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Academic Staff
| Name | Title | Areas of expertise | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashley, Abs | Lecturer | Abs.ashley@bristol.ac.uk | Anglophone literatures 1900-present; critical medical humanities; disability studies; queer theory and gender studies |
| Badcoe, Tamsin | Senior Lecturer | tamsin.badcoe@bristol.ac.uk | Early modern poetry and prose; literature and the environment; literary, visual, and material culture |
| Baden-Daintree, Anne | Lecturer | anne.baden-daintree@bristol.ac.uk | Medieval literature; contemporary poetry |
| Bateman, Mary | Lecturer in Medieval Literature | mary.bateman@bristol.ac.uk | Late medieval and early modern English literature and culture; manuscripts and material culture |
| Batt, Jennifer | Senior Lecturer | jennifer.batt@bristol.ac.uk | 18th-century poetry; women’s writing; labouring-class writing; book and printing history; periodicals |
| Bennett, Andrew | Professor | a.bennett@bristol.ac.uk | British and US literature 1900-the present; British Romantic poetry and poetics; literary theory; literature and suicide |
| Blades, Andrew | Senior Lecturer | a.blades@bristol.ac.uk | 20th century American literature; literature and anxiety; medical humanities; queer writing; HIV/AIDS literature |
| Burton, Edson | Lecturer | eb17402@bristol.ac.uk | English Literature and Community Engagement: history and creative practice |
| Calvert, Ian | Lecturer in Eighteenth Century Literature | egicc@bristol.ac.uk | 17th and 18th-century English literature; English/Classics literary relations 1550-1830 |
| Chami, Dima | Research Associate in West African Literature | dima.chami@bristol.ac.uk | African literature and migration studies; literary activism in Nigeria |
| Cheeke, Stephen | Senior Lecturer | s.h.cheeke@bristol.ac.uk | Literature and art; nineteenth-century poetry; Aestheticism; Decadence and the fin-de-siècle |
| Codsi, Stephanie | Lecturer in Literature 1500-1800 | sc7270@bristol.ac.uk | Romantic and gothic literature; British 1790s radical literature; William Blake |
| Cordo Russo, Luciana | Newton International Fellow | hk21488@bristol.ac.uk | Medieval Welsh and French literature; translation theory and practice |
| Crowley, Emma | Lecturer | emma.crowley@bristol.ac.uk | Contemporary literature and culture; comparative literature; world literary studies |
| Dawson, Lesel | Associate Professor in Literature and Culture | lesel.dawson@bristol.ac.uk | Early Modern English literature (particularly drama); grief, loss, mourning and creativity |
| De Hailes, Steve | Lecturer | s.dehailes@bristol.ac.uk | Medieval and Early Modern literature; Arthurian romance literature; faery |
| Delaney, Kelsi | Lecturer in Global Anglophone Literatures | kelsi.delaney@bristol.ac.uk | Anglophone Caribbean poetry; decolonial poetry studies |
| Derbyshire, Emily | Lecturer | emily.derbyshire@bristol.ac.uk | Liberal Arts: Early modern literature and culture; space and place |
| Edney, Sue | Lecturer | sue.edney@bristol.ac.uk | English Literature and Community Engagement; Romantic and Victorian literature; Ecocriticism and environmental justice |
| Ephgrave, Siân | Lecturer | se1675@bristol.ac.uk | English Literature and Community Engagement: English pedagogy, inclusion and wellbeing |
| Etter, Carrie | Lecturer in Creative Writing (Poetry) | carrie.etter@bristol.ac.uk | Creative writing: poetry and short fiction; ecopoetry and environmental crisis; poetry and classical mythology |
| Farr-Cox, Jess | Lecturer | epjpd@bristol.ac.uk | Foundation in Arts and Social Sciences: Lifelong learning and widening participation; academic skills; literature in relationship to gender, film, animals, land and violence |
| Ferris, Natalie | Lecturer in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Women's Writing | n.ferris@bristol.ac.uk | 20th and 21st-century women's writing; gender and creativity; poetry and visual culture; experimental form |
| Forbes, Erin | Senior Lecturer in African American Literature | e.forbes@bristol.ac.uk | African American and U.S. literature of the long 19th century |
