobiographical fiction, ageing, and medical humanities.

Derwent College D/J/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 323366
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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Derwent College D/J/003
Tel: 01904 324571
michelle.kelly@york.ac.uk

for one year from October 2012Michelle Kelly
BA (NUI), MA, PhD (York)
Lecturer

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.

Derwent College D/M/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/G73
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
Tel: 01904 323920
nicola.mcdonald@york.ac.uk
for Board of Studies
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.

Grimston House V/X/133
Tel: 01904 323067
paul.mills@york.ac.ukPaul Mills
Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow 2012-13

Paul will provide a free and confidential consultation service to help students improve their writing. He has writen poems, plays and two books on writing. His most recent publication is You Should've Seen Us, containing poems recorded onto silent films from the Yorkshire Film Archive, with photographs from the films.

Derwent College D/M/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 323366
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.

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.

Derwent College D/J/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 and contemporary drama, twentieth-century British and Irish literature, European modernism and the historical avant-garde.

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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 323366
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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Derwent College D/M/127
Tel: 01904 323331
bryan.radley@york.ac.uk

for one year from October 2012Bryan Radley
BA (Dubl), MA, PhD (York)
Lecturer

Bryan Radley’s current work is on cultural identity, genre, and place-making in contemporary Irish-American fiction. Other research interests include theories of comedy and twentieth- and twenty-first century Irish literature, in particular the novels of John Banville.

Derwent College D/P/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 323366
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.

Derwent College D/M/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.

Derwent College D/M/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.

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Derwent College D/M/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.

Derwent College D/P/102A
Tel: 01904 323340
bill.sherman@york.ac.uk

William H. Sherman
BA (Columbia), MPhil, PhD (Cantab)
Professor

Bill Sherman joined the department in 2005 and is Director of the Renaissance School. His research interests include the history of books and readers, the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, the interface between word and image and the relationship between knowledge and power.

Derwent College D/M/108
Tel: 01904 323353
helen.smith@york.ac.uk

Helen Smith
MA (Glasgow), PhD (York)
Reader

Helen Smith has published widely on material texts, women and print culture, and embodiment. 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.

Derwent College D/J/102
Tel: 01904 323359
freya.sierhuis@york.ac.uk

Freya Sierhuis

MA (UvA, Amsterdam), MPhil (Cambridge), PhD (European University Institute, Florence)
MA (Glasgow), PhD (York)
Lecturer

Freya Sierhuis joined the department in 2013 as Anniversary Research Lecturer from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, where she was Exzellenzinitiative Research Fellow at the Department of Anglistik und Amerikanistik and Junior Research Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies. Her research interests include early modern English and Dutch literature; literature and religion; intellectual history 1500-1700; the emotions in early modern culture; the work of Fulke Greville.

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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.

Kings Manor K/275A
Tel: 01904 323915
elizabeth.tyler@york.ac.uk

Elizabeth M. Tyler
BA (Yale), MPhil (Glasgow), DPhil (Oxon)
Professor

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.

Grimston House V/X/132
Tel: 01904 323066
ben.tyrer@york.ac.uk

for nine months from October 2012Ben Tyrer
BA, MA, PhD (KCL)
Teaching Fellow

Ben Tyrer taught in the Film Studies department at King’s College London. He has written articles on Left Bank cinema and on Lacan and film noir. His research interests include film theory and critical theory (particularly psychoanalysis), film-philosophy, post-war European cinema, art cinema, and East Asian popular cinema.

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Derwent College D/M/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.

Derwent College D/M/110
Tel: 01904 323338
richard.walsh@york.ac.uk

Richard Walsh
BA (Leeds), PhD (Cantab)
Senior Lecturer

Richard Walsh came to York from Cambridge in 1995; he has research interests in narrative theory, 20th-century American literature, innovative fiction, early cinema, narratives in new and interactive media, and complexity. He is the Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Narrative Studies.

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/173B
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.

Derwent College D/P/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.

Derwent College D/M/203
Tel: 01904 324719
james.williams@york.ac.ukJames Williams
MA (Oxon), PhD (Cantab)
Lecturer

James Williams came to York in 2012 from Oxford, where he held lectureships at Brasenose College and Jesus College. His research interests include Victorian and Modernist poetry; Victorian nonsense writing and its influence; poetic form and metre; and the works of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett.

Tel: 01904 323366
judith.woolf@york.ac.uk

Judith Woolf
BA (Sussex), PhD (York)
Honorary Associate

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.