Lola Boorman 

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Derwent D/J/200
Tel: 01904 324717
john.bowen@york.ac.uk

John Bowen
MA (Cantab), PhD (Birmingham)
Professor

John Bowen is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature and teaches on our Romantic, Victorian and  Modern modules. He is an expert on nineteenth-century fiction, particularly the works of Charles Dickens, Emily and Charlotte Bronte, Wilkie Collins and Anthony Trollope.

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Janine Bradbury
BA, MA, PhD (Sheffield)
Derwent D/J/223
Tel: 01904 321097
janine.bradbury@york.ac.uk


Senior Lecturer

Janine Bradbury is a Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Writing and Culture.  She works across a number of research areas including African American literature, Black British writing, American Studies, Caribbean writing, popular culture (including television and film), history, and creative writing. 

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Derwent D/J/215A
Tel: 01904 324572
jnb4@york.ac.uk  
part-time

Jonathan Brockbank
MA, MLitt (Cantab)
Lecturer

Jonathan Brockbank is a Lecturer in Modern Literature, though he has taught in many areas ranging from Romanticism to the Renaissance. His personal research interests include Ruskin and Morris, Cold War literature and films; Westerns and Noirs; Yorkshire Social Realist writing (author and place), traditional music and song of Britain and the USA, and Godzilla.

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Francesca BrooksDerwent D/J/115B
Tel: 01904 323331
francesca.brooks@york.ac.uk                                         
BA (Cantab), MA, PhD (King’s College London)
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

Francesca Brooks is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow (2020-23). Her research brings together medieval and modernist literary and visual culture, exploring the ways in which the early medieval past and its cultural productions have been reimagined and recreated in post-medieval poetry and the arts.

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Derwent D/J/112
Tel: 01904 323360
matt.campbell@york.ac.uk

Matthew Campbell
BA (Dublin), PhD (Cantab)
Professor

Matthew Campbell has written widely on poetry from the late eighteenth century up to the present day.  He arrived in York as Professor of Modern Literature in 2011 and he teaches Victorian, Modern and Irish literature. Recent publications include a book about nineteenth-century poetry from and about Ireland and various articles and essays on Irish poetry and poetics.

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King's Manor K/284
Tel: 01904 324975 michele.campopiano@york.ac.uk

Michele Campopiano
MA (U. di Pisa; SNS Pisa), PhD (SNS Pisa)
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Medieval Latin Literature

Michele Campopiano is a Senior Lecturer in Medieval Latin Literature. He specialises in editing 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.

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Vahni Capildeo
MA DPhil (Oxon), FRSL
Tel: 01904 321352
vahni.capildeo@york.ac.uk


Professor

Surya Vahni Priya Capildeo is Writer in Residence at the University of York. They are a Contributing Editor for PN Review and a Contributing Adviser for Blackbox Manifold. Academic interests include silence, place, plurilingualism, and ecopoetics. Practice-based research includes a variety of performance traditions. Capildeo is finishing an eighth full-length poetry collection for Carcanet Press on metamorphoses and journeys, and recently contributed a series of non-fiction dispatches during an online residency for the University of Canberra as part of the Poetry on the Move Festival’s pandemic response.  

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Derwent D/J/122
Tel: 01904 321294
olivia.carpenter@york.ac.uk

Olivia Carpenter
BA (University of New Mexico), MA (Harvard), PhD (Harvard) 
Lecturer

Olivia Carpenter is a Lecturer in Literature. She specializes in Black Studies, Critical Race Theory, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature. Her research focuses on race and literary history, especially writings by and about Black Britons during the Abolition era. 

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Maya Caspari
BA (Oxon), MA (UCL), PhD (Leeds)
Derwent D/J/126
Tel: 01904 321109
maya.caspari@york.ac.uk


Lecturer in English and Creative Industries

Maya Caspari is a Lecturer in English and Creative Industries. Her first book discusses the politics of touch in contemporary world literature. She is also an emerging poet. She is committed to public engagement, having previously worked at a number of arts and cultural organisations. 

