Our faculty are all experts; often across a multitude of disciplines across the humanities and beyond. Their research-led teaching means that our students are in contact with and have access to academics working at the forefront of their subject areas.
Below you can find a list of faculty research interests grouped broadly by the subject area that each person teaches or is primarily based. You can find more information about our academics' published research by looking at some of their highlighted publications.
Sue Currell
American literature and culture 1890-1940; the emergence and production of twentieth-century mass culture; the thirties; Taylorism/Fordism in relation to identity, language and the self; eugenics and popular culture; selfhelp literature of the inter-war era. Go to Sue's faculty profile.
Doug Haynes
The influence of European Modernism on postmodern American writing; theories of humour, the relation between the visual and the literary; the novels of Thomas Pynchon. Go to Doug's faculty profile.
Daniel Kane
Modern and contemporary American poetry, and avant-garde writing, film and culture more generally; the New York Schools, including John Ashbery, Ted Berrigan, and Bernadette Mayer. Go to Daniel's faculty profile.
Maria Lauret
American feminist fiction and theory; the American 1960s; gender, language and migration; race and ethnicity;women's autobiography.Go to Maria's faculty profile.
Sara Jane Bailes
Contemporary experimental theatre practice; performance and historiography; comparative readings of the European and American avant garde; theatre, ideology and visual culture. Go to Sara Jane's faculty profile.
David Barnett
Fassbinder; metadrama; political and postdramatic theatre, primarily in the German and English-language traditions; Heiner Müller; Theoretical and practical aspects of drama. Go to David's faculty profile.
William McEvoy
Contemporary British and European theatre; site-specific performance; total theatre; theatre and ethics; theatre criticism and performativity Go to William's faculty profile.
Jason Price
Efficacy of Radical theatre performance practices; directing methods; popular theatre forms; performance as propaganda. Go to Jason's faculty profile.
Richard Adelman
Literature, culture and social philosophy between 1750 and 1900; Theories of labour, idleness and contemplation; German Idealism in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain; Scottish Enlightenment philosophy, in particular the 'Adam Smith Problem'. Go to Richard's faculty profile.
Gavin Ashenden
Twentieth-century myth and metaphysics; psychology, psychoanalysis and belief - G. Jung, Freud, William James, Charles Williams, C.S. Lewis and the Oxford Inklings. Go to Gavin's faculty profile.
Peter Boxall
Modernist fiction and drama; aesthetics and cultural politics, particularly in the work of Samuel Beckett; contemporary literature, especially the work of Don DeLillo; the utopian function in twentieth century writing. Go to Peter's faculty profile.
Sara Crangle
The twentieth-century, particularly high modernism, philosophy, and contemporary poetry. Go to Sara's faculty profile.
Alistair Davies
British modernism and postmodernism; twentieth-century British literature; European and British film; film and literature. Go to Alistair's faculty profile.
Denise DeCaires Narain
Postcolonial writing, particularly that of Africa and the Caribbean; feminist cultural theory; contemporary women's writing in English, particularly poetry. Go to Denise's faculty profile.
Katerina Deligiorgi
Kant; Hegel; value and normativity in ethics and aesthetics; the relation between literature and philosophy; practical reasoning; the concept of autonomy in moral philosophy; emotions and judgement. Go to Katerina's faculty profile.
Matthew Dimmock
Early Modern English Literature and History; Humanism; the works of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Kyd, Peele and Greene; literature of discovery, travel and colonialism; Restoration culture and the Glorious Revolution; the English and Dutch East India Companies and scientific advancement; early English Antiquarianism. Go to Matthew's faculty profile.
Andrew Hadfield
Renaissance, especially Republicanism; Spenser and sixteenth-century poetry; Shakespeare; Early Modern Ireland; Travel Writing; National Identity; Colonialism; Britain and Britishness; Literature and Politics in the English. Go to Andrew's faculty profile.
Margaret Healy
Renaissance literature and culture; the political stage; Shakespeare; Dekker; medicine and literature; theory of the body. Go to Margaret's faculty profile.
