Summary of Staff Research Interests

Adebayo, Diran
novels; short fiction; cultural criticism; stories and films for television and radio; documentaries

Bainbridge, Simon
Romanticism; the relationship between the writing of the Romantic period and its historical contexts; the cultural responses to the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars; the work and afterlife of the poet Byron

Baker, Brian
American literature, twentieth-century literature, science fiction, science and literature, popular culture, representations of masculinity in fiction and film, London in fiction and film

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Bradley, Arthur
continental philosophy; philosophy of religion and contemporary literature; the philosophy of technology.

Bushell, Sally
British Romanticism; Wordsworth; The Lake District; Place and Space in Literary Texts; Textual Criticism; Draft Materials and Process.

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Carruthers, Jo
My research focuses on the English Bible and literature; English national identity; Jewish ritual and diasporic identities (focusing on the festival of Purim); and theories and practices of place.

Corbett, Sarah
poetry; film scripts; verse novel; children's novel

Draycott, Jane
poetry; the creation of audio-montages

Eagleton, Terry
literary theory; cultural theory; the meaning of literature; ideology; the political history of Ireland; Marxism; Catholicism

Elliott, Kamilla
literature and the rise of mass picture identification literature and film adaptations and adaptation theory

Farish, Helen
poetry

Findlay, Alison
Shakespeare; Performance and Theatre History; Early Modern Drama; Early Quakers; Early Modern Women's Writing

Greaney, Michael
Joseph Conrad; modern and contemporary British fiction; insomnia in contemporary fiction and film

Green, George
The West and the Western. Ireland, the Troubles and Irish Fiction. The Modern Thriller. Auto-Biography and Biography.

Hanley, Keith
Nineteenth-century interdisciplinary studies, especially Romantic anti-capitalism, travel, cultural tourism, the visual arts and sacred geographies including their representation in Wordsworth, Ruskin, Newman, Cobbett and Carlyle.

Hinds, Hilary
early Quakerism; twentieth-century women's writing and feminist theory

Horsley, Lee
detective fiction and crime writing; popular genres; literature and politics; satire; the pedagogy of English and Creative Writing

Maitland, Sara
novels; short stories; radio plays; film scripts; non-fiction, non-fiction, from gardening history to feminist theology

McCabe, Brian
poetry; short stories; novels

Moore, Lindsey
Postcolonial, particularly Arab, South Asian and British-Asian literatures; Postcolonial women's writing; Arab women's literature and visual media in English, French and translation; Representations of Arab Muslim women in literature and film; Modernist expatriate writers.

Mort, Graham
Contemporary fiction and poetry, emergent African writing, literatures of migration and diaspora, pedgagogy of creative writing, eLearning, literature development design

Oakley-Brown, Liz
early modern identity politics; skin and corporeal surfaces; the cultural politics of Elizabethan translation; martial subjectivities in Tudor England

O'Callaghan, Conor
poetry; non-fiction; comic prose memoirs

Pearce, Lynne
feminist literary and cultural theory; 'the politics of reading'; feminist re-scriptings of romance; national / regional literature(s) and identities within the UK

Pinkney, Tony
William Morris and utopianism; aspects of modernist literature,in particular T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence

Pow, Tom
poetry; radio plays; picture books; young adult novels; travel books; poetic biography; filmmaking

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Rycroft, Eleanor
Early Modern Literature, Early Modern Drama, Shakespeare, Feminism, Gender, Masculinity and Femininity, Embodiment, Critical Theory.

Schad, John
Victorian literature; Modernism; life-writing; place-writing; literary theory; critical-creative writing; religion and literature; experimental criticism.

Sharpe, Tony
modern British and American literature, especially poetry; Vladimir Nabokov; T.S. Eliot; Wallace Stevens; W.H. Auden, in particular Auden's use of place-names and locations in the North of England

Spooner, Catherine
post-1830 literature and culture; Gothic literature, film and popular culture; fashion and dress in literature; the relationship between fashion discourses and constructions of the body in Gothic texts; ghosts and location; twenty-first century Gothic

Steel, Jayne
screen writing; women writers from the north of Ireland; modern literary theories and film theories, especially those following psychoanalytical and postmodern perspectives

Twycross, Meg
medieval English theatre; medieval iconography; medieval performance conditions; pageant waggons and theatrical processions

Wandor, Michelene
drama, poetry, fiction, music