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Derwent D/J/107
Tel: 01904 324216
claire.chambers@york.ac.uk

Claire Chambers
BA (Newcastle), MA, PhD (Leeds)
Professor

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Derwent D/J/227
Tel: 01904 324573 kp.clarke@york.ac.uk

K P Clarke
MA, MPhil (Dubl), MA (Cantab), MA DPhil (Oxon)
Senior Lecturer

Kenneth Clarke is a Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature and teaches Dante, both to undergraduate and postgraduates, and also teaches on the first-year module ‘A World of Literature I’. He is particularly interested in how poetry was copied in medieval manuscripts, and how Dante was read by his contemporaries.

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Sophie Coulombeau
Derwent D/J/115B
Tel: 01904 321338
sophie.coulombeau@york.ac.uk


BA (Oxon), MA (UPenn), PhD (York)
Lecturer

Sophie Coulombeau is a Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature. Her specialisms include naming and identity, women's writing, and reading practices in the period 1760-1820. She's also a published novelist and a frequent presenter on BBC Radio 3, and is interested in intersections between critical expertise, creative practice and public engagement.

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Victoria Coulson

Derwent D/J/202
Tel: 01904 323348
victoria.coulson@york.ac.uk

MA, MPhil, PhD (Cantab)
Professor

Victoria Coulson is a Professor in Modern Literature.  She teaches on our nineteenth- and twentieth-century American and British literature modules in the department and is an expert on Henry James, Elizabeth Bowen, and psychoanalytic theory.

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Derwent D/L/148
Tel: 01904 323068 brian.cummings@york.ac.uk

Brian Cummings
MA, PhD (Cantab), FBA
Professor

Brian Cummings is a Professor of Renaissance Literature. Brian teaches on our Renaissance modules, and is an expert on Shakespeare, religion and literature, and the philosophy of literature.

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Mary Fairclough
BA (Oxon), MA, PhD (York)

King's Manor K/275B
Tel: 01904 324968
mary.fairclough@york.ac.uk

Professor of Eighteenth Century and Romantic Literature

Mary Fairclough is Professor of Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature and a member of the interdisciplinary Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies. She teaches on a range of modules on eighteenth-century and Romantic period topics, medical humanities, and affect studies. Her research interests lie in the connections between literary, scientific and political discourse in the period 1750-1850, in particular theories of feeling and emotion, print culture and the public sphere, the science of electricity, and religious devotion.

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G

Nick Gill is the department's printer in residence, joining us one day a week to work with students in Thin Ice Press, our onsite letterpress studio.

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Derwent D/J/226
Tel: 01904 324569
alice.hall@york.ac.uk

Alice Hall
BA, MPhil, PhD (Cantab)
Lecturer

Alice Hall is a Lecturer in Contemporary and Global Literature. She teaches on modern, contemporary and global literature modules, including third year and MA module options about British and American literature. She is particularly interested in interdisciplinary approaches to literature which explore ideas about health, illness, disability, and cultural representations of the body. 

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Ezra Horbury
BA (Warwick), MA (Warwick), PhD (Cantab)
Derwent D/J/218A
Tel: 01904 323337
ezra.horbury@york.ac.uk


Lecturer in Renaissance Literature 

Ezra Horbury is a Lecturer in Renaissance Literature. Their expertise spans early modern drama, Reformation theology, and queer and transgender studies in literary and historical contexts. Their research specifically pursues perceptions of gendered embodiment, the impact of the vernacular Bible, and the intersectionality of marginalized bodies. 

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Tom Houlton
BA (Cantab), MA (New York University), PhD (Sussex)
Derwent D/J/218B
Tel: 01904 328475
thomas.houlton@york.ac.uk


Lecturer

Tom Houlton is a Lecturer in Film & Literature. He is an interdisciplinary scholar, specialising in LGBTQIA+ visual and literary cultures, monuments and remembrance, ecocriticism and environmental studies, queer theory, postcolonial and decolonial theory, and psychoanalysis. He is particularly interested in the connections between sexuality, ecology, and capitalism as seen through monuments from across the colonial and postcolonial periods. He has worked in arts institutions in the USA and UK, and at the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence at the University of Sussex.

