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Professor Derek Attridge Professor in the Department of English and Related Literature	Literary theory Poetic form Irish and South African fiction
Professor David Attwell Head of Department and Professor in the Department of English and Related Literature	African literature J.M. Coetzee Post-colonial studies
Professor John Barrell Professor in the Department of English and Related Literature	English literature Art and history, 1730-1830
Dr Anna Bernard Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature	Palestinian literature Israeli literature Nationalism and the novel Postcolonial studies
Dr Matthew Bevis Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature	19th- and 20th-century literature, particularly poetry
Professor John Michael Bowen Professor in the Department of English and Related Literature	19th-century fiction, particularly Dickens
Dr Trev Broughton Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Women's Studies	Life-writing 19th-century prose Gender
Dr Judith Buchanan Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature	Cinematic literary adaptation Cinematic authorship Self-reflexive cinema Cinematic genres
Dr Gabriella Corona Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature	Early Middle Ages: Anglo-Saxon literature Hagiography Text transmission Intellectual history
Dr Victoria Coulson Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature	19th-century narrative representation and material cultures Henry James Psychoanalysis
Dr Jane Elliott Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature	The contemporary novel Post 1945 American fiction Feminism, especially feminist theory Contemporary American popular culture
Dr Ziad Elmarsafy Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature	Middle Eastern/North African literature and culture French and Francophone literature and culture Islam and the West (writ large) The Enlightenment
Professor Helen Fulton Professor in the Department of English and Related Literature	Arthurian literature Medieval literature Welsh literature, language and culture Cultural theory History of the language Narrative and media
Professor Harriet Guest Co-Director of the Centre for 18th Century Studies and Professor in the Department of English and Related Literature	Literature of the 18th and 19th centuries, especially women’s writing Voyages of exploration, especially Cook
Professor Hugh Haughton Professor in the Department of English and Related Literature	T.S. Eliot Modernism Modern poetry Irish writing
Professor Nicholas Havely Professor in the Department of English and Related Literature	Chaucer Dante The reception of Dante up to the present
Dr Kevin Killeen Lecturer in Renaissance Literature in the Department of English and Related Literature	The Bible and religious culture in 16th and 17th Century England Milton and radical politics Renaissance literature Poetry
Dr Emma Major Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature	Religion, gender and national identity, 1740–1860
Dr Nicola McDonald Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature	Medieval romance Practice of fiction Women's social games Chaucer
Dr Stephen Minta Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature	Byron Comparative literature (French, Spanish, Greek) Literature and politics
Professor David Moody Emeritus Professor in the Department of English and Related Literature	20th century literature T.S. Eliot Ezra Pound Modern poetry, especially American poetry
Professor Linne Mooney Professor in the Department of English and Related Literature	Late medieval English palaeography and codicology, especially scribes
Dr Emilie Morin Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature	British and Irish drama, 1880 to the present European modernism
Alison O'Byrne Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature	Literature of the long eighteenth century Representations of the city, 1700-1840
Professor Graham Parry Emeritus Professor in the Department of English and Related Literature	The 17th century Laurence Sterne Sydney Smith The Pre-Raphaelites Contemporary Japan
Professor Lawrence Rainey Professor in the Department of English and Related Literature	Modern literature Modernism (James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf etc) American literature and culture Rare books
Dr John Roe Reader in the Department of English and Related Literature	Renaissance English and Italian literature: Petrarch, Shakespeare, Machiavelli
Dr Richard Rowland Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature	Ancient and Renaissance drama, and modern reinventions of both
Dr Erica Sheen Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature	Shakespeare Film history and theory The cultural politics of cinema
Professor William Sherman Professor in the Department of English and Related Literature and Co-Director of the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies	Books/readers Editing Renaissance drama Travel writing
Dr Helen Smith Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature	Renaissance literature and cultural history Feminism History of the book
Dr Matthew Townend Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature	Old English and Old Norse Philology Victorian medievalism
Dr Elizabeth Tyler Reader in the Department of English and Related Literature	Anglo-Saxon and early Norman literatures (including historiography) Multilingualism Women
Dr Geoffrey Wall Reader in the Department of English and Related Literature	Biography Translation Travel writing History of medicine All things French
Dr Richard Walsh Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature	Narrative theory and fiction Early film Narrative imagination across media
Dr James Watt Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature	British Orientalisms in the long 18th century
Dr Judith Woolf Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature	Italian Jewish writing Modernism Early photography

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