People
Our academic staff
Staff in the School of Language, Literature, and Media are teachers, researchers and practitioners in their fields of expertise.
Our academics teach modules for our undergraduate and Masters courses, supervise our research degree students, and carry out research in their fields of expertise.
Academic members of staff
Dr Idrees Ahmad
Senior Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Claudia Alsdorf
Senior Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Research interests:
the use of poetry in language teaching; developing transferable skills for the job market; intensive language learning strategies including multisensory language training; poetry translation; condensation in subtitling and poetry
Professor Enam Al-Wer
Professor, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Research interests:
Variation and change (with special interest in Modern Arabic Dialects); Dialect/language contact; Dialectology and dialect geography; Formation of New Dialects; Gender differentiation in language; Language maintenance/shift; Multilingualism and code-switching
Nic Blower
Senior Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Research interests:
Documentary and fiction film practice
Martin Bright
Senior Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Dr Christopher Bundock
Senior Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Research interests:
Romanticism and Eighteenth-Century Literature; Gothic Literature, Art, and Culture; Literature and medicine; Affect and Emotions; Vitalism, the Life Sciences, and Aesthetic Form; Eighteenth-Century Vitalism and Life Sciences; History of Emotion and Feeling
Dr Andrew Burton
Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Dr James Canton
Senior Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
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
Daniela Carboni
Senior Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Research interests:
Fluency and critical reading skills; Use of storytelling in the classroom; Syllabus design and formative assessment; Sustainable Teaching, Inclusivity, Decolonising the curriculum.
Professor Shohini Chaudhuri
Professor, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Research interests:
notions of world cinema, intercultural and transnational cinema; film and human rights; gender and feminist theory; film theory and affect
Dan Chen
Senior Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Research interests:
Cooperative learning of interpreting skills; interpreter's knowledge acquisition
Dr Rebecca Clift
Senior Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Research interests:
Conversation Analysis with particular interests in; Grammar & Interaction; Territories of Knowledge; Reported Speech; Laughter in interaction; Embodiment in interaction; Indirect language
Professor Katharine Cockin
Professor, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
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; Literature and politics
Dr Tracey Costley
Senior Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Research interests:
English as Additional Language Learners (EAL); Academic Literacies; Student Identity in Writing at University;
Dr Antonio Da Silva
Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Research interests:
Cinema in Portuguese; World cinema; Portuguese language; Language teaching; Internet stardom and fandom; Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL); AI (Artificial Inteligence) & language learning/teaching
Matthew De Abaitua
Senior Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Research interests:
Artificial Intelligence narratives; Climate fiction; Speculative autofiction
Dr Beatriz De Paiva
Senior Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Research interests:
Intercultural and Interlanguage Pragmatics (pragmatic aspects of conversational interactions between native and non-native speakers); Pragmatics in language teaching; Pragmatics in translation
Dr Dominic Dean
Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Professor Fatima El Issawi
Professor, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Research interests:
Media and Democratization; Arab Media; Journalistic Practices and Models; Media Systems; Media in Transitions; Media Policy
Dr Tasos Giapoutzis
Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Research interests:
FIlm Aesthetics; Filmmaking Process; Nostalgia and Memory; Displacement and Migration
Professor Hannah Gibson
Professor, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Research interests:
Syntax-semantics interface; Bantu languages; African languages; Morphosyntax; Language contact; Language change; Language description; Variation; Dialectal variation; Contact languages
Dr Patricia Gillies
Senior Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
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; Representing UoE' special collection of Sophie Gaudier- Brzeska; Lecture at University of Warsaw, post-graduates, on Shakespeare's tragedies
Dr Christina Gkonou
Reader (R), School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Research interests:
Psychology of foreign language learning and teaching; Language teacher emotions, emotional labour and emotional capital; Language teacher identity and sense of belonging; Language teacher emotion regulation; Language teacher education; Social and emotional learning; Language learner and teacher wellbeing
Alina-Mihaela Isac
Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Dr Nasser Jabbari
Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Research interests:
Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL); Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL); Robot Assisted Language Learning (RALL); Digital Game-based Language Learning (DGBLL); Second Language Learning/Teaching/Assessment in Virtual and Augmented Reality Contexts
Dr Ella Jeffries
Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Research interests:
Sociolinguistics; Sociophonetics; Regional accents/dialects; Variation in language acquisition
Dr Eirini Konstantinidou
Senior Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Professor Elizabeth Kuti
Professor, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Research interests:
playwriting; eighteenth-century drama and literature
Dr Annecy Lax
Dean of Partnerships (Education) and Senior Lecturer (R), School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Dr Joseph Lovestrand
Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Jessie Mallinson
Head of Department - Senior Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Research interests:
Language Learning for HE students
Dr Nina Markl
Research Fellow (IADS), School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Dr Mary Mazzilli
Senior Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
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
Dr Neophytos Mitsigkas
Senior Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Research interests:
Using literature in the language classroom.; Language Teacher Education; Reader Response Theory (Reception Theory) and the reading of literature; Stylistics and the study of literary texts
Dr Daniel O'Brien
Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Research interests:
Delete Conference planning collective
Lexa Olivera-Smith
Senior Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Research interests:
Translation Studies; Audiovisual Translation; Literary Translation; Translation Pedagogy; Social Media in Teaching & Learning
Dr Angel Osle
Programme Coordinator - Senior Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Research interests:
L2 phonology; L2 intelligibility, comprehensibility and accentedness; Pronunciation instruction; Second Language Acquisition; Second Language Learning and Teaching
Dr Jak Peake
Senior Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Dr Holly Pester
Senior Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
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;
Ignazia Posadinu
Senior Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Research interests:
Blended Learning; Technology and language learning; Computer aided translation and interpreting; Audiovosual translation
Dr Charles Redmon
Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Dr Owen Robinson
Senior Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
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
Dr Natalia Rodriguez Vicente
Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Research interests:
Medical humanities; Cross-cultural pragmatics; Public Service Interpreting; Intercultural communication; Interdisciplinarity (Health & Linguistics); Inclusion of minoritised groups in research
Dr Karen Roehr-Brackin
Reader, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Research interests:
Additional or second language (L2) learning across the lifespan; Explicit and implicit knowledge and processes in L2 learning; Cognitive individual differences in L2 learning: language learning aptitude, working memory, cognitive style
Dr Joanna Rzepa
Senior Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Research interests:
modernism; comparative literature; literature and history; Holocaust writing; literature and religion; literary translation; twentieth-century poetry; WW1 and WW2 in literature
Dr Jordan Savage
Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Research interests:
avant-garde U.S. poetry; literatures of the American South-West; alternative knowledges; feminist reading and writing practices; environmental criticism;
Dr Sean Seeger
Head of School - Senior Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Research interests:
twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature and film; modernism; speculative fiction; utopian studies; queer studies
Dr Sarah Louise Smyth
Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Emma Stovell-Milligan
Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Felicia Stuhldreher
Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Professor Philip Terry
Professor, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Research interests:
Creative Writing; Experimental translation; Oulipo
Teresa Torres
Senior Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Research interests:
Hispanic Cinema; Language and culture
Dr Laetitia Vedrenne
Senior Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Research interests:
Gender and Power in French Culture; Language Curriculum Development and Language Assessment (French / English); Technology-Enhanced Language Learning (French / English); Translation (French / English); Interpreting (French / English)
Bevan Walsh
Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Yujia Wang
Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Research interests:
student-led learning in acquiring practical interpreting skills and professionalism;; Literary translation; Chinese and English Poem translation; Translating traditional and contemporary Chinese literature; film and drama subtitle translation
Jon Wright
Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Antonia Yanxi Wu
Senior Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Research interests:
Subtitling and Audiovisual Translation (AVT); Children's Literature Translation; Localisation; Transcreation