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Shazia Jagot
BA (Leicester) MA (SOAS) PhD (Leicester)
Lecturer
Derwent D/J/002
Tel: 01904 323361
shazia.jagot@york.ac.uk

Shazia Jagot is a Lecturer in Medieval and Global Literature. Shazia’s research interests span across late medieval English literature and the Islamic world. Her current work explores an Arabic presence in the work of Chaucer through the transmission of Arabic scientific and philosophical ideas. Her other interests include visual and material culture, Islam and Sufism, medieval Arabic literature, postcolonial and global literature.

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Derwent D/J/222
Tel: 01904 323023
holly.james-maddocks@york.ac.uk

Holly James-Maddocks
BA (Warwick); MA (York); MA (Toronto); PhD (York)
Lecturer

Holly James-Maddocks is a Lecturer in Medieval Literature and Palaeography. Holly studies manuscript and early print copies of English literature from the late fourteenth to the early sixteenth centuries in order to see what they reveal about their production and use, and thus about literary and cultural history.

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Derwent D/J/021
Tel: 01904 323363
kevin.killeen@york.ac.uk

Kevin Killeen
BA, MA, PhD (London)
Professor

Kevin Killeen is a Professor in Renaissance Literature. He researches early modern intellectual history, particularly the religious, scientific, and political cultures of seventeenth century England.  He teaches early modern literature, as well as contemporry literature and the bible.  He is editor of Renaissance Studies.  

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Derwent D/J/217B
Tel: 01903 323347
alexandra.kingston-reese@york.ac.uk

Alexandra Kingston-Reese
BA Hons (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ, and University of Sydney), PhD (University of Sydney)
Senior Lecturer

Alexandra Kingston-Reese is a Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature and the Co-Director of the Modern Research School. She specializes in 21st century American literature, with a particular interest in the novel and essay after 1945, theory of the novel, literary institutions, the practices and politics of reading, and the history of the humanities.

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Tom Lubek
BA (York), MA (York), PhD (York)

Derwent D/J/118A
Tel: 01904 324894
thomas.lubek@york.ac.uk

Lecturer 

Tom Lubek is a Lecturer in Literature, whose research brings postcolonial/world-literary, environmental humanities, and energy humanities approaches to bear upon science fiction literature and film. Alongside his teaching in the Department, he is currently working on his first monograph: Imagining Life on a Damaged Planet: Resourceful Futuring in World-SF Film and Literature.

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M

Alicia Maddalena
BA (University of Western Ontario), MA (York), PhD (York)
Derwent D/J/118A
Tel: 01904 325824
alicia.maddalena@york.ac.uk


Lecturer

Alicia Maddalena is an Associate Lecturer in Medieval Literature with Old Norse, and has taught for a number of years in the department as a Graduate Teaching Assistant. She specialises in Old Norse poetry, and is particularly interested in how we might approach the poetry starting at the level of the semantic field.  

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Kings Manor K/G73
Tel: 01904 324974
emma.major@york.ac.uk

Emma Major

BA (Cantab), MA, PhD (York)
Senior Lecturer 

Emma Major is a Senior Lecturer in 18th Century and Romantic Literature and a member of the interdisciplinary Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York. She researches various types of literature in the period 1660-1880, including religious writing, women’s writing, and political debate – and often all three at once.

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Daniel Matore

MA (Cantab), MPhil (Cantab), DPhil (Oxon)
Derwent D/J/007
Tel: 01904 323370
daniel.matore@york.ac.uk


Lecturer in Modern, American and Comparative Literature

 

Daniel Matore is Lecturer in Modern, American and Comparative Literature.  He specialises in twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, American literature, and comparative literature.
 

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Kings Manor K/184
Tel: 01904 323920
nicola.mcdonald@york.ac.uk

Nicola McDonald
BA, MA (Toronto), MPhil, DPhil (Oxon)
Senior Lecturer

Nicola McDonald is a Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature. Her special interest is in Middle English romance, the most popular and most audacious genre of literature to survive from the Middle Ages and the ancestor of much of today’s popular literature (especially science fiction and fantasy literature). She is also interested in medieval women’s literacy and reading practices, in the writing of Geoffrey Chaucer, medieval Chaucer, medieval manuscript culture and much more.

