The University of Sheffield
School of English

Academic and Teaching Staff

A more detailed profile of each permanent member of staff is available by clicking on his or her name.

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Name e-mail Internal Extension Research Interests

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ACKER, Faith f.acker@sheffield.ac.uk 28478 Shakespeare, Early Modern Poetry, Early Modern Print and Manuscript Culture, Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century, and Editorial Theory
ADAMS, Dr Jenni j.adams@sheffield.ac.uk 20237 Contemporary Fiction; Holocaust Literature; Literature and Ethics.
AFITSKA, Dr Oksana o.afitska@sheffield.ac.uk 28490 Language Testing & Assessment; Second Language Acquisition; Language Pedagogy; Research in Language Classrooms; Multilingualism.
ARMITAGE, Prof Simon     Creative Writing
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BABBAGE, Dr Frances f.babbage@sheffield.ac.uk 28479 Contemporary Theatre and Performance; Adaptation;
Applied Theatre Practices; Devising and Documentation.
BARTON, Dr Anna a.j.barton@sheffield.ac.uk 28483 Nineteenth-Century Poetry, Print Culture;
Nonsense Literature.
BEAL, Prof Joan j.c.beal@sheffield.ac.uk 20196 History and Dialects of English.
BRAY, Dr Joe j.bray@sheffield.ac.uk 28489 Stylistics; The Eighteenth-Century Novel; Experimental Literature.
BRYSON, Dr Alan a.bryson@sheffield.ac.uk 26114 Early Modern British History; Renaissance Literature.
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CALLAGHAN, Dr Madeleine m.callaghan@sheffield.ac.uk 28461 Romantic and Post-Romantic Poetry; 20th Century British and Irish Poetry.
CHEESEMAN, Dr Matthew matt.cheeseman@shef.ac.uk 20215 Postwar Art; Place; Youth; Money; Writing; Music; Pleasure; Tradition; Intoxication; Performance
COLLIGNON, Dr Fabienne f.collignon@sheffield.ac.uk 20242 Cold War culture; technology; technologised spaces; American literature since 1900; genre fiction & film.
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EBURY, Katherine k.ebury@sheffield.ac.uk 26295 Modernism (especially Joyce, Yeats and Beckett); literature and science; Irish Studies; and modern and contemporary poetry.
ELLIS, Dr Jonathan
j.s.ellis@sheffield.ac.uk 28465 Twentieth-Century Poetry; Letter Writing, Contemporary Cinema.
ETCHELLS, Prof Tim tim@forcedenertainment.com ----- Performance; Visual Arts.
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F

FAULKNER, Mark m.faulkner@sheffield.ac.uk 28458 Medieval English Language and Literature.
FERGUSON, Dr Gibson g.r.ferguson@sheffield.ac.uk 20224 Language Policy; Global English; English for Specific Purposes.
FITZMAURICE, Dr Jim j.fitzmaurice@sheffield.ac.uk Renaissance Literature; Early Women Writers.
FITZMAURICE, Prof Susan s.fitzmaurice@sheffield.ac.uk 20213 Historical Sociolinguistics; Historical Pragmatics; World Englishes.
FORREST, Dr David d.forrest@sheffield.ac.uk 28493 British Cinema; British Television Drama; Space and Place in Film.
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GAVINS, Dr Joanna j.gavins@sheffield.ac.uk 20214 Stylistics; Cognitive Poetics; Text-Worlds; Absurdist Literature.
GIL, Dr Kook-Hee k.gil@sheffield.ac.uk 20229 Syntax; Semantics; Generative Second Language Acquisition.
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HALLETT, Dr Nicky n.a.hallett@sheffield.ac.uk 28472 Women's writing; Auto/biography; Medieval and Early Modern Literature.
HOBBS, Dr Valerie v.hobbs@sheffield.ac.uk 20228 Language Teacher Education; Language Teaching Methodology; Second Language Writing.
HODSON, Dr Jane j.hodson@sheffield.ac.uk 28471 Stylistics; Romantic Literature; Dialect in Literature.
HOLLO, Dr Kaarina k.hollo@sheffield.ac.uk 28484 Medieval Irish Literature; Translation into/from Irish.
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IFILL, Dr Helena h.ifill@sheffield.ac.uk 28474 Victorian Literature and Science Writing; Sensation Fiction; the Periodical Press.

