Staff in the Department of English and Creative Writing

Dr Arianna Autieri

Arianna's research interests include James Joyce, music, translation theory and practice, and experimental translation.

Dr Alice Condé

Alice’s research explores decadence from the nineteenth century to the present day.

Dr Rick Crownshaw

Rick works extensively in the field of memory and trauma studies, American literature (particularly of the twentieth and twenty-first century), and the Environmental Humanities (culture and climate change, the Anthropocene and oil).

Professor Jane Desmarais

Literary and visual decadence and Anglo-French cultural relations in the late 19th century.

Dr Livia Franchini

Livia is a writer and translator of poetry and fiction. Her research focuses on feminist writing and experimental form.

Dr Jessica Gossling

Jessica’s research is primarily focused on French and English literary decadence, spatial theory, and occulture.

Dr Padraig Kirwan

Padraig’s primary interest is contemporary Indigenous literatures and literature from the North American continent

Dr Tom Lee

Tom is a short story writer, novelist and memoirist.

Dr Uttara Natarajan

Romantic and Victorian literature, with a focus on non-fiction prose, especially the essay genre.

Dr Julia Ng

Julia specialises in the history of critical theory and the links between philosophy, literature and modern mathematics.

Jocelyn Page

Jocelyn's research interests include poetry, the short story, collaboration, academic writing and pedagogy.

Dr Tim Parnell

Tim’s research focuses on eighteenth-century fiction. He is Literary Director of the Goldsmiths Prize.

Dr Pia Pichler

Pia's research explores discourse and intersectional gender identity in talk; language & social class, ethnicity, race

Phyllis Richardson

Phyllis has written on architecture, urban design and and houses in literature.

Amy Sackville

Amy Sackville writes novels, short fiction and other short prose.

Dr Shelley Angelie Saggar

Richard Scott

Richard Scott teaches on the MA in Creative and Life Writing. He is also the author of Soho (Faber & Faber, 2018).

Dr Abigail Shinn

Abigail specialises in conversion, drama and life writing in the early modern period.

Professor Francis Spufford

Francis Spufford is a novelist and writer of non-fiction, with a habit of changing subject matter from book to book.

Dr Guy Stevenson

Guy specialises in literary modernism, the 1960s counterculture, and their political and cultural legacies today.

Dr Jack Underwood

Jack is a poet, writer and critic, interested in the lyric, poetics, and new terminologies of writing practice.