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Kings Manor K/G74
Tel: 01904 324986
jon.mee@york.ac.uk

Jon Mee
MA, PhD (Cantab)
Professor

Jon Mee is Professor of Eighteenth Century Studies.  He is an expert in Literature, Politics, and Society in the period 1780-1850.  He is interested in the role of print, sociability, and networks in the circulation of ideas in the period.  He is currently working on the 'Northern Powerhouse' in the Industrial Revolution, including thinking about the position of literature in what Wordsworth called 'this inventive age'.  Is literature a 'useful knowledge'? What role did it play in the age’s idea of itself as one when knowledge expanded to new audiences? Was literary genius different from the inventiveness that produced the steam engine? Out of this work, he has also become increasingly interested in the period’s environmental thinking and the question of the limits to growth. 

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Juliana Mensah    
BA (York), MA (Sunderland), PhD (Newcastle)

Derwent D/J/102
Tel: 01904 321100
juliana.mensah@york.ac.uk

Lecturer

Juliana Mensah is a Lecturer in English and Creative Writing and teaches on modules on contemporary and global literature, creative writing and creative industries.  She has a particular interest in the uses of creative practice in social justice contexts.  Her debut novel, Castles from Cobwebs, was published in 2021. 

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S.M.J Minta
BA (Oxon), DPhil (Sussex)
Derwent D/J/127
Tel: 01904 323346
stephen.minta@york.ac.uk


Senior Lecturer

S.M.J. Minta is a Senior Lecturer. His specialist interests are in the Romantic period, particularly the poetry of Byron; in comparative literature (French, Spanish, and Greek); and in the relationship between literature and politics.

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Derwent 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)
Professor

Emilie Morin is Professor of Modern Literature. She teaches modern and contemporary literature and drama on our BA and MA programmes, and is an expert in transnational modernism and post-1945 literature. 

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Kings Manor K/173A
Tel: 01904 324992
alison.obyrne@york.ac.uk

Alison O'Byrne

BA (Trinity), PhD (York)
Senior 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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Melissa Oliver-Powell
BA, MA, PhD (London)
Derwent D/J/215B
Tel: 01904 321118
melissa.oliver-powell@york.ac.uk


Lecturer

Melissa Oliver-Powell joined the department in 2021 as a Lecturer in Film and Literature. She is a comparative film scholar with a background in modern languages and specialises in intersectional feminist and queer theories. She has previously taught at UCL and the University of Exeter and teaches widely across topics in world film and literary studies.

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Ryan Pepin
ryan.pepin@york.ac.uk


BA (Cambridge), MSt (Oxford), PhD (Cambridge)
Associate Lecturer

Ryan comes to York as a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, having previously worked as a researcher in Vienna and Florence. In Florence, Ryan held the Marco Praloran Fellowship at the Fondazione Ezio Franceschini. He was awarded his PhD in 2020 by the University of Cambridge.

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Derwent D/L/141
Tel: 01904 323355
bryan.radley@york.ac.uk

Bryan Radley
BA (Dublin), MA, PhD (York)
Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature

Bryan Radley's research focuses on Irish literature, humour studies, and modern and contemporary fiction. He teaches modules on twentieth- and twenty-first-century American, British, and Irish writing.  He convenes an Advanced Option Module on Irish Comic Fiction and is an expert on John Banville.

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Jane Raisch
Derwent D/J/201
Tel: 01904 323357
jane.raisch@york.ac.uk


BA (University of Pennsylvania), PhD (University of California, Berkeley)
Lecturer

Jane Raisch is a Lecturer in Renaissance Literature. Her research focuses on the influence of classical antiquity, especially ancient Greek, on Renaissance fiction and she is particularly interested in books as objects and the history of early print. She teaches courses on medieval and Renaissance literature, on ‘being lost’, and is currently fascinated by the history of games. 

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Namratha Rao
BA, MSt, DPhil (Oxon)
Derwent D/J/117A
Tel: 01904 322929
namratha.rao@york.ac.uk


Lecturer

Namratha Rao is a Lecturer in Early Modern Literature and a member of the interdisciplinary Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at York. Her research focuses on literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with particular interests in allegory, poetry and poetics, and theories and histories of embodiment, affect and science. 

