Staff profiles

Staff
Name	Job title	Expertise
Dr. David Ashford	Assistant Professor	Modernism, Cultural Geography, Philosophy, Poetry and Poetics
Dr. Joanna Chojnicka	Assistant Professor	Sociolinguistics, queer linguistics, language and gender, discourse studies, pragmatics, minority languages, language revitalization
Dr. Kees Dekker	Associate Professor	Old English literature and language, Middle English literature and language, History of the English Language
Iris van Dommele	Lecturer	English for Academic Purposes, Second language acquisition
Dr. Aline Douma	Lecturer	Middle English, late medieval English politics and literature, manuscript studies, palaeograpy and codicology
Dr. John Flood	Assistant Professor	Early modern literature
Carole Fuller, MA	Lecturer	English for academic purposes, second language acquisition, teaching English to speakers of other languages
Dr. Steven Gilbers	Assistant Professor	English linguistics \| Hip-hop \| African-American English
Seyit Gok	Lecturer	Curriculum Design, Materials Design and Development, Professional Development, English for Academic Purposes
Dr. Ann Hoag	Lecturer	Literature, Modernism and Women's Travel Writing
Dr. Angeliek van Hout	Associate Professor	First language acquisition; crosslinguistic variation; formal syntax and semantics
Dr. Hans Jansen	Lecturer; student advisor	Shakespeare; English Drama; History of English
Tim Kassenberg, MA	Lecturer
Yuliya Kazanova, PhD	Lecturer	English for Academic Purposes, 20-th century English novel, Graham Greene, Ukrainian contemporary fiction and poetry
Prof. Merel Keijzer	Professor of English Linguistics and English	Bilingualism, bilingual processing, first language attrition, bilingualism and cognitive aging, second language pedagogy
Dr. Remco Knooihuizen	Assistant Professor	Language variation and change; language contact; (laboratory) sociolinguistics; Germanic languages (English, Dutch, Frisian, Norwegian, Faroese)
prof. dr. Julia Kühn	Professor	The 'long' nineteenth century (esp. the novel, Empire, gender, popular culture), literary and poetic theory, the travel genre
Prof. Megan Leitch	Professor	Middle English literature, medieval romance, Arthurian literature, gender studies, the history of the emotions and of medicine, literature and the law
Dr. Ashley Maher	Assistant Professor	Interdisciplinary modernism, modern and contemporary British literature (specializing in the literature of the mid-twentieth century), literature and politics, the novel
Dr. Suzanne Manizza-Roszak	Assistant Professor	Twentieth- and twenty first-century literatures, children's and young adult literature, the gothic, diaspora studies, gender studies, ecocriticism and the more-than-human, multilingualism and translanguaging, creative writing
Dr. Pauline Mc Gonagle	Lecturer	The fiction and literary archives of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. The prose of Indian writer Kiran Nagarkar and satire in modern Indian literature. Postcolonial Studies in Literature; diaspora fiction and transnational writing; genetic criticism in literary archives. I am interested in critique of the short story form and in women writers' representation in public and educational institutional archives.
Dr. Tekla Mecsnober	Lecturer	Modern English literature, print culture, book history, periodicals, publishing studies, typography, literary modernism, nationalism, James Joyce, genre fiction, contemporary romance, fanfiction, retellings, translingual and transcultural fiction, multilingualism, language ideologies.
María Pilar Milagros Garcia, PhD	Lecturer
Dr. Spencer Morrison	Assistant Professor	Modern and contemporary US literature; literature and politics; the novel; literature and human rights; literary theory
Dr. Karin Olsen	Assistant Professor	Old English language and literature; Middle English language and literature; Old Norse literature and culture; early Irish literature and culture
Dr. Patrick Outhwaite	Assistant Professor	Middle English; medicine; heterodoxy; religious culture; Chaucer; Langland; travel writing; the global Middle Ages; book history
Greg Poarch, PhD	Assistant Professor	Second and third language acquisition, multilingual language processing, multilingualism and cognition, language teaching
dr. Barbara Postema	Lecturer	English for Academic Purposes; academic writing; comics studies; comics theory and comics history; popular genres; popular and visual culture; narrative theory; contemporary literature.
Marieke Reezigt, MA	Lecturer	English for Academic Purposes; language teaching; academic writing; (public) speaking; group work
Dr. Dorka Tamás	Lecturer	Post-war American literature, modernism, ecocriticism, witches and magic across literature and culture, gender and popular culture
Annelot Vaatstra, MA	Lecturer	Second language acquisition, second language teaching, English for academic purposes, phonetics and phonology, second language phonology, sociolinguistics

Emeritus Staff
Name	Job title	Expertise
Prof. Marjolijn Verspoor	Professor of English Language and English as a Second Language	English language and second language acquistion
Dr. Alasdair MacDonald	Professor of Medieval English Literature and Language	Medieval and Early Modern Scots Literature and Culture, Historical Linguistics
Dr. Henk Dragstra	Assistant Professor	Popular and mass culture of early modern England; early modern English drama; popular genealogies

PhD Students	Research	Supervisor
Naomi van Overveld, MA	Interwar British literature and the representation of masculinity	Dr David Ashford and Dr Ashley Maher
Margaret Finlay	Late medieval romance and the Hundred Years War	Dr Megan G. Leitch and Dr Patrick Outhwaite
Janine Rook, MSc	Bilingualism, neurocognition and cognitive aging	Prof dr Merel Keijzer, Dr. Gregory Poarch & Dr. Vincent DeLuca

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