| Fulton, Helen | Chair in Medieval Literature | helen.fulton@bristol.ac.uk | Medieval literatures and languages; medieval Welsh and Irish literature; Arthurian literature |
| Gallwey, April | Senior Lecturer | april.gallwey@bristol.ac.uk | English Literature and Community Engagement: Post-war class and gender relations; oral history; single motherhood |
| Gao, Tim | Lecturer in Victorian Literature | timothy.gao@bristol.ac.uk | Victorian literature; the novel; virtual reality; narratology |
| Gavurin, Billie | Lecturer | bg13358@bristol.ac.uk | Late-Victorian and early 20th century literature and culture; evolutionary theory; animal-human hybrids |
| Gill, Josie | Associate Professor in Black British Writing | josie.gill@bristol.ac.uk | Black British, Caribbean and African American contemporary literature; literature and science |
| Gourd, Elizabeth | Lecturer | eg17404@bristol.ac.uk | 20th century literature and classical reception; grief, trauma and memory studies |
| Gournet, Marie-Annick | Associate Professor in Lifelong Learning and Inclusive Pedagogy | marie-annick.gournet@bristol.ac.uk | English Literature and Community Engagement |
| Hanaway-Oakley, Cleo | Lecturer in Liberal Arts and English | cleo.hanaway-oakley@bristol.ac.uk | James Joyce; Literature and film; Literature and science; Literature and the senses; Modernism |
| Harkes, Rachael | Postdoctoral Research Associate | rachael.harkes@bristol.ac.uk | |
| Harris, Rob | Lecturer | Rob.Harris@bristol.ac.uk | English Poetry and Painting, 1874-1914 |
| Harris, Siân | Associate Professor in Literature and Learning | sian.harris@bristol.ac.uk | 20th and 21st-century literature; Canadian literature; women's writing; gender and genre; detective fiction |
| Harrison, James | Lecturer | jh17600@bristol.ac.uk | Victorian poetry and criticism; aestheticism |
| Holberton, Ed | Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Literature | edward.holberton@bristol.ac.uk | Early Modern English and American literature and the Atlantic world; Civil War and Restoration literature |
| Hume, Cathy | Senior Lecturer | cathy.hume@bristol.ac.uk | Middle English literature; Chaucer and biblical literature; literature and ethics |
| James, Stephen | Senior Lecturer | stephen.james@bristol.ac.uk | Modern and contemporary poetry; Charles Dickens; poetry and landscape; refrains and repetition |
| Kahora, Billy | Lecturer in Creative and Professional Writing | billy.kahora@bristol.ac.uk | Creative Writing: the short story and creative non-fiction |
| Kalisch, Michael | Leverhulme Early Career Fellow | michael.kalisch@bristol.ac.uk | 20th and 21st-century American prose; Jewish American writing; psychoanalysis; sound/radio studies; publishing studies |
| Karatas, Melek | Research Associate | melek.karatas@bristol.ac.uk | Medieval (French) literature, visual culture, book history (especially manuscript illumination), women's art and writing in the Middle Ages |
| Kennedy, Kathleen | British Academy Global Professor | kathleen.kennedy@bristol.ac.uk | Medieval English history and the history of the book |
| Kennedy-Epstein, Rowena | Associate Professor in Gender and Women's Writing | r.kennedy-epstein@bristol.ac.uk | 20th and 21st-century women writers; American literature; the avant-garde; transnational modernism; the archive; feminism |
| Kiguru, Doseline | Lecturer in World Literatures in English | doseline.kiguru@bristol.ac.uk | African literature and postcolonial literary production |
| Krishnan, Madhu | Professor of African, World and Comparative Literatures | madhu.krishnan@bristol.ac.uk | 20th and 21st-century postcolonial literature; African literature; literature and politics; prize culture |
| Lam, Deborah | Lecturer | deborah.lam@bristol.ac.uk | Romantic and Victorian literature, art and aesthetics |
| Lampitt, Matthew | Postdoctoral Research Associate | matt.lampitt@bristol.ac.uk | Multilingual literary cultures of the medieval Welsh Marches |
| Laurent, Amy | Senior Lecturer | amy.laurent@bristol.ac.uk | Foundation in Arts and Social Sciences: Lifelong Learning and Widening Participation |
