Staff profiles

All members of academic staff have individual profiles including information about their research interests, publications, responsibilities and contact details.

Academic staff
Dr Pascale Aebischer Early modern drama in performance; Shakespeare in performance; early modern theatre history; film adaptations; Mike Figgis, Alex Cox, Derek Jarman Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Emily Bernhard Jackson 19th-century literature (Romantic and Victorian); Lord Byron; literature and medicine; the embodied writer; composition and rhetoric Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Andy Brown Contemporary poetry; medical humanities; emergence theory and critical realism; ecopoetics Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Joseph Crawford British Romanticism, especially William Blake; Gothic fiction; the history of popular fiction; literature and politics in the long 18th century; occultism and conspiracy theory; the supernatural in literature Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Karen Edwards John Milton; early modern literature and science; Bible and literature Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Regenia Gagnier Victorian and modern literature and culture, especially fin de siècle; interdisciplinary studies, especially science and technology, digital humanities; world literatures, globalization, and cultural translation Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Gabriella Giannachi Performance, art and new media; documentation and archiving; digital humanities Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Marion Gibson Magic and witchcraft in literature; British paganism; identity politics Cornwall Campus
Dr Jo Gill Director of Education. American literature and culture; modern poetry; life writing; suburbs Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Nick Groom 18th century and Romanticism; English and British identity and environment; authenticity; Gothic; Tolkien Cornwall Campus
Dr Jason Hall Poetry and poetics; Victorian literature and culture; 19th-century science and technology Cornwall Campus
Dr Helen Hanson Film history; film style and technology; film sound and music; adaptation; gender issues Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Siân Harris Detective fiction; gender and genre; Canadian literature; children's literature Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Johanna Harris Renaissance literature; letter writing; 16th- and 17th-century religion and politics; women's writing; manuscripts Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Katie Hext Aestheticism; Modernist aesthetics; Henry James; 19th-century literature and philosophy Cornwall Campus
Dr Eddie Jones Medieval mystics; hermits and anchorites; late-medieval religious writing Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Nick Kaye Performance; post-war experimental arts; visual culture Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Joe Kember Film theory; early and silent cinema; Victorian and Edwardian popular and visual cultures; cities Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Tim Kendall Head of Department. Poetry and poetics; war writing (esp. WW1); archives Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Elliot Kendall Late medieval and early Tudor; aristocratic politics; exchange theory Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Song Hwee Lim Transnational Chinese cinema; East Asian cultural studies; gender, sexuality and queer representation Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr James Lyons Contemporary American film and television; American indie culture (especially film, comics, and music); theories of popular culture and taste Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Robert Mack Parody and satire; 18th-century literature; Judy Garland Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Gerald Maclean Early-modern English writing; East-West encounters; cultural studies; Ottoman and comparative imperialisms; travel writing; Turkish studies Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Kirsty Martin Literature and emotion; Modernism; happiness and the novel Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Nicholas McDowell Director of Research. Early-modern literature; literature and politics; literature and religion Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Andrew McRae Renaissance literature; literature and politics; literature and the environment Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Ellen McWilliams Contemporary women's fiction; the Bildungsroman; Irish, American, and Canadian literature; writing and diasporic identity Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Sinéad Moynihan 20th-century literature; American literature; Irish literature; race; transnationalism Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Ayesha Mukherjee Early-modern British literature and culture; famine; dearth; ecology; environment; Mughal India. Cornwall Campus
Dr Alex Murray Literature and place (esp. London); critical theory, Decadence Cornwall Campus
Professor Stephen Neale Silent cinema; film aesthetics; classical Hollywood cinema Streatham Campus, Exeter
Sam North Writing technique; pedagogy; modern novel; plot Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Edward Paleit Classical reception and translation; political thought and writing; Renaissance poetry, c1580-1650; English civil war writing Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Joanne Parker Medievalism; the historical novel; national identities and myths Cornwall Campus
Dr Maeve Pearson Children’s literature; Henry James; American literature; 19th-century; literary childhood studies Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Vike Martina Plock Literary modernism; medicine; James Joyce; interwar women's writing; consumer culture; fashion Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr John Plunkett Victorian literature; print media; popular visual culture and entertainment Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Henry Power 18th century; satire; novel (esp. Henry Fielding); classical reception; landscape Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Jane Poyner 20th-century and contemporary South African literature; postcolonial literature and theory Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Angelique Richardson Victorian Studies; medical humanities; evolutionary biology; sex and gender Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Andrew Rudd 18th-century and Romantic period literature; Romantic Orientalism; publishing and print culture; poetry of Robert Bloomfield Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Derek Ryan Virginia Woolf studies; Modernism; theory; animal studies Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Philip Schwyzer Shakespeare; memory; material culture; late medieval to early modern Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Victoria Sparey Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Jane Spencer Enlightenment and Romantic literature; the early novel; women’s writing; animals in literature Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Robert Stark Poetry and poetics; Modernism; Decadence Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Christopher Stokes Romantic poetry; literary theory; religion and literature; history of the self; history of the body Cornwall Campus
Professor Helen Taylor American literature and culture; women’s writing; the history and nature of women’s reading Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Corinna Wagner Medical humanities; the body and visual culture; gothic literature Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Paul Williams Comics and graphic novels; race and ethnicity; post-apocalyptic fictions Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Margaret Yoon 18th-century literature, medicine, and philosophy Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Paul Young Victorian literature and culture; 19th-century globalization and imperialism; cultural theory Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Patricia Zakreski Art, aesthetics and design history; Victorian literature and culture; women and work Streatham Campus, Exeter
Fixed-term staff
Dr Paul Bryant-Quinn Religion and devotion in medieval Wales; the Bardic Order in the 15th and 16th centuries; Welsh humanist literature; Wales and the Anglo‒Zulu War Streatham Campus, Exeter
Paul Dodgson Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Briony Frost Cornwall Campus
Dr Matthew Hayler Digital Humanities; Critical Theory; Cognitive and Neuroscience; Phenomenology; Philosophy of Technology; 20th- and 21st-century experimental fiction and poetry; Object Oriented Ontology; Science and Technology Studies Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Naomi Howell 12th-century romance; tombs and memorials in literature; temporality Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr James Kelly Romanticism; Gothic fiction; Irish and Scottish literature; rhetoric and oratory Cornwall Campus
Reina-Marie Loader Practice as research; documentary, docudrama and documemory; representing war trauma on film; memory in film; transmedia Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Rachel McGregor Early-modern literature (esp. Tudor); humanism; education Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Andrew McInnes Cornwall Campus
Dr Philip Robinson Early modern literature; London; the cultural properties, histories, and historiographies of early modern urban space Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Lisa Stead Archives; British silent cinema; intermediality; early twentieth-century women's writing Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Jill Sullivan 19th-century theatre; pantomime; melodrama; optical entertainments Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr John West 17th-century; literature and enthusiasm; succession writing Streatham Campus, Exeter
Visiting Professors
Professor Colin MacCabe Streatham Campus, Exeter
Honorary University Fellows
Dr Bob Lawson-Peebles Leverhulme Emeritus fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Alan Munton Honorary research fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Royal Literary Fund Fellows
Alyson Hallett Royal Literary Fund fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Michael Jecks Royal Literary Fund fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Administrative staff
Anna Dickinson Administrator (programme support) Streatham Campus, Exeter
Gwen Rumbold Senior administrator (programme support) Streatham Campus, Exeter
Beatrice Underwood Assistant programme administrator Cornwall Campus
Sabrina Webb Streatham Campus, Exeter
Shelly Windsor Programme administrator Cornwall Campus