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Dr Madeleine Callaghan
Senior Lecturer in Romantic LiteratureSchool of English
The poetry of Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, and Yeats. Romantic poets and prose writers. Milton and Spenser. Post-war British and Irish poetry, particularly Louis MacNeice and W. H. Auden.
m.callaghan@sheffield.ac.uk+44 114 222 8461
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Professor Susan M. Fitzmaurice
Vice President and Head of the Faculty of Arts and HumanitiesSchool of English
History of the English language, using methodological perspectives provided by historical pragmatics, historical sociolinguistics and computational linguistics.
s.fitzmaurice@sheffield.ac.uk+44 114 222 0213
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Dr Agnes Lehoczky
Senior Lecturer in Creative WritingSchool of English
Contemporary poetry, prose and the hybrid; the prose poem, archive, collage, auto-theory, creative translation as emerging modes of polyphonic texts; phenomenology, psychogeography & critical theory.
a.lehoczky@sheffield.ac.uk+44 114 222 8467
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Dr Seth Mehl
Senior Lecturer in Digital HumanitiesSchool of English
Corpus semantics, including corpus methodology and lexical semantics; development research, including co-produced and community-led methodology; analysis of concepts and discourses in development work
s.mehl@sheffield.ac.uk+44 114 222 6115


Dr Chris Montgomery
Senior Lecturer in DialectologySchool of English
Non-linguists’ perceptions of language variation. In particular, present research examines real-time reactions to regional speech, and in particular which features naïve listeners respond to.
c.montgomery@sheffield.ac.uk+44 114 222 8470
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Dr Richard Steadman-Jones
Senior University TeacherSchool of English
Stylistics and textual analysis. Language, literature, and cross-cultural encounters. Collaborative research. Creative practice, especially regarding digital interactive narratives, VR and AI.
r.d.steadman-jones@sheffield.ac.uk+44 114 222 0218


Professor Brendan Stone
Professor of Social Engagement and the Humanities, University of Sheffield Deputy Vice-President for EducationSchool of English
'Research in practice' in which wide participation, 'co-production', and real-world outcomes are key drivers. The outputs include films, audio pieces, and exhibitions amongst others.
b.stone@sheffield.ac.uk+44 114 222 8495
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Dr Meredith Warren
Senior Lecturer in Biblical and Religious Studies, Director of the Sheffield Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies.School of English
Use of food and the sense of taste in biblical texts, especially in the New Testament and non-canonical literature.
m.j.warren@sheffield.ac.uk+44 114 222 0502