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interests and literary strategies of English historiography from Bede to the English Reformation
and Tears and Saints, an investigation of 'religious enthusiasm' both in later medieval English culture
and among contemporary scholars of the medieval past. With David Griffith (Birmingham), Stephen
is co-­‐editing the second edition of Chaucer to Spenser (Wiley-­‐Blackwell, 2013). He is also preparing
'Meke Reverence and Devocyon': A Reader in Late Medieval English Religious Writing (Exeter), co-­edited
by Ryan Perry, which will be the first anthology of Middle English devotional texts since
Horstmann's Yorkshire Writers (1895-­‐6). He is co-­‐director of the Queen's Research Forum on
Translation and Cultural Encounter and is director of the Medieval Forum.
KIRK, Dr John *English and Scottish language
John specialises in corpus linguistics and dialectology (especially Scots and Hiberno-­‐English), with
interests in the history of English, syntax, pragmatics, and register and text-­‐type variation. He is a
compiler of the AHRB-­‐funded Ireland component of the International Corpus of English (ICE-­‐Ireland,
2007-­‐); a developer of the AHRB-­‐funded annotation system for SPICE-­‐Ireland (‘Systems of Pragmatic
Annotation in ICE-­‐Ireland’, completed 2011); and author of the User’s Guide for each of these. He co-­organised
annual symposia for the AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies on the language and
politics of the Gaeltacht and Scotstacht (2000-­‐2010), and edited eight proceedings volumes, in the
series Belfast Studies in Language, Culture and Politics. In 2008–09, he held an AHRC research
network grant for a project on multi-­‐lingual, pan-­‐British political poetry and song in the Age of
Revolution. His editing of two volumes of proceedings has led to a general editorship of a new series
on political poetry and song (Pickering & Chatto).
LAMB, Dr Edel *Renaissance literature and culture
Edel’s research and teaching focuses on Renaissance literature (including Shakespeare, Jonson, Marston,
Beaumont, Chapman and Field), Renaissance performance cultures and theatre practices and childhood
studies. She has published essays on boy actors and early children’s literature in Ben Jonson Journal (2008),
Literature Compass (2010) and The New Companion to Renaissance Literature and Culture (2010) and is the
author of Performing Childhood in the Early Modern Theatre: The Children’s Playing Companies (1599-­‐1613)
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). She is currently writing a monograph on early modern books for children,
Reading Children in Early Modern Culture.
LARRISSY, Professor Edward *Romantic and Modern Poetry
Ed’s work centres on two areas: Romantic poetry and twentieth-­‐century poetry (British, Irish and
American). Irish writing of both periods is a special interest. He is also fascinated by the relationship
between the two periods -­‐ in twentieth-­‐century constructions of Romanticism, and in the influence
of Romantic writing in the twentieth century. Yeats, the subject of a 1994 monograph Yeats the Poet:
The Measures of Difference, is only the most obvious case. His edited CUP volume, Romanticism and
Postmodernism (1999), addresses the most recent form of this relationship, and contains the only
substantial body of work on this subject. His monograph Blake and Modern Literature (2006), looks at
the influence of Blake on writers from Yeats, Joyce and Auden to Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan,
Salman Rushdie and Angela Carter. A further monograph from Edinburgh University Press, The Blind
and Blindness in Literature of the Romantic Period, was published in 2007.
LITVACK, Dr Leon *Nineteenth-­‐century and Canadian literature
Leon teaches 19th and 20th century literature, especially Victorian and Canadian writing, and current
research includes cultural studies and post-­‐colonial theory. He has authored John Mason Neale and
the Quest for Sobornost, Dombey and Son: An Annotated Bibliography and Literatures of the
Nineteenth Century: Romanticism to Victorianism and has edited Ireland in the Nineteenth Century:
Regional Identity. He has completed a book-­‐length critical guide to Dickens for Routledge and is
preparing the Clarenden Press edition of Our Mutual Friend.
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