Academics in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies
Dr Jen Baker
Role: Assistant Professor
Email: J.Baker.5@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.26
- Gothic literature
- Victorian Studies
- Representations of childhood
Professor Elizabeth Barry
Role: Professor
Email: E.C.Barry@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.56
- Medical Humanities (psychology, psychopathology, ageing)
- English and French modernism
- Modern British and Irish Theatre
Professor Paul Botley
Role: Professor
Email: Paul.Botley@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.39
- Early Modern letters
- The reception of classical literature
- Neo-Latin literature
Dr Ursula Clayton
Role: Assistant Professor
Email: ursula.clayton@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.54
- Shakespeare
- Early modern drama and culture (especially the history of the body)
- The parasite in literature
Dr Natalya Din-Kariuki
Role: Associate Professor
Email: Natalya.Din-Kariuki@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.35
- Early modern literary and intellectual history
- Travel writing, transnational and transcultural encounter, and modes of cosmopolitanism
- Rhetoric and poetics
Dr Jennifer Edwards
Role: Assistant Professor
Email: jennifer.j.edwards@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.10
- Early modern literature
- Medical Humanities
- Philosophy (emotion/embodiment)
Dr Christine Emmett
Role: Teaching Fellow
Email: christine.emmett@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.36
- World Literatures
- Critical Theory
- South African literature
Dr Ross G Forman
Role: Reader
Email: R.G.Forman@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.11
- Nineteenth-century literatures and cultures
- Queer theory and literature
- Literary and cultural interactions between Britain and Asia
Dr Emma Francis
Role: Associate Professor
Email: E.J.Francis@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.17
- Nineteenth-century British women's poetry
- Bloomsbury and the East End
- Victorian Freud
Dr Matthew Franks
Role: Associate Professor
Email: M.Franks@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.13
- Victorian, modern, and contemporary theatre
- Book history, especially printed ephemera
- Collective funding: subscription, the welfare state
Professor Michael Gardiner
Role: Professor
Email: M.Gardiner@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.55
- Twentieth century cultural history
- 'Post-British' cultures
- Space and environment; nuclear imperialism
Professor John T Gilmore
Role: Professor
Email: J.T.Gilmore@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.38
- British and Caribbean literature in the long eighteenth century in English and Latin
- History of translation in the eighteenth century
- Orientalism (very broadly defined, to include the history of scholarship as well as orientalist fantasy)
Professor Teresa Grant
Role: Professor
Email: T.Grant@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.25
- Early modern drama (especially non-Shakespearean)
- Renaissance literature and culture
- James Shirley
Dr Joanna Hofer-Robinson
Role: Assistant Professor
Email: jo.hofer-robinson@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.08
- Nineteenth-century theatre and literature
- Infrastructure and urban studies
- Charles Dickens
Dr Nancy Haijing Jiang
Role: Teaching Fellow
Email: Haijing.Jiang@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.18
- Medieval and Early Modern Literature
- Religious cultures / Bible and literature
- Economic Humanities
Tomos Hughes
Role: Teaching Fellow
Email: tomos.hughes@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.24
- Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century US literature and culture
- Cultures of slavery and emancipation
- Literature and/as historicism
Dr Alírio Karina
Role: Assistant Professor
Email: Alirio.Karina@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.19
- Race (with a focus on Blackness)
- Memory, archive and history
- Political violence
Professor Daniel Katz
Role: Professor
Email: D.Katz@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.36
- Modernism and Avant-Gardes
- Modern and Contemporary Poetry
- Psychoanalysis, deconstruction, theories of the subject
Dr Alice Kelly
Role: Assistant Professor
Email: Alice.Kelly@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.23
- Twentieth-century literary and cultural history
- Anglo-American modernism
- Literary and cultural memory
Dr Nick Lawrence
Role: Associate Professor
Email: N.Lawrence@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.15
- American literature and culture, nineteenth century to the present
- Marxism, the Frankfurt School and critical media theory
