PAW Members

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Name	Dept. / Centre	Research Interests
Nicola Hamer	English and Comparative Literary Studies	ecopoetics; poetics of ecological grief; Caribbean; North America; decolonial ecology.
Mohammad Javanmard	English and Comparative Literary Studies	Contemporary World-Poetry and the Aesthetics of Social Uprisings; Modern Persian Poetry; I also write poetry, mostly in Persian/Farsi.
Eileen JohnLink opens in a new window	Department of Philosophy
Daniel KatzLink opens in a new window	English and Comparative Literary Studies
Peter Larkin	English and Comparative Literary Studies
Mae LosassoLink opens in a new window	English and Comparative Literary Studies	Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics; theories of the lyric; breath poetics; the New York School; poetics and architecture; poetics and visual art.
Nicholas LawrenceLink opens in a new window	English and Comparative Literary Studies
Emma MasonLink opens in a new window	English and Comparative Literary Studies	Romantic and Victorian poetry; Christian (Catholic) poetry and poetics.
Stacey McDowellLink opens in a new window	English and Comparative Literary Studies
Emily McGiffinLink opens in a new window	English and Comparative Literary Studies	My interests in the poetry realm include ecopoetics, oral poetry, postcolonialism, and African poetry.
Paulo de MedeirosLink opens in a new window	English and Comparative Literary Studies
Michael MeeuwisLink opens in a new window	English and Comparative Literary Studies
Karen SimecekLink opens in a new window	Department of Philosophy
Jonathan SkinnerLink opens in a new window	English and Comparative Literary Studies
Paul Vernall	English and Comparative Literary Studies	The title of my PhD thesis is The Poetics of Uneven and Combined Development: Chronotopic Forms in World-Poetry. I am working on reading poetry from the period 1870 - 1945 under the sign of Trotsky's theory of Uneven and Combined Development. My case study poets are Yeats, Eliot and Vallejo.
Sam Weselowski	English and Comparative Literary Studies
John WestLink opens in a new window	English and Comparative Literary Studies
Sarah WoodLink opens in a new window	English and Comparative Literary Studies	I work on Middle English alliterative poetry, particularly Piers Plowman, and I have also published on The Prick of Conscience, a mid-14th century instructional poem on the wretchedness of the world, death and the signs before Doomsday, the pains of hell, and the joys of heaven. I am currently working on the sources and historical contexts of The Siege of Jerusalem, an account in Middle English alliterative verse of the destruction of the Second Temple in 70CE.

Associate Members

Name	Dept. / Institution
Hannah Boast	English and Comparative Literary Studies (Leverhulme Fellow)
Tirza Brüggeman	Centre for Teaching & Learning, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Tom Crompton	English and Comparative Literary Studies (PhD)
Fern Ennis	English and Comparative Literary Studies (PhD)
David Grundy	English and Comparative Literary Studies (British Academy Postdoc)
Jack McGowan	English Media and Culture, University of Worcester
Christine Okoth	English and Comparative Literary Studies (Leverhulme Fellow)
Anna Rivers	English and Comparative Literary Studies (PhD)
Matthew Rumbold	English and Comparative Literary Studies (PhD)

If you would like to be listed on this page as a Member or Associate Member of PAW, please contact mae.losasso@warwick.ac.uk

This page's main image is 'Poetry' by John Everett Millais. Image credit: Leeds Museums and Galleries.