| Lee, John | Senior Lecturer | j.lee@bristol.ac.uk | English Renaissance drama; Shakespeare; Literature and Medicine |
| Lock, Pam | Lecturer | pam.lock@bristol.ac.uk | English Literature and Community Engagement: 19th-century literature; the history of drink and drinking |
| Malay, Michael | Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Environmental Humanities | m.malay@bristol.ac.uk | 20th-century literature; poetry and environmental humanities |
| Marland, Pippa | Lecturer | pm0035@bristol.ac.uk | Modern and contemporary literature; environmental humanities |
| Masud, Noreen | Lecturer | noreen.masud@bristol.ac.uk | Modern and contemporary poetry; short-form writing 1800-present; nonsense literature; literature and landscape; affect theory |
| Matthews, Samantha | Associate Professor in Nineteenth Century Literature | s.matthews@bristol.ac.uk | Romantic and Victorian literature; book history |
| Maude, Ulrika | Professor of Modern Literature | ulrika.maude@bristol.ac.uk | Post-war English and American fiction; Modernism; literature and medicine; literature and technology; embodiment; Samuel Beckett |
| McClune, Kate | Senior Lecturer | Kate.McClune@bristol.ac.uk | 15th and 16th-century Scottish and English manuscript culture; Arthurian literature; older Scots literature |
| McTague, John | Associate Professor in Eighteenth Century Studies | john.mctague@bristol.ac.uk | Restoration and early eighteenth-century literature; the history of historiography; history of the book and analytical bibliography |
| Moor, Jessica | Lecturer in Creative Writing | qn23029@bristol.ac.uk | Creative writing: the novel |
| Murray, Rachel | Lecturer in Literature and the Environment | rachel.e.murray@bristol.ac.uk | Modernist literature, animal studies, and the environment |
| Nadin, Jo | Associate Professor in Creative Writing | joanna.nadin@bristol.ac.uk | Creative Writing: fiction and the formation of 'self'; class and the novel; writing for young readers |
| O’Brien, Sean | Lecturer in 20th and 21st Century American Literature | ea23667@bristol.ac.uk | Modern and contemporary literature; American studies; Marxism and Economic Humanities |
| Parker, Emma | Lecturer in Literature and Gender | emma.parker@bristol.ac.uk | 20th- and 21st-century autobiographical writing; afterlives of empire |
| Passey, Joan | Senior Lecturer | joan.passey@bristol.ac.uk | Victorian literature and culture; transhistorical, transatlantic Gothic 18th-century-present; the blue humanities |
| Pite, Ralph | Professor in English | Ralph.Pite@bristol.ac.uk | Contemporary poetry; Romantic literature; responses to Dante; Thomas Hardy; Victorian fiction; writing and the environment |
| Publicover, Laurence | Senior Lecturer | l.publicover@bristol.ac.uk | Early modern drama; literary and dramatic geography; the sea in literature and culture; tragedy and theories of tragedy |
| Puri, Tara | Senior Lecturer | t.puri@bristol.ac.uk | Victorian literature; late-19th and early 20th-century Indian literature; women' s writing and history; periodicals and print culture |
| Putter, Ad | Professor of Early Modern English Literature | A.D.Putter@bristol.ac.uk | Middle English literature and language; Arthurian romance; comparative medieval literature medieval romance; editing |
| Renaud, Leighan | Lecturer in Caribbean Literature | leighan.renaud@bristol.ac.uk | 20th and 21st-century Caribbean fiction; Black Atlantic literature; Black women's writing |
| Savage, Craig | Deputy Director of ELCE | craig.savage@bristol.ac.uk | Lifelong learning; 19th- and 20th-century American literature; poetry; Bob Dylan |
| Savvas, Theo | Senior Lecturer in English Literature | theo.savvas@bristol.ac.uk |
American literature; postmodernist literature; history and fiction; vegetarianism and veganism in literature; Critical Animal Studies |
| Skinazi, Karen | Associate Professor of Literature and Culture | karen.skinazi@bristol.ac.uk | Liberal Arts: Late-19th-21st-century Jewish, multiethnic, American, and women’s literature and culture |
| Soper, Harriet | Lecturer in Medieval Literature | harriet.soper@bristol.ac.uk | Early Medieval Literature and Culture; Old English; ecological theory and the nonhuman |