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Hannah Roche
MA (Glasgow), MA (Sussex), PhD (Leeds)
Senior Lecturer

Derwent D/J/117B
Tel: 01904 323389
hannah.roche@york.ac.uk

Hannah Roche is Senior Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture. She specialises in queer writing of the early twentieth century, modernist fiction and poetry, and narratives of expatriation. Hannah has published on writers including Gertrude Stein, Radclyffe Hall, Djuna Barnes, Amy Lowell, and D. H. Lawrence.

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Derwent D/J/115A
Tel: 01904 323330
deborah.russell@york.ac.uk

Deborah Russell
BA (Oxon), MA, PhD (York)
Senior Lecturer

Deborah Russell is a Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature and a member of the interdisciplinary Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies. Her research interests focus on Romantic-period Gothic fiction, with a particular emphasis on women’s writing and discourses of national identity. She also specialises in Gothic theatre, focusing on dynamics of adaptation and the politics of silence on stage.   

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S

Peter Sands
BA, MA, PhD (Sheffield)
Berrick Saul BS/202
peter.sands@york.ac.uk


Postdoctoral Research Associate

Peter Sands is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Anthropocene Change at the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity and the Department of English and Related Literature. His research focuses on the representation of animals in 20th and 21st century literature, Cold War techno-culture, extinction, posthumanism, and critical theory.  

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Erica Sheen
AGSM, BA (London), PhD (London)
Senior Lecturer

Derwent D/J/206
Tel: 01904 324718
erica.sheen@york.ac.uk

Erica Sheen is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Literature.  Her research includes Shakespearean theatre in the 16th/17th centuries, geopolitical approaches to Shakespeare in the 20th century, post- and Cold War European and American film and cinema, and animal studies.  

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Derwent D/J/101 
Tel: 01904 323359 freya.sierhuis@york.ac.uk

Freya Sierhuis
MA (UvA, Amsterdam), MPhil (Cantab), PhD (European University Institute, Florence)
Senior Lecturer

Freya Sierhuis is a Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature. Freya teaches on our Renaissance modules and is an expert in Dutch Golden Age literature. Her research interests include literature and religion, the emotions in early modern culture, and the environment and literature.

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Derwent D/J/123
Tel: 01904 323352
helen.smith@york.ac.uk

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

Head of Department

Helen Smith is Professor of Renaissance Literature and Head of Department. Helen is an expert in early modern literature, with a particular emphasis on women’s work and writing, material texts, religion and conversion, and natural philosophy and science. She is especially interested in how books are made and used, and is co-founder of Thin Ice Press, the Department’s in-house letterpress printing studio.

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Derwent D/J/123
emily.stevenson@york.ac.uk

Emily Stevenson

BA (Warwick), MA (King’s College London), PhD (Oxford)
Lecturer

Emily Stevenson is a Lecturer in Renaissance and Early Modern Literature and a member of the interdisciplinary Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at York. Her research examines travel writing in the sixteenth century, with a focus on Richard Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations, as well as early modern mercantile women. 

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Natasha Tanna
BA, MPhil, PhD (Cambridge)

Derwent D/J/118A
Tel: 01904 323351
natasha.tanna@york.ac.uk

Lecturer

Natasha Tanna is a Lecturer in World Literature and currently holds a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship (January 2020 to December 2022). She specialises in contemporary literary engagements with queer theory, decolonial theory, and critical race theory. Her areas of expertise include Latin(x) American and Caribbean literature as well as Iberian literature in Spanish and Catalan. 

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Kings Manor K/186
Tel: 01904 323922
matthew.townend@york.ac.uk

Matthew Townend
MA, DPhil (Oxon)
Professor

Matthew Townend is a Professor in English and Deputy Head of Department. He is an expert on Old Norse (Viking) language and literature, and translated and recorded the soundtrack for the Jorvik Viking Centre in York. He is also very interested in the re-use of medieval language and literature in modern fiction and poetry, from Arthurian legends to Tolkienian fantasy.

