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Departmental officers

Professor Jennie Batchelor

Head of Department

Research interests:

  • Eighteenth Century and Romantic
  • Gender and Women's Studies
  • Visual and Material Culture

Professor Emilie Morin

Graduate Chair

Research interests:

  • Global and Postcolonial
  • Irish Literature and Irish Studies
  • Modern and Contemporary
  • Translation

Dr Alison O'Byrne

Deputy Head of Department: Learning and Teaching

Research interests:

  • Eighteenth Century and Romantic

Dr Namratha Rao

Chair of Undergraduate Teaching Committee

Research interests:

  • Poetry and Poetics
  • Renaissance

Professor Elizabeth Tyler

Deputy Head of Department: Research

Research interests:

  • Gender and Women's Studies
  • Global and Postcolonial
  • Histories of the Book
  • Medieval
  • Translation

Dr Hannah Roche

Research Chair

Research interests:

  • American Literature
  • Gender and Women's Studies
  • Modern and Contemporary
  • Poetry and Poetics
  • Queer Studies

Dr Ezra Horbury

Admissions Tutor

Research interests:

  • Gender and Women's Studies
  • Queer Studies
  • Renaissance

Dr Lola Boorman

Chair of Postgraduate Teaching Committee

Research interests:

  • American Literature
  • Film Studies
  • Modern and Contemporary

Dr Daniel Matore

Chair of Board of Examiners

Research interests:

  • American Literature
  • Classical Literature
  • Histories of the Book
  • Modern and Contemporary
  • Poetry and Poetics
  • Translation

Dr Jane Raisch

Chair of EDI & Athena Swan Committee

Research interests:

  • Classical Literature
  • Histories of the Book
  • Renaissance