- World-literature and world-ecology
Professor Graeme Macdonald
Role: Professor
Email: g.macdonald@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.16
- Energy Humanities and Petroculture
- World Literatures
- Science Fiction/SF
Professor Emma Mason
Role: Professor
Email: Emma.Mason@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.44
- Christianity and literature
- Romantic and Victorian poetry
- Catholic poetry/philosophy/ecology
Dr Stacey McDowell
Role: Assistant Professor
Email: Stacey.McDowell@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.47
- Eighteenth-century literature and philosophy
- Romantic and Victorian poetry
- Reading studies
Dr Emily McGiffin
Role: Assistant Professor
Email: Emily.McGiffin@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.20
- Environmental humanities, ecocriticism, postcolonial studies
- World Literature, especially literatures of Africa and Canada
- Cultural heritage, memory and trauma, extractivism and extractive industries
Professor Paulo de Medeiros
Role: Head of Department
Email: P.De-Medeiros@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.33
- Critical Theory and World Literature
- Modernism and Postcolonial Studies
- Lusophone Literatures
Dr Michael Meeuwis
Role: Reader
Email: M.Meeuwis@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.09
- Performance in Britain and its empire during the later Victorian and Edwardian periods
- Class and geography in contemporary performance in London
- The epistemological history of performance and novels in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England
Dr Mike Niblett
Role: Deputy Head / Reader
Email: m.niblett@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.37
- World-Literature and Postcolonial Studies
- Ecology and Ecocriticism
- Caribbean Studies
Dr Stephen Purcell
Role: Reader
Email: s.purcell@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.46
- Early modern drama (especially Shakespeare) in performance
- Shakespeare adaptations
- Audience research and practice-as-research
Dr Julian Richards
Role: Teaching Fellow
Email: julian.richards.1@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.??
- Shakespeare in Performance (especially in the 20th and 21st centuries)
- Adaptations of Classical and Early Modern Theatre in response to trauma
- Militarism and Masculinity in Early Modern Drama
Professor Stephen Shapiro
Role: Professor
Email: S.Shapiro@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.22
- American Studies
- Cultural Studies
- Cultural Materialism
Dr Beth Sharrock
Role: Teaching Fellow
Email: elizabeth.sharrock@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.10
- Specialist in various pedagogical approaches and literature
Dr Rochelle Sibley
Role: Senior Teaching Fellow
Email: Rochelle.Sibley@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.24
- Essay-writing support
- Research methods
- Yiddish Literature in Translation
Dr Jonathan Skinner
Role: Reader
Email: J.E.Skinner@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.12
- Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
- Ecocriticism: especially Ecopoetics, Animal and Sound Studies
- Creative Writing and Small Press Culture
Dr Mark Storey
Role: Reader
Email: M.J.Storey@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.48
- American literature and culture
- Genre fiction
- US politics and the history of emotions
Dr Myka Tucker-Abramson
Role: Associate Professor
Email: M.Abramson@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.34
- Twentieth-century and contemporary U.S. writing
- Urban studies
- Marxist theory
Professor Rashmi Varma
Role: Professor
Email: rashmi.varma@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.27
- Postcolonial and world literature and theory
- Feminist theory and transnational feminism
- Materialist cultural theory
Dr Caitlin Vandertop
Role: Associate Professor
Email: Caitlin.Vandertop@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.45
- Modern and contemporary world literature
- Postcolonial studies, especially Asia/Pacific
- Urban and environmental humanities
Dr Harry Warwick
Role: Teaching Fellow
Email: harry.warwick@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.22
- Speculative literature and cinema
- Environmental and energy humanities
- Critical theory
Dr John West
Role: Associate Professor
Email: J.West.1@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.43
- Seventeenth-century literature and history, especially of the Civil Wars and Restoration
- Early modern literature and religion
- Early modern literature and political thought
Dr Sarah Wood
Role: Reader
Email: Sarah.Wood@warwick.ac.uk
Office: FAB5.57
- Piers Plowman and its transmission
- Late medieval religious and ethical literature
- History of the book