English Literature Staff

Dr Katherine Baxter, Senior Lecturer in English Literature

British and West African twentieth-century literature form the main focus of Katherine's research.

phone: 0191 227 4986; katherine.baxter@northumbria.ac.uk 

Dr Ian Davidson, Reader in English

Ian's current interest lies in space and spatialisation in modern and contemporary poetry 

phone: 0191 243 7802; ian.c.davidson@northumbria.ac.uk   

Dr Clare Elliott, Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Clare's current research engages with Transatlantic Literary Studies in the long  nineteenth century. 

phone: 0191 227 4826; clare.elliott@northumbria.ac.uk  

Dr Michelle Faubert, Visiting Fellow in Romantic Literature

Michelle's research is in the history of psychology and insanity in the Romantic period, early feminism and literary and professional identity.

Dr Peter Garratt, Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Peter's research broadly examines mid-nineteenth-century literature and culture.

phone: 0191 227 3282; peter.garratt@northumbria.ac.uk  

Dr Adam Hansen, Senior Lecturer in English Literature 

Adam's research considers issues of appropriation, location and dislocation in the early modern period and beyond.

phone: 0191 243 7193; adam.hansen@northumbria.ac.uk 

Dr Claudine van Hensbergen, Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century English Literature

Claudine's research draws on poems, plays, prose fictions, early novels, pamphlets, life writing and the visual arts from the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. phone: TBC;

Prof Allan Ingram, Professor of English

Allan's research has been mainly in the eighteenth century, though he has also published on literature of the Modernist period.

phone: 0191 227 3730; allan.ingram@northumbria.ac.uk  

Dr Kaye Kossick, Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth- to Twentieth-Century Poetry

Kaye's research focuses on gender, class and identity in poetry by English, Irish and Scots writers.

phone: 0191 227 3123; kaye.kossick@northumbria.ac.uk 

Dr Clark Lawlor, Reader in Eighteenth Century/Romantic English Literature

Clark’s research interests focus on representations and narratives of the body and mind, particularly disease, in literature. 

phone: 0191 227 4993; clark.lawlor@northumbria.ac.uk

Dr Kiriaki Massoura, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature

Kiriaki's current research focuses on contemporary women writers, especially Alice Munro and Chimamanda Adichie.

phone: 0191 227 4174; kiriaki.massoura@northumbria.ac.uk 

Dr Claire Nally, Lecturer in Twentieth-Century English Literature 

Claire's research focuses on twentieth-century English and Irish literature, specifically Joyce and Yeats.

phone: 0191 227 4701; claire.nally@northumbria.ac.uk    

Dr Anita O'Connell, Senior Research Assistant

Anita's research interests range throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, focusing primarily on dream visions and creativity in Romantic poetry.

phone: 0191 243 7069; anita.oconnell@northumbria.ac.uk

Dr Philip O'Neill, Principal Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century English Literature and Contemporary Irish Writing

Philip's current research focuses on the contemporary Irish novel. 

phone: 0191 227 3740; philip.oneill@northumbria.ac.uk

Dr Julie Scanlon, Senior Lecturer in Twentieth- to Twenty-First-Century Writing

Julie's areas of specialism include contemporary fiction, particularly narrative and literary theory.  

phone: 0191 243 7327; julie.scanlon@northumbria.ac.uk

Dr Fred Schurink, Senior Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature

Fred has broad interests in early modern English literature and culture.

phone: 0191 243 7308; email: fred.schurink@northumbria.ac.uk 

Prof Stuart Sim, Professor in Critical Theory and Long Eighteenth-Century English Literature 

Stuart's research is in critical theory and prose fiction.

phone: 0191 227 3732; s.sim@northumbria.ac.uk

Dr Monika Smialkowska, Senior Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature

Monika's research interests include the post-renaissance adaptations of early modern authors and genres.  

phone: 0191 227 4974; monika.smialkowska@northumbria.ac.uk 

Dr David Stewart, Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature

David is interested in the work of writers who test the boundaries between high and low culture in the Romantic period. 

phone: 0191 227 4762; david.stewart@northumbria.ac.uk

Professor John Strachan, Professor of English Literature

John's research is focused on British Romanticism. 

phone: 0191 243 7505; john.strachan@northumbria.ac.uk    

Professor Richard Terry, Professor of Eighteenth-Century English Literature

Richard currently researches attitudes to, and representations of, Stoicism in eighteenth-century literature.

phone: 0191 227 3568; richard.terry@northumbria.ac.uk

Dr David Walker, Associate Dean & Head of Department

David's research is concerned with religious and political writing in poetry, prose and drama in the seventeenth century.

phone: 0191 227 3724; david5.walker@northumbria.ac.uk 