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Derwent D/J/100
Tel: 01904 323915
elizabeth.tyler@york.ac.uk

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

Elizabeth Tyler is Professor of Medieval Literature. Her research and teaching focuses on the literary culture of England from the 9th to the 12th century: that is from the time of Alfred the Great to the time of William of Malmesbury and Geoffrey of Monmouth. Situated at the intersection of literary study with intellectual, social and political history, her work stresses the international nature of English literature and draws attention to the key role England plays in the flourishing of European literary culture across the early and high Middle Ages. 

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Anna Wall
BA, MA, PhD (University of East Anglia)
Derwent D/J/021
Tel: 01904 325868
anna.wall@york.ac.uk


Lecturer  

Anna Wall is a Lecturer in Literature. Anna is an expert in the material and textual cultures of early modern women’s writing, with a particular emphasis on the domestically produced texts of nonconformist writers. Her further interests include the history of the book, women’s textual networks, and lay Puritanism. 

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Derwent D/J/106
Tel: 01904 323338
richard.walsh@york.ac.uk

Richard Walsh
BA (Leeds), PhD (Cantab)
Professor of Narrative Studies

Richard Walsh is a Professor in the Modern School and Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Narrative Studies.  He teaches modules in narrative theory, including in visual media (early film, comics, digital and interactive narratives), and across disciplines (philosophy of mind, cognitive science, AI, music, historiography, complexity science); also American literature, environmental criticism, philosophical aesthetics and literary theory.

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Kings Manor K/173B
Tel: 01904 324978
jim.watt@york.ac.uk

James Watt
BA, MA, PhD (Cantab)
Professor

Jim Watt teaches on eighteenth and nineteenth-century modules, and is the convenor of the Intermediate Option Module 'Inventing Britain'. He is especially interested in British identities in relation both to empire and - as explored by the Gothic - the past.

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J T Welsch
Derwent D/J/003
Tel: 01904 324719
jt.welsch@york.ac.uk


BMus (Berklee College of Music, Boston); MAs (Royal Holloway); PhD (Manchester)
Senior Lecturer

JT Welsch joined the department in 2016 as Lecturer in English and Creative Industries, coming from York St John University, where he was a Lecturer and Head of Creative Writing. His research includes twentieth-century American poetry and the contemporary poetry industry. As a poet and scholar, his work is broadly concerned with the relationship between critical and creative practices and the ethics of aesthetic labour.

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Derwent D/L/147
Tel: 01904 323350
claire.westall@york.ac.uk

Claire Westall
BA (Warwick), MSc (Bristol), PhD (Warwick)
Senior 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.

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Kings Manor K/191
Tel: 01904 323924
chloe.wigstonsmith@york.ac.uk

Chloe Wigston Smith
BA (Wellesley), MA (Courtauld Institute of Art), MA, PhD (University of Virginia)
Senior Lecturer

Chloe Wigston Smith is Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth Century Literature. She specializes in the literature and culture of the long eighteenth century, and her research interests include the history of the novel, gender studies, visual and material culture, women's literature, performance and the Atlantic world.

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Derwent D/J/207
Tel: 01904 323340 james.williams@york.ac.uk

James Williams
MA (Oxon), PhD (Cantab)
Senior Lecturer

James Williams is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture. His areas of interest are poetry and poetics, the literature of the long nineteenth century (British, American, and French), the literature of nonsense, formal and stylistic dimensions of writing, and the Anglo-American libretto.

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Lauren Working
BA (St Andrew's), MA (London), DPhil (Durham)
Derwent D/J/122
Tel: 01904 323334
lauren.working@york.ac.uk


Lecturer

Lauren Working is a Lecturer in Early Modern Literature. Her research focuses on Elizabethan and Jacobean literary sociability, politics, and empire, with an interest in material culture and Indigenous anthropology.  

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King's Manor K/112
Tel: 01904 323913 george.younge@york.ac.uk

George Younge
BA (King's College, London), MPhil, PhD (Cambridge)
Lecturer 

George Younge is a Lecturer in medieval literature. He convenes the Anglo-Saxon module and teaches on a range of other courses about the Middle Ages. George is especially interested in the cultural and linguistic impact of the Norman invasion of England in 1066.