SCHOOL OF ENGLISH - University of Kent

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ACADEMIC STAFF
The School of English
comprises 39 academic
staff who support teaching
and research across a
range of specialisms
within the discipline.
Staff research interests
Professor David Ayers:
Professor of Modernism
and Critical Theory
Anglo-American modernism;
European avant-garde; literature
and culture of the Americas; critical
theory and philosophy; Russian
Revolution and the Cold War.
www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/
profiles/ayers.html
Dr Jennie Batchelor: Reader in
18th-Century Studies
Eighteenth-century literature;
gender; women’s writing; fashion;
visual and material culture; influence
and intertextuality studies; 18th and
early 19th-century periodicals and
magazines.
www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/
profiles/batchelor.html
Dr Stella Bolaki: Lecturer in
American Literature
Multi-ethnic American literature; the
Bildungsroman; gender theory; life
writing and illness/disability, and
medical humanities.
www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/
profiles/bolaki.html
Professor Peter Brown:
Professor of Medieval English
Literature
Chaucer and other late-medieval
English writers; contextual aspects
of medieval culture, including
historiography; the visual arts;
dreams and space.
www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/
profiles/brown.html
Dr Norbert Bugeja: Lecturer in
Postcolonial Literature
Postcolonial literature; life writing
and critical discourses, including
contemporary Middle-Eastern selfnarrative;
Mediterranean cultural
discourses; materialist critique and
anglophone Mediterranean fiction.
www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/
profiles/bugeja.html
Dr Paddy Bullard: Lecturer in
18th-Century Studies
Eighteenth-century literature; the
Enlightenment; intellectual history;
rhetoric; politics and literature;
bibliography and book history;
textual criticism and editing.
www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/
profiles/bullard.html
Henry Claridge: Senior Lecturer
in English and American
Literature
American literature; realism in the
novel; literary criticism and critical
theory; American modernism
(especially poetry and fiction).
www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/
profiles/claridge.html
Dr Michael Collins: Lecturer in
American Literature
Antebellum American literature,
particularly in relation to questions
of how print and performance
culture interact; realist fiction and
cultural theory in the 19th century.
www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/
profiles/mcollins.html
Dr Rosanna Cox: Lecturer in
Early Modern Studies
Milton; 16th and 17th-century
literature and culture; gender;
political writing; intellectual history.
www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/
profiles/cox.html
Dr Vybarr Cregan-Reid: Lecturer
in English and American
Literature
Nineteenth-century literature and
culture, especially representations
of nature and the environment, time,
history, water and gender; Hardy,
Dickens; Forster; Kingsley; queer
theory; sublimity; ecology and
psychogeography.
www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/
profiles/creganreid.html
Patricia Debney: Senior
Lecturer in Creative Writing
Creative writing (prose poetry, short
fiction); auto/biography; translation
and adaptation; collaborative/
interdisciplinary work; feminist
theory; psychoanalytic theory.
www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/
profiles/debney.html