K

KUCHAH, Harry h.kuchah@sheffield.ac.uk 28464 Teaching and researching young learners, Context appropriate ELT methodology, Language Teaching Policy, Learner Autonomy.
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LADKIN, Dr Sam s.ladkin@sheffield.ac.uk 28496 Modern and Contemporary American Poetry; Contemporary British Poetry; Interdisciplinarity (Art & Poetry); the Avant-Garde; the New York School; Phenomenology; Contemporary Theatre; Queer Theory; Creative Writing.
LEHOCZKY, Dr Agnes A.Lehoczky@sheffield.ac.uk   Modernist and Postmodernist Poetry and Poetics, - particularly the Modernist Ágnes Nemes Nagy's Poetry and Essays.
LINN, Prof Andrew a.r.linn@sheffield.ac.uk 20216 Language Politics; Language Reform; History of Linguistics.
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MATHISON, Dr Hamish h.mathison@sheffield.ac.uk 28456 Robert Burns; Print Culture; Scottish Poetry; Eighteenth-Century Literature.
MAY, Prof Steven s.w.may@sheffield.ac.uk ----- Renaissance Literature, Manuscript Culture, Editing.
McDONNELL, Dr Bill w.g.mcdonnell@sheffield.ac.uk 28486 20th Century Political Theatre(s): Applied Theatre: Theatre Historiography.
McKAY, Dr Robert r.mckay@sheffield.ac.uk 28492 Twentieth Century Literature; Animal Studies; Postcolonialism.
MILLER, Dr John John.Miller@sheffield.ac.uk 20194 Victorian Literature and Culture; Ecocriticism; Animal Studies; Colonialism/Postcolonialism/Globalization.
MONTGOMERY, Dr Chris c.montgomery@sheffield.ac.uk 28470 Dialectology, Sociolinguistics, Varieties of English, Perceptual Dialectology, Folk Linguistics, Language Attitudes
MOORE, Dr Emma e.Moore@sheffield.ac.uk 20232 Identity; Gender; Dialectology; Ethnography; Style; Language Variation and Change.
MULDERRIG, Dr Jane j.mulderrig@sheffield.ac.uk 28497 Critical Discourse Analysis; Corpus-based CDA; Identity; Political Discourse; Ageing and the Elderly.
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NEVITT, Dr Marcus m.nevitt@sheffield.ac.uk 28487 Cheap Print; Literature of the 1650s; Royalism; Seventeenth-Century Journalism; The Works of Sir William Davenant.
NICHOLSON, Prof Steve s.nicholson@sheffield.ac.uk 28491 Theatre & Performance; Contemporary Playwrights; British Political Theatre; Theatre Censorship.
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O'CONNOR, Terry terry@forcedentertainment.com ----- Contemporary Theatre; Performance Practice.
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P

PIETTE, Prof Adam a.piette@sheffield.ac.uk 28494 War Studies; Modernist Literature; Translation; Contemporary Poetry.
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R

RAYNER, Dr Jonathan j.r.rayner@sheffield.ac.uk 28457 Australasian Cinema; Cinema and Landscape; Naval Films; Genre Films.
REGIS, Dr Amber a.regis@sheffield.ac.uk 28469 Victorian Literature; Auto/Biography; Gender and Sexuality; Adaptation Studies.
RHATIGAN, Dr Emma e.k.rhatigan@sheffield.ac.uk 28476 Early Modern Religious Writing; Sermons; John Donne.
RUTTER, Dr Tom t.rutter@sheffield.ac.uk 28473 Early modern drama; Shakespeare; Marlowe; playing companies.
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SEN, Dr Ranjan ranjan.sen@sheffield.ac.uk 20233 Phonology; Phonetics; Historical Linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Comparative Philology.
SHRANK, Prof Cathy c.shrank@sheffield.ac.uk 28485

Early Modern Literature; Dialogue; Sonnets; Humanism.

SMITH, Dr Andrew andrew.smith1@sheffield.ac.uk 20217

Nineteenth Century Literature, Gothic, literature and Science.

STEADMAN-JONES, Dr Richard r.d.steadman-jones@sheffield.ac.uk 20218 Colonial Culture; Exile Narratives; History of Linguistic Ideas; Arts Practice; Grammar and Rhetoric.
STONE, Prof Brendan b.stone@sheffield.ac.uk 28495 Literature and Trauma; Contemporary Fiction; Literary Theory.
SZABO, Dr Carmen c.szabo@sheffield.ac.uk 20212 Physical Theatre; Shakespeare in Performance; Contemporary European Theatre.
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THAIN, Dr Marion m.thain@sheffield.ac.uk ----- Aestheticism, Decadence; poetry and poetics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

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VAN DUYVENBODE, Dr Rachel r.van-duyvenbode@sheffield.ac.uk 28482 American Literature; Race and Gender Studies; Whiteness in Literature.
VAN OOSTRUM, Dr Duco d.oostrum@sheffield.ac.uk 28468 American Literature; Sports Culture; African-American Literature and Film; Auto/Biography; and 1970s Culture.
VICE, Prof Sue s.vice@sheffield.ac.uk 28475 Modern and Contemporary Literature; Holocaust Studies; Film.
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WALKER, Dr Gareth g.walker@sheffield.ac.uk 20238 Phonetics; Conversation Analysis; Phonetics of talk-in-interaction.
WILLIAMS, Dr Graham g.t.williams@sheffield.ac.uk 28460 Historical (Im)politeness and Pragmatics; Early English Letters; Digital Corpora; Palaeography.
WHITELEY, Dr Sara sara.whiteley@sheffield.ac.uk 28498 Stylistics; Cognitive Poetics; Emotion; Reader Response.
WOOD, Mr Gary g.c.wood@sheffield.ac.uk 20223 Language Acquisition; Pycholinguistics; Syntax.
WRIGHT, Dr Angela a.h.wright@sheffield.ac.uk 28488 Romanticism; Gothic; Eighteenth-Century Literature; Translation; Women's Writing.
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ZERIHAN, Dr Rachel r.zerihan@sheffield.ac.uk 20235 Experimental Theatre Practices; Contemporary Performance; Live Art.
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