Teaching Associates
The School's academic community is diverse. In addition to full-time academic staff, our teaching team includes a small number teaching associates, qualified subject specialists whose research directly informs their teaching.
Teaching Associates
| Name | Modules | Office Hour | Contact details | Research |
| AYACHE, Solange | LIT180 and FR201/202 | Thursday, 14:00 - 14:50. Jessop West, Room 1.21 (or 5th floor, open workspace). | solange.ayache@gmail.com or egu10sa@sheffield.ac.uk | Contemporary British and French Theatre; Playwriting; Poetics; Literary Theory; Critical Theory; Feminist Theory and Women Studies; Mental Health; Trauma Studies; Psychoanalysis; Medical Humanities; Translation |
| BALDOCK, Sophie | LIT108 | Monday, 14.00-14.50, Room 1.19, Jessop West | sophie.baldock@sheffield.ac.uk | Twentieth-century letter writing; poetry; modern and contemporary fiction; digital archives |
| BENNETT, Mark | LIT207 | Tuesday, 14:00 - 14:.50. Jessop West, Room 1.19. | mark.bennett@sheffield.ac.uk | From Libraries to Landscapes: Travel Writing and the Location of Gothic Fiction, 1700-1797. |
| BOWLER, Dr Rebecca | LIT302 | Tuesday, 16.00 - 16.50. Jessop West, Room 1.19. | r.bowler@sheffield.ac.uk | Literary modernism and fin de siècle literary impressionism. Visual perception, visual culture and technologies (photography, cinema, fashion, painting, etc) in early 20th century fiction, particularly the fiction of Dorothy Richardson, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, and May Sinclair. |
| BRADBURY, Janine | LIT112 | Monday, 15:00 - 15:.50. Jessop West, Room 1.19. | janinebradbury@sheffield.ac.uk | American studies, African American literature, racial passing and mixed race studies, history and culture of the American South, race and pedagogy. |
| BUT, Roxanne | ELL110 and ELL113 | Monday, 11.00 - 11.50. Jessop West, Room 1.19. | r.but@sheffield.ac.uk | Non-standard varieties of English (particularly slang and cant), historical sociolinguistics, historical pragmatics, corpus and discourse analysis. |
| COOPER, Paul | ELL110 | Thursday, 15:00 - 15:50. Jessop West, Room 1.19. | p.cooper@sheffield.ac.uk | Enregisterment, Historical Sociolinguistics, Dialects of English (particularly Yorkshire), Historical Dialectology, Later Modern English, Language and Identity |
| DEWAR-WATSON, Sarah | LIT2000 | Friday, 12:00 - 12:50. Jessop West, Room 1.19. | s.dewar-watson@sheffield.ac.uk | The reception of classical texts in the early modern period and Shakespeare. |
| FIRTH, Liam | LIT107 | Monday, 16:00 - 16:50. Jessop West, Hub Room 3. | LPFirth1@sheffield.ac.uk | Victorian and Post-Romantic Poetry, especially Hardy, Yeats and Hopkins; Literary Ethics and Hermeneutics; German Philosophy and Theory |
| HANSON, Dr Ingrid | LIT3101 | Wednesday, 10:00 - 10:50. | i.h.hanson@sheffield.ac.uk | Victorian literature and culture; war and peace from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. |
| KU, Wei | ELL115 | Wednesday, 11.00 - 11.50am. Jessop West, Room 1.19. | wei.ku@sheffield.ac.uk | Syntax; Pragmatics; Generative Second Language Acquisition; Bilingual Acquisition. |
| LOW, Suk May | ELL216 | Thursday, 12:00 - 12:50. Jessop West, Room 5.05. | sukmay.low@sheffield.ac.uk | Language planning in education; English as medium of instruction; classroom code-switching; content and language integrated learning |
| MCCANN, Mat | LIT107 | Friday, 14:00 - 14:50. Jessop West Room 5.11 | mdfmccann1@sheffield.ac.uk | My research applies ideas from cultural geography, tourism studies and neuroscience to Western literature of the nuclear age in order to examine how representations of travel articulate civilians’ tensions with the demands of the State. |
| MERRILLS, Fern | LIT112 | Wednesday, 11:00 - 11:50, Jessop West, Room 1.19. | fmerrills1@sheffield.ac.uk | Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, particularly the poetic legacy of Percy Bysshe Shelley. |
| MOORE, Bridie | LIT180 and EGH115 | Thursday, 15:00 - 15:50. Jessop West, Room 1.21. | blmoore1@sheffield.ac.uk | The Performance of Age and Ageing: combining traditional and practice based research, the study analyses performances of age in early twenty-first century theatre and investigates both the lived experience of older people and new models of performance that might challenge cultural perceptions of age and ageing. |
| NONOMIYA, Ayumi | egs11an@sheffield.ac.uk | Second-person pronouns in eighteenth-century British dramas. | ||
| SCHWARTZ-LEEPER, Gavin | LIT107 | Tuesday 13:00 - 14:00. Jessop West, Room 5.12. | g.schwartzleeper@sheffield.ac.uk | Early Modern Literature; Early Modern Historiography; Early Modern Drama. |
| Smith, Adam James | LIT234 and LIT207 | Thursday, 15:00 - 15:50. Jessop West, Office 1.19. | egp10ajs@sheffield.ac.uk | Joseph Addison; Eighteenth-Century Literature; Early Modern Literature; Periodical and Serialized Print; Paratexts and Ephemora; Eighteenth-Century Letter Writing; Rise of the Novel. |
| VAFA, Amir | LIT107 | Monday, 16:00 - 16:50. Jessop West, Hub Room 5. | a.vafa@sheffield.ac.uk | Postcolonial studies; men, masculinities, and gender relations; American and Iranian literatures |
| VAN DER BOM, Isabelle | ELL116 and ELL217 | Thursday, 13:00 - 13:50. Jessop West, Room 5.03. | i.vanderbom@sheffield.ac.uk | Stylistics; Cognitive Poetics; Sociolinguistics; Ethnography; Narratives; Text-Worlds; Identity; Ethnicity |
| WALLIS, Christine | ELL116 | Monday, 12:00 - 12:50. Jessop West, Room 1.19. | c.wallis@sheffield.ac.uk | ‘The Old English Bede: Transmission and Textual History in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts.’ I research scribal behavior in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts of Bede's Ecclesiastical History. In particular, I am interested in why scribes write the way they do, why they make mistakes, and why they do not copy their texts precisely when they write. |
| WINDLE, Jack | LIT204 | Tuesdays 15:00 - 15:50. Dainton Building, Graduate Research Centre. | j.windle@sheffield.ac.uk | Working-class writing; Modern and Contemporary Literature; Postcolonialism; Cultural Studies. |
| ZHU, Wuhan | ELL115 | Friday 13:00 - 13:50. Jessop West, Room 2.22 | z.wuhan@sheffield.ac.uk | Cross-cultural Pragmatics; Discourse Analysis; Second Language Acquisition |