Our staff
The NSC has a director, five permanent members of academic staff and one member of administrative staff. We are also fortunate to have a number of experienced associate staff who also provide teaching on some of our courses. You can find out more about who we are either by clicking on the relevant name below, or simply scrolling down the page.
The Director
Academic staff
Administrative staff
Associate staff
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Director Kjetil Myskja Email: nsc-director@york.ac.uk Kjetil Myskja is acting as NSC Director from August 2020, on leave from his position as first lector in English language at Volda University College. His Cand. Mag. is from the University of Trondheim (presently NTNU), with some courses from Volda University College, and his Cand. Phil. was awarded by Trondheim University. He also took a year’s studies at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. After completing his teaching qualifications, he primarily taught upper secondary school from 1985, and moved on to university level teaching in 1996. His teaching at university level has focused on language structure, both grammar and phonetics. While most of his teaching has been at Volda University College, in 2004-06, he taught a Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Educational Studies for Norwegian Teachers at Newcastle University. He was awarded førstelektor status in 2011. His academic interests are primarily focused on teaching and teacher training, but he has also worked with translation studies and practical translation, not least in literary translation and the translation of poetry. His engagement in the NSC is of long standing: he was a member of the NSC board from 2008 to 2015, working from 2011-15 as chair of the board. |
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Dr. Terry Hathaway Email: terry.hathaway@york.ac.uk |
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Email: gweno.williams@york.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0)1904 32 4611 Office: QUH/006 Research and teaching interests: early modern literature, particularly drama by women and Shakespeare; literature in English in the Norwegian curriculum; literature for teenagers and children; women’s writing and contemporary fiction. Publications include Literature for the English Classroom: Theory into Practice (Fagbokforlaget, 2013) co-edited with Anna Birketveit. Gweno’s connection with Norway has been long and happy; she first gave guest lectures on literature, drama and film at the NSC in 1983. She has enjoyed visiting a number of Norwegian Higher Education institutions over the years and is currently Visiting Professor at NTNU in Trondheim where she teaches on the Master’s programme. Gweno was awarded a British National Teaching Fellowship in 2002; she is committed to interactive learning as a key element in successful classroom pedagogy. She is passionate about the importance of literature and theatre in culture and society; she regularly supports the Bronte Society and Yorkshire Literature Festivals by interviewing contemporary writers and chairing literary events. Gweno is joint project co-ordinator in the two year (2018, 2019) Bergen-York Intercultural Exchange Project (BYIE). One of Gweno’s future ambitions is to swim in a fjord. |
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Email: meg.roughley@york.ac.uk BA & MA (University of British Columbia), DPhil (University of York) Current research interests: Race Relations in the UK; History of Racism; Modern/Post-Modern Literatures; Critical Theory; Children's Literature. Megan has taught in universities in Canada, Australia and in the UK in the areas of Literatures in English, Critical Theory, Media Studies and Women’s Studies. She has been with the NSC since 1998. In the Spring term, Megan also teaches an MA module on Children’s Literature for the |
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Email: lalita.murty@york.ac.uk I joined the Norwegian Study Centre in 2003 after completing my post doctoral research in spoken word recognition in Holland. My main research interests lie within the field of applied linguistics and range from World English to issues of intelligibility of accents. At the NSC I teach courses on Spoken Interaction, English as a World Language and Discourse Analysis. Lalita is involved in the two year (2018, 2019) Bergen-York Intercultural Exchange Project (BYIE). I come from India where I worked for 5 years before coming to the UK to study for a Ph.D. |
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Director of Studies Email: beck.sinar@york.ac.uk BA, MA, PhD, University of York Beck studied Linguistics with Literature at the University of York from 1997 until 2001, during which time she spent an academic year abroad teaching and conducting research into English as a Foreign Language. She remained at the University of York for a taught MA in linguistics, specialising in syntax and semantics, and then for a PhD on the history of English reflexive pronouns. Her PhD combines formal syntactic analysis, statistical methods, and techniques of corpus linguistics. Upon completion of her PhD in 2006, Beck joined the Norwegian Study Centre as a Lecturer (Teaching and Scholarship). She teaches mainly in the areas of language and linguistics, English literature and contemporary British culture. This includes topics in modern and historical sociolinguistics, language attitudes, identity, dialect representation on TV and in films and issues and policies within the English Education system. Both Beck's teaching and research reflect her interests in many different but related disciplines: history, sociology, education, culture and linguistics. Most recently she has branched into didactics and applied linguistics, presenting at a conference in Halden, Norway, on the use of Roald Dahl's children's novels to teach vocabulary to L1 and L2 speakers. This has been published in Acta Didactica Norge. Beck has recently taught an online undergraduate sociolinguistics module for NTNU and is currently involved in the two year (2018, 2019) Bergen-York Intercultural Exchange Project (BYIE). Beyond the NSC, Beck enjoys eating, drinking and being merry, and all things Harry Potter, Tolkien and Nintendo. You can find her on Facebook and Twitter: @beck_sinar. |
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Felicity Jones Email: felicity.jones@york.ac.uk Felicity is the office manager. She is responsible for departmental finances, purchasing, school visits, and many other “bits and bobs”. She organises accommodation for the YorkCourse students and together with the NSC Director and YorkCourse Coordinator administers the YorkCourse and MA courses. A music graduate of Bretton Hall College (Leeds University), she is a keen amateur musician. In her spare time she plays in several York amateur orchestras: York Guildhall Orchestra, Academy of St Olave's, York Symphony Orchestra, a couple of chamber ensembles and sings in the village choir. She and her husband Peter have two cats called Inca and Maya. |
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Email: michelle.rowland@york.ac.uk Michelle is the Short Course Administrator at the NSC. A graduate of Spanish, she studied at Trinity & All Saints College, Leeds (University of Leeds). She has worked in a variety of different administrative and customer service roles as well as working abroad. Originally from Sheffield, she moved to York in 2010 to work at the University, where she's held a variety of different support roles in various departments. Outside of work Michelle enjoys cycling, going to the theatre, attending creative workshops to learn new skills, screen printing and working towards an Access to HE Art & Design course which she hopes to complete in 2021. |
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Part-time tutor, Department of English and Related Literature Email: jbn4@york.ac.uk Dr Jonathan Brockbank has worked short-term contracts for the since 1985, lecturing and teaching on various modules including Approaches to Literature, Shakespeare and His Contemporaries, Romantics, Seventeenth Century & Victorians. He currently provides the seminars and tutorials for the English Literature component of our YorkCourse programm. He also takes our students on a special 'literary tour of York' related to the module he is teaching.
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Jon is a linguistics tutor and also sits on the Council of the Yorkshire Dialect Society; his research interests include Dialectology, Sociolinguistics, The History and Development of the English Language and Historical Linguistics – he is currently writing a book on the place-names of Sheffield.
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Professor Matthew Feldman teaches at the Norwegian Study Centre, and is a Visiting Professor at Richmond, the American International University in London. He works on cultural and political radicalism in the US and Europe since World War One. He has published more than 20 books and more than 40 book chapters or articles on these subjects, including monographs on Ezra Pound and Samuel Beckett. His second collection of essays is due out in 2019, and he is currently completing a book for Oxford University Press on Samuel Beckett’s interwar ‘Philosophy Notes’. He co-edits the Wiley-Blackwell’s online journal, Modern Ideologies and Faith and, with Professor Erik Tonning, edits two Bloomsbury book series, Historicizing Modernism and Modernist Archives. Matthew is also a specialist on fascist ideology and radical right extremism, and directs the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right. He has appeared as an expert witness in several high-profile cases involving neo-Nazi terrorists, and has appeared before various national and international bodies, including the Home Affairs Select Committee and the Council of Europe. His work has also extended to submitting evidence to the All-Party Parliamentary Groups on Anti-Semitism, and on Islamophobia, alongside consultation for various UK police constabularies; House of Lords and House of Commons debates; DCLG; the Ministry of Justice; the Home Office and other bodies. His recent policy engagement also focusses upon Islamoprejudice – notably in three of the first empirical reports on anti-Muslim hate crimes for Faith Matters (2013-5) – alongside contributions on post-‘Brexit’ racism and ‘Islamophobia’. He has also appeared in more than 700 radio and television programmes to discuss fascism, the radical right extremism, and self-activating terrorism.
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