Staff profiles
Linguistics
First name
Joanna
Function
Assistant Professor
Expertise
Discourse, Gender and Sexuality; Sociolinguistics; Queer Linguistics; Multilingualism and Minority Languages
First name
Steven
Function
Assistant Professor (English linguistics)
Expertise
English linguistics | Hip-hop | African-American English
Disciplines
First name
Merel
Function
Professor of English Linguistics and English as a Second Language (ESL) / Rosalind Franklin Fellow
Expertise
Bilingualism, Bilingual processing, first language attrition, bilingualism and cognitive aging, second language pedagogy
Disciplines
First name
Remco
Function
Assistant Professor in English Language and Linguistics
Expertise
Sociolinguistics
Sociophonetics
Language variation
Language change
Language contact
Language, gender and sexuality
Scandinavian languages (Norwegian, Faroese)
Sociophonetics
Language variation
Language change
Language contact
Language, gender and sexuality
Scandinavian languages (Norwegian, Faroese)
Disciplines
First name
Greg
Function
Associate Professor of English Linguistics and English as a Second Language (ESL)
Expertise
Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Psycholinguistics, Bilingualism & Cognition, Executive Function
Disciplines
Modern Literature
First name
David
Expertise
Modernism, Post-Modernism, the Enlightenment, Theory and Philosophy, Post-Humanism, Imperialism, Cultural Geography, Poetry, Poetics and Publishing
Disciplines
First name
John
Function
Assistant Professor
Expertise
Early modern and medieval Anglophone literature and culture. Christianity in English literature.
Disciplines
First name
Ann Catherine
Function
Assistant Professor
Expertise
Literature, Modernism, Women's Travel Writing, and Migrant Fiction
First name
Julia
Expertise
(long) nineteenth-century English literature and culture (esp. novel, gender, popularity, Empire, realism, Anglo-German relations); travel writing (often with a China/Hong Kong focus, theories of travel/ writing); literary and poetic theory (genre, realism, geopoetics)
First name
Ashley
Function
Assistant Professor
Expertise
interdisciplinary modernism, modern and contemporary British literature (specializing in the literature of the mid-twentieth century), literature and politics, environmental humanities, the novel
First name
Suzanne
Function
Universitair Docent (tenured)
Expertise
Twentieth- and twenty-first-century literatures; children's and young adult literature; the gothic; diaspora studies; gender studies; rewritings and adaptations; ecocriticism and the more-than-human; multilingualism and translanguaging; creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry writing; literature and creative writing pedagogy
Disciplines
First name
Pauline
Expertise
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 related to former British colonies; diaspora fiction and transnational writing; genetic criticism in literary archives. I am interested in critique of the short story form, in women writers' representation in public and educational institutional archives and creative ways to engage students with literature.
Disciplines
First name
Tekla
Function
Assistant Professor
Expertise
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.
Disciplines
First name
Spencer
Function
Assistant Professor
Expertise
20/21C American literature; literary theory; American Studies
Disciplines
First name
Dorka
Function
Lecturer in Modern English Literature (fixed-term)
Expertise
twentieth-century literature, post-war American poetry, modernism, magic and witches from Shakespeare to twentieth-century literature and popular culture, environmental humanities, particularly poetry and ecology
Disciplines
Medieval Literature
First name
Kees
Function
Senior Lecturer in Older English Literature and Culture
Expertise
Old English philology, Middle English philology, medieval literature, encyclopaedic literature of the early medieval period, manuscript studies, the history of the Germanic languages, thel study of Old English and Old Germanic languages and cultures during the early modern period
Disciplines
First name
Aline
Function
Lecturer, Programme coordinator GSH
Expertise
Middle English, late medieval English politics and literature, manuscript studies, palaeograpy and codicology
First name
Megan
Expertise
Medieval romance; Arthurian literature; Chaucer and Lydgate; dream visions; history of the emotions; gender studies; medical humanities; manuscript studies; literature and law; treason, sleep, and dwarves in Middle English literature; Malory's Morte Darthur, the Wars of the Roses, and the fifteenth century in English and Scottish textual culture; periodisation and continuities between medieval and early modern English Literature
Disciplines
First name
Karin
Function
Assistant Professor
Expertise
Old English language and literature; Middle English language and literature; Old Norse language and literature; early Irish literature
Disciplines
First name
Patrick
Function
Assistant Professor
Expertise
Late-medieval literature
Wycliffite/ lollard and Hussite writings
Central European religious controversy
Medieval medicine
The Piers Plowman Tradition
Sermon studies
Medieval law
Palaeography, codicology and history of the book
Wycliffite/ lollard and Hussite writings
Central European religious controversy
Medieval medicine
The Piers Plowman Tradition
Sermon studies
Medieval law
Palaeography, codicology and history of the book
English for Academic Purposes
First name
Iris
First name
Carole
Expertise
English as a Second Language, English for Academic Purposes, inclusive international classrooms
Disciplines
First name
Seyit
Function
EAP Lecturer & Researcher
Expertise
I have worked in the field of English Language Teaching (ELT) for more than twenty years as a teacher, lecturer, head of English, academic director, teacher trainer and researcher. I am currently a lecturer and researcher in the Chair Group of Language Learning. I hold an MA and PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Leicester, UK. My research centres on the design, development, and evaluation of language teaching and learning materials. Additionally, I have significant experience in English for Academic Purposes (EAP), Professional Development, and Lesson Study (Research Lesson).
Function
Instructor English linguistics and applied linguistics
Expertise
Academic writing and speaking, English as a Second Language, English syntax, reporting on research in linguistics.
Disciplines
First name
Yuliya
Expertise
- Twentieth-century English literature
- Contemporary Ukrainian literature
- Memory Studies
- Language pedagogy
- Contemporary Ukrainian literature
- Memory Studies
- Language pedagogy
First name
María Pilar
Function
Lecturer of English
Expertise
Critical Discourse Studies
Gender studies
Rhetoric
Gender studies
Rhetoric
Disciplines
First name
Barbara
Function
Lecturer
Expertise
Comics studies, narrative theory, word and image
First name
Marieke
Function
Lecturer
Expertise
Second language teaching, English for academic purposes, oral proficiency, group work
Disciplines
First name
Annelot
Function
Lecturer
Expertise
Second language acquisition, second language teaching, English for academic purposes, sociolinguistics, phonetics and phonology, second language phonology
PhD Students
First name
Naomi
Function
PhD student
First name
Janine
Function
PhD Candidate
Expertise
Bilingualism/bilingual experiences, cognitive aging, Alzheimer's Disease, (resting-state) EEG, functional brain activity
Disciplines
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