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Staff Profiles

Name and Contact Details	Research Interests
Dr Rose Atfield Role: English Tutor Phone: 01895 266548 Email: rose.atfield@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building 143	Established undergraduate and post-graduate courses in creative writing at Brunel Contributor to numerous journals and conferences on creative writing Particularly interested in connections between literature and dance Published on contemporary Irish poets – Heaney, Boland, MCGuckian, Ni Dhomhnaill, Dorcey Particularly interested in feminist and psychological critical perspectives Contributor to Humanities Literature Insights (E Books)
Dr Richard Bramwell Role: Teaching Fellow in Postcolonial Literature Phone: 01895 267 937 Email: richard.bramwell@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building 137	Rap music, in particular UK Hip-Hop and Grime Contemporary black British literature and culture Poetry and the performance event Orality, technology, embodiment and the production of collective memory
Dr Jessica Cox Role: Lecturer Phone: 01895 266402 Email: jessica.cox@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building 140	Victorian sensation fiction The Brontës First-wave feminism Neo-Victorianism Gender and popular culture
Dr Elizabeth Evenden Role: Senior Lecturer Phone: 01895 267506 Email: elizabeth.evenden@brunel.ac.uk Office:	Early modern printing and the dissemination of printed texts in England, Portugal and Spain The patronage and financing of the book trade in early modern Europe The Reformation in print Printed editions of early modern drama (from the sixteenth to the 21st century) Bibliography, editorial theory and paleography
Mr David Fulton Role: Lecturer Phone: 01895 266552 Email: david.fulton@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building 122	British modernist poetry Thom Gunn American modernist poetry Creative writing (poetry)
Dr Sean Gaston Role: Reader in English Phone: 01895 267365 Email: sean.gaston@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building 127	Romanticism Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Literature Jane Austen and George Eliot Literature and Philosophy Jacques Derrida and the History of Philosophy
Professor Gretchen Gerzina Role: Professor in English Phone: 01895 265895 Email: gretchen.gerzina@brunel.ac.uk Office: 01895 265895
Dr Nick Hubble Role: English Subject Leader; Senior Lecturer; Deputy Director, Brunel Centre for Contemporary Writing Phone: 01895 266245 Email: nick.hubble@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building 142	Mass-Observation Modern and Contemporary British Literature (1900 – ) ‘New Humanities’ and Interdisciplinary Narrative Research Science Fiction and Fantasy
Dr Wendy Knepper Role: Lecturer Phone: 01895 267816 Email: wendy.knepper@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building 141	Global modernisms Postcolonial and world literatures: 20th century to contemporary Caribbean literatures Gender issues, women’s writing and feminist perspectives
Professor James Knowles Role: Professor of Renaissance Literature and Culture Deputy Head of School (REF Strategy) Phone: 01895 267332 Email: james.knowles@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building 135	Renaissance literature and culture, esp the court masque and civic pageantry, city comedy, revenge and political drama Caroline and civil war writing Literary and cultural geographies and orientalism, early modern Irish and Scottish cultures Patronage and collecting, esp libraries Manliness, sexualities and book culture including modern and contemporary gay writing and queer theory Book and manuscript culture, verse libels and literary circulations, censorship, and textual editing
Dr William (Bill) Leahy Role: Head of School Phone: 01895 266553 Email: William.leahy@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building 146	Shakespeare’s History plays Shakespeare Authorship Question Shakespeare’s Audience Elizabethan Processional literature
Dr Claire Lynch Role: Lecturer Phone: 01895 266475 Email: claire.lynch@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building 141	Irish Literature Autobiography and Life Writing Cyberculture and hypertexts Childhood and youth
Dr Anshuman Mondal Role: Reader in English Phone: 01895 267066 Email: anshuman.mondal@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building 126	Postcolonial studies: colonial and post-colonial literature, culture and history Literatures of South Asia, South Asian diaspora, Black and Asian British writing; modern Arabic fiction (in translation) Culture and Identity: race, ethnicity, nationalism, multiculturalism Religion, modernity and secularism, especially modern Islam, fundamentalism, and the politics of the Middle East Theory: Marxism, postcolonialism, cultural studies
Dr Jago Morrison Role: Senior Lecturer and Senior Tutor Phone: 01895 265827 Email: jago.morrison@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building 129	Contemporary Fiction 1945-present in a world context Postcolonial writing, especially Nigeria Chinua Achebe Contemporary Women's Writing Literary approaches to Ageing
Professor Will Self Role: Professor of Contemporary Thought Phone: Email: will.self@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building 134	Psychogeography: The psychological and political relationship between the built and the natural environment The impact of digital technology on cultural hegemont The future of the novel, its form and practise
Professor William Spurlin Role: Professor of English Phone: 01895 266234 Email: william.spurlin@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building 044	queer studies gender studies postcolonial studies (with an emphasis on gender, queer, and/or Africa) critical theory African or African-American studies comparative literature or translation (with an emphasis on gender or queer) diaspora/migration/border studies (with in an emphasis on gender or queer) 20th century/modernist/postmodernist literatures/cultures
Professor Philip Tew Role: Role: Professor of English (Post-1900 Literature); Deputy Head of School for Research (Students & Strategy); Director Brunel Centre for Contemporary Writing; Research Coordinator for English Phone: +44 (0)1895 267257 Email: philip.tew@brunel.ac.uk Office: GB138	The Anglo-American post-war experimental novel, including Paul Abelman, Alan Burns, B.S. Johnson, James Jones, Ann Quin, Kurt Vonnegut, and their contemporaries 20th and 21st century Anglophone fiction social and cultural theories of narrative, particularly social narrative exchange, and narrative intersubjectivity philosophical, theoretical, critical, aesthetic and meta-realist (critical and radical realist) interpretations and analysis of culture social gerontology, ageing and public policy
Dr Sara Trevisan Role: Lecturer in Renaissance and Early Modern English Literature Phone: 01895 266099 Email: sara.trevisan@brunel.ac.uk Office: GB128	Early modern royal and civic festivals Geography and landscape in literature Literature and the sea Literature and the visual arts English poetry and theatre (1500-1700)
Professor William Watkin Role: Professor Phone: 01895 266560 Email: william.watkin@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building 126	Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Literature and Philosophy Contemporary Continental Philosophy: Agamben, Badiou, Deleuze, Nancy Indifference
Dr Madeleine Wood Role: Teaching Fellow in English Phone: 01895 266744 Email: madeleine.wood@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building 137	Victorian literature The novel Psychoanalysis and trauma studies Comparative literatures Addiction narratives