Professors Emeritus and honorary fellows

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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.

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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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Henry Bainton worked in the department from 2010-2017, and now teaches at the University of Copenhagen. His research focuses mainly on medieval English, French and Latin literature.

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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.

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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.

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Nicholas R. Havely has principal research interests in English-Italian literary relations, translation and travel-writing. He has recently published two edited collections of essays on reception of Dante in the nineteenth century (2011 and 2012) and a study of Dante's British readers and public (2014).

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After an academic career at the Australian National University and several European universities, Christa Knellwolf King is now an Associate Professor of English Literature at Sultan Qaboos University

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A. David Moody is the author of a 3-volume critical biography of Ezra Pound, Ezra Pound: Poet. A Portrait of the Man & His Work (Oxford University Press).  Vol. 1 was published in 2007; vol. 2 in 2014; vol. 3 in 2015.

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Linne Mooney recently retired from her position as Professor of Medieval English Palaeography in the Department and at the Centre for Medieval Studies. She remains research active in her field of late medieval English manuscripts, especially specialising in the scribes of major works of Middle English literature. She maintains the web sites

Late Medieval Scribes (medievalscribes.com) with Simon Horobin and Digital Index of Middle English Verse (DIMEV.net) with Daniel Mosser.

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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.

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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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Felicity Riddy has published extensively on a wide range of subjects relating to the literature and culture of England and Scotland in the later Middle Ages.  

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John Roe's main research areas are Shakespeare, and English and Italian Renaissance literature.  His publications include The Poems of Shakespeare (an edition) and Shakespeare and Machiavelli.  He has a keen interest in modern American poetry and has also contributed 'John Berryman' to the Continuuum 'Great Shakespeareans' series.  An abiding passion is the work of the novelist Anthony Powell, and he is a trustee of the Anthony Powell Society.  Following his retirement from York he has taught in Germany at the University of the Saarland.

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Gillian Russell is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature.  She is an expert on British and Irish literature and culture of the period 1730-1830, focusing on theatre, gender, sociability, war studies, and print culture, especially the history of printed ephemera.  She teaches on first year, Romantic and eighteenth-century studies modules.

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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.

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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.