Our academic staff

Executive Dean (Arts and Humanities) - Professor (R), Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: comparative literature; psychoanalysis; womens and gender studies; the arts and transitional justice

Senior Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: Romanticism and Eighteenth-Century Literature

Professor, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: women's suffrage; literature and history; archival studies; theatre history; First World War in literature; science fiction; animal studies; autobiography; Ellen Terry; Edith Craig; family history; Literature and Law; literature and place

Professor, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: Caribbean literatures, art and cinema; literature and place; border studies (especially concerning the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic); literature and the environment; migration and literature; human rights and literature; literature and the visual arts; contemporary poetry; literary and filmic rewritings, adaptations, translation and comparative studies; contemporary Caribbean and US relations (especially regarding the Dominican and Haitian Diasporas); the work of Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, Junot Diaz, and Edwidge Danticat; postcolonial studies; women writing; Italian cinema and literature

Senior Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: Theoretical approaches to literature and art history; Lacanian theory; narratives and apocalyptic figuration in Medieval beast literature; gender/genre implications; narrative construction in Old French epic and Medieval and Renaissance analogues; Troubadour poetry and parallels in narrative design of other genres; literary tradition and Thomas Hobbes Historia Ecclesiastica; issues in modernism; expression and configuration of light in the works of Stephane Mallarmé; Old Icelandic literature; the theory and practice of literary translation; Gaudier-Brzeska Archive; Gaudier-Brzeska Archive, Albert Sloman Library; Fantasy Literature and Medieval and Modernist contexts; Operas and Literary Context: Wagner

Professor, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: playwriting; eighteenth-century drama and literature

Professor, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: Confessions of a Cockney Temple Dancer

Professor, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Senior Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: Chinese and East-Asian Theatre; World and Global Theatres and Literatures; Postdramatic Theatres; Modernism/Postmodernism in drama and literature; Post-war British theatre and theatres in Europe; Contemporary Theatre Practices (directing and producing); Dramaturgy and Playwriting (PaR and Creative practices); Comparative Drama and Literature; Gender Studies and Women's writing

Professor, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: Romanticism and Romantic period literature and culture; Scottish literature; Late 18th Century British and American literature; 19th century British and American literature; Periodicals and magazines; Transatlantic studies; Ecocriticism; Borders and cultural encounters; Environmental literature; Romanticism; Walter Scott; Charles Lamb studies

Senior Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Senior Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: Literature and culture of the US South; William Faulkner; New Orleans; Post-war US fiction; African-American literature; Theory Bakhtin, reader-response, literary geography

Senior Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: modernism; comparative literature; literature and history; Holocaust writing; literature and religion; literary translation; twentieth-century poetry; WW1 and WW2 in literature

Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: avant-garde U.S. poetry; literatures of the American South-West; alternative knowledges; feminist reading and writing practices; environmental criticism;

Senior Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Senior Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: Documentary and fiction film practice

Professor, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: notions of world cinema, intercultural and transnational cinema; film and human rights; gender and feminist theory; film theory and affect

Professor, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: documentary; media practice and theory (creative practice / PaR); amateur cinema; gender and ethnicity in US literature, film, television; island representations; Oceania and the Pacific in film and photography; postcolonial cinemas

Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: FIlm Aesthetics; Filmmaking Process; Nostalgia and Memory; Displacement and Migration

Senior Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Professor, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Senior Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: Nature writing and the New Nature Writing movement; creative non-fiction; ecocriticism; psychogeography and the rural derive; writing on the Essex landscape; the writers of Essex; British travel writing on Arabia; travel writing and theory; the work of W.G. Sebald; the interface between colonial history and postcolonialism

Head of Department - Senior Lecturer (R), Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: Artificial Intelligence narratives; Climate fiction; Speculative autofiction

Professor, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: playwriting; eighteenth-century drama and literature

Senior Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: Feminist experimental writing (poetry and prose); Archive theory and forms of archive research; Innovative methods of practice-based research; Writing on and about and with dreams, hallucinations, daydreaming, voice, non-linguistic sounds, nonsense, body, sexuality, posture, radical politics;

Professor, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: Creative Writing; Experimental translation; Oulipo

Senior Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Professor, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: Media and Democratization; Arab Media; Journalistic Practices and Models; Media Systems; Media in Transitions; Media Policy

Senior Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: Parliamentary reporting, the media and democracy

Senior Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Professor, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: playwriting; eighteenth-century drama and literature

Dean of Partnerships (Education) and Senior Lecturer (R), Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Senior Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: Chinese and East-Asian Theatre; World and Global Theatres and Literatures; Postdramatic Theatres; Modernism/Postmodernism in drama and literature; Post-war British theatre and theatres in Europe; Contemporary Theatre Practices (directing and producing); Dramaturgy and Playwriting (PaR and Creative practices); Comparative Drama and Literature; Gender Studies and Women's writing

Professor, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: Confessions of a Cockney Temple Dancer

Shorthand Teacher, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Fixed Term Teacher, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: Ecodramaturgy

Fixed Term Teacher, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Fixed Term Teacher, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Ask me about: Speculative Fiction (dystopia, utopia, uchronia), Crime Fiction and Creative Writing Research interests: Ways to Communicate in Speculative Fiction

Fixed Term Teacher, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Ask me about: Community Engagement; Creative Writing and Pedagogy: the novel, short stories, life writing, auto-fiction; Critical Analysis: writing women, On Late Style, the evolution of the mother-daughter plot, writing place - Essex coastal communities; Early Literacy Intervention: the benefits of quality reading, speaking and writing intervention Research interests: Reading, Speaking and Writing Research

Fixed Term Teacher, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Fixed Term Teacher, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Emeritus Professor, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies

Emeritus Professor, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies

Emeritus Professor, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies

Emeritus Professor, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies

Research interests: US Literature

Emeritus Professor, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies

Research interests: Literature, history, and anthropology of the Caribbean; postcolonial studies; travel writing; literature and the environment;

Emeritus Professor, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies

Emeritus Professor, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies

Research interests: The history of literatures in English; history of the English language; phonology and verseform; representations of home in literature

Emeritus Professor, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies