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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; 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

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; Literature and politics

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; Representing UoE' special collection of Sophie Gaudier- Brzeska; Lecture at University of Warsaw, post-graduates, on Shakespeare's tragedies

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: 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

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)

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

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)

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

Research interests: Delete Conference planning collective

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

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)

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

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

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

Research interests: Decadent writing; The evolution of the weird tale and its numinous quality; Horror films and their commentary on trauma; Thomas Ligotti; Hallucinations

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