Our academic staff

Dr Idrees Ahmad

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

Paul Anderson

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

Research interests: UK politics; UK social history; Russian history; Chinese history; George Orwell; history of journalism

Professor Sanja Bahun

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

Nic Blower

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

Research interests: Documentary and fiction film practice

Dr Christopher Bundock

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

Research interests: Romanticism and Eighteenth-Century Literature

Dr James Canton

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

Professor Shohini Chaudhuri

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 Katharine Cockin

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

Matthew De Abaitua

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

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

Dr Fatima El Issawi

Reader, 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

Tim Fenton

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

Research interests: Parliamentary reporting, the media and democracy

Professor Maria Cristina Fumagalli

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

Professor Jeffrey Geiger

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

Dr Tasos Giapoutzis

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

Dr Patricia Gillies

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

Dr Liam Jarvis

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

Research interests: Immersive Performance and Participation; Devising and Contemporary Performance-making; Experimental Neuroscience, Selfhood, Embodiment and Body Transfer Illusions in Performance; Science-art Interdisciplinarity; Intermediality, Interactivity, New Technologies and the Digital Humanities; Theatre in the Dark; Theatre Directing; Applied performance, affect and wellbeing

Dr Eirini Konstantinidou

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

Professor Elizabeth Kuti

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

Research interests: playwriting; eighteenth-century drama and literature

Dr Annecy Lax

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

Professor Jonathan Lichtenstein

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

Research interests: Confessions of a Cockney Temple Dancer

Professor Karin Littau

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

Research interests: literature and film; comparative media and transmedia; adaptation and translation; technology and digital media; book history and history of reading; interspecies communication and eco-translation; extinction studies and climate fiction

Dr Mary Mazzilli

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

Dr Daniel O'Brien

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

Professor Susan Oliver

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

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

Dr Jak Peake

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

Dr Holly Pester

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;

Dr Owen Robinson

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

Dr Joanna Rzepa

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

Dr Jordan Savage

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;

Dr Sean Seeger

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

Dr Sarah Smyth

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

Professor Philip Terry

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

Research interests: Creative Writing; Experimental translation; Oulipo

Bevan Walsh

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

Dr Nora Williams

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

Research interests: Shakespeare; Early modern drama; Sexual violence in performance; Dramaturgy

Jon Wright

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

Sarah Brown

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

Professor Gordon Brotherston

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

Prof John Gilles

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

Prof John Gillies

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

Professor Richard Gray

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

Research interests: US Literature

Professor Peter Hulme

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;

Professor Angela Livingstone

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

Prof Christopher McCully

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

Professor Jonathan White

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