Tom Healy
Early modern literature and culture; Milton; Marvell;English Civil War Writing; Marlowe; Religion in the Cultural Imagination. Go to Tom's faculty profile.
Vicky Lebeau
Twentieth-century fiction; theories of childhood/democracy; literature and visual culture; feminism and theories of social identity; psychoanalytic theory; contemporary films and literature. Psychoanalysis and modern culture. Go to Vicky's faculty profile.
Steph Newell
West African literature; West African popular culture; postcolonial theory; the social history of reading in Africa. Go to Steph's faculty profile.
Rachel O'Connell
Victorian literature, especially the fin de siecle, and in queer, gender, and disability studies. Go to Rachel's faculty profile.
Catherine Packham
Eighteenth-century literature and philosophy; political economy and moral philosophy in the Scottish Enlightenment, especially Adam Smith; eighteenth century natural philosophy and physiology, including vitalism; Erasmus Darwin. Go to Catherine's faculty profile.
Chloe Porter
Early modern drama; Literature and visual culture; Early modern concepts of matter, form and abstraction; Anthropomorphism; Shakespeare; John Lyly; Early modern audiences and rehearsal. Go to Chloe's faculty profile.
Vincent Quinn
18th century literature; Irish literature; lesbian and gay studies. Go to Vincent's faculty profile.
John David Rhodes
Italian cinema; Pier Paolo Pasolini; cinema of the American and European avant gardes; contemporary European cinema; cinema and architecture, cities and place; queer filmmaking; widescreen cinema; Elizabeth Bowen; literature of the American South. Go to John's faculty profile.
Nicholas Royle
Modern literature and literary theory, especially deconstruction and Shakespeare. Go to Nicholas' faculty profile.
Martin Ryle
Nineteenth and twentieth century fiction; the politics of 'culture', with especial reference to education; topographical and travel writing, especially travel writing about Ireland. Go to Martin's faculty profile.
Minoli Salgado
Post-colonial literature and theory, particularly relating to South Asia and the South Asian diaspora; Rushdie, Ondaatje, migrancy; chaos and complexity. Go to Minoli's faculty profile.
Lindsay Smith
Victorian literature, painting and photography; visual perception in the Renaissance and the nineteenth century; feminist theory. Go to Lindsay's faculty profile.
Keston Sutherland
Twentieth-century and contemporary literature; late modernist and avant garde poetry; ideology of poetics; Marxism and literary theory; philosophy and philology. Go to Keston's faculty profile.
Jenny Bourne Taylor
Nineteenth-century literature; feminist epistemology and criticism; contemporary women's writing; nineteenth-century psychology; science and literature; literature and legal narrative. Go to Jenny's faculty profile.
Pam Thurschwell
The intersection of psychoanalysis, interest in the supernatural at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, and new technologies; Popular culture and film. Go to Pam's faculty profile.
Norman Vance
Nineteenth-century literature, religion and society; Irish literature; classical and biblical influences on British writing. Go to Norman's faculty profile.
Marcus Wood
Satire in the romantic period; the representation of slavery; colonial and post-colonial literature and theory; semiotics. Go to Marcus' faculty profile.
Tom Wright
Nineteenth-Century American and British literature and cultural history; Voice and oratory; Rhetoric; Non-Fiction Prose; Travel Writing. Go to Tom's faculty profile.
Lynne Cahill
Morphology, phonology and the lexicon; theoretical and computational linguistics. Go to Lynne's faculty profile.
Melanie Green
Syntax; formal linguistics; linguistic typology and African languages. Go to Melanie's faculty profile.
Lynne Murphy
Semantics and pragmatics; formal linguistics; psycholinguistics. Go to Lynne's faculty profile.
Roberta Piazza
Sociolinguistics and pragmatics (especially relating to the discourse of theatre and cinema and to forms of institutional discourse, eg academic discourse and the discourse of the media); nineteenth and twentieth century Italian literature. Go to Roberta's faculty profile.
Justyna Robinson
Sociolinguistics; history of English, and cognitive semantics. Go to Justyna's faculty profile.
Christian Uffmann
Phonology; historical linguistics; research methods and sociolinguistics. Go to Christian's faculty profile.