| Sperlinger, Tom | Professor of Literature and Engaged Pedagogy | Tom.Sperlinger@bristol.ac.uk | Lifelong learning, literary study, and civic engagement; creative non-fiction, journalism, and poetry |
| Stadtler, Florian | Senior Lecturer in Literature and Migration | florian.stadtler@bristol.ac.uk | South Asian Literature, Film and History; Salman Rushdie; Migration and Diaspora Studies; Black British Literature; Postcolonial Literature and Theory |
| Steggle, Matt | Chair of Early Modern Literature | ms17027@bristol.ac.uk | Early modern literature and drama; digital humanities; scholarly editing and lost plays |
| Tether, Leah | Professor of Medieval Literature and Publishing | leah.tether@bristol.ac.uk | Medieval French and English literature; digital humanities; history of the book; publishing studies |
| Thebo, Mimi | Reader in Creative Writing | m.thebo@bristol.ac.uk | Creative writing: Children's Literature; ecocriticism; issues of representation, including postcolonial theory |
| Vaccarella, Maria | Senior Lecturer in Medical Humanities | maria.vaccarella@bristol.ac.uk | Contemporary literature; critical disability studies; literature and medicine; medical humanities |
| Verweij, Sebastiaan | Senior Lecturer in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance English Literature | s.verweij@bristol.ac.uk | Later medieval and early modern literature; Scottish literature (1400-1700); book history and bibliography; editing; digital humanities |
| Wootten, William | Senior Lecturer | william.wootten@bristol.ac.uk | Modern and contemporary poetry; the creative writing of poetry; poetics and the psychology of verse |
| Wright, Jane | Senior Lecturer | jane.wright@bristol.ac.uk | 19th-century literature; Victorian poetry and literary criticism; Tennyson, Clough, Arnold, Hopkins |
Honorary and Emeritus Staff
| Name | Title | |
|---|---|---|
| Ailes, Adrian | Honorary Research Associate | Adrian.Ailes@bristol.ac.uk |
| Atkin, Tamara | Honorary Senior Research Fellow | nd21943@bristol.ac.uk |
| Bolton, Timothy | Visiting Senior Research Fellow | sf21721@bristol.ac.uk |
| Cartwright, Penny | Honorary Research Associate | pc16172@bristol.ac.uk |
| Clare, Janet | Honorary Professor | janet.clare@bristol.ac.uk |
| Clarke, John | Visiting Research Fellow | ba23352@bristol.ac.uk |
| Collins, Georgina | Honorary Senior Reseach Associate | kq19509@bristol.ac.uk |
| Derry, Stephen | Honorary Teaching Associate | emsgxd@bristol.ac.uk |
| Foster Evans, Dylan | Honorary Research Fellow | ut22506@bristol.ac.uk |
| Harris, Rob | Honorary Research Associate | rob.harris@bristol.ac.uk |
| Herbert McAvoy, Liz | Honorary Senior Research Fellow | liz.herbertmcavoy@bristol.ac.uk |
| Hill, Sarah | Visiting Research Fellow | df18196@bristol.ac.uk |
| Hopkins, David | Senior Research Fellow and Emeritus Professor of English | David.Hopkins@bristol.ac.uk |
| Jones, Hester | Honorary Research Fellow | egshej@bristol.ac.uk |
| Karlin, Daniel | Senior Research Fellow and Emeritus Professor in English | Daniel.Karlin@bristol.ac.uk |
| Levelt, Sjoerd | Honorary Senior Research Associate | sl18681@bristol.ac.uk |
| Loden, Sofia | Honorary Research Fellow | sofia.loden@bristol.ac.uk |
| McDowell, Nicholas | Visiting Research Fellow | vo23354@bristol.ac.uk |
| Meale, Carol | Senior Research Fellow in English | c.m.meale@bristol.ac.uk |
| Phillips, Rebecca | Honorary Research Fellow | xn19103@bristol.ac.uk |
| Price, Dorothy | Honorary Senior Research Fellow | d.price@bristol.ac.uk |
| Punter, David | Emeritus Professor | david.punter@bristol.ac.uk |
| Ryan, Xander | Honorary Research Associate | ar16211@bristol.ac.uk |
| Smallwood, Philip | Honorary Senior Teaching Associate | philip.smallwood@bristol.ac.uk |
| Smith, Victoria Ellen | Visiting Senior Research Associate, Centre For Black Humanities | v.e.smith@bristol.ac.uk |
| Stokes, Myra | Visiting Research Fellow | egmfks@bristol.ac.uk |
| Webb, Tim | Senior Research Fellow and Emeritus Professor in English | tim.webb@bristol.ac.uk |
| Whalley, Bethany | Honorary Research Fellow | bethany.whalley@bristol.ac.uk |
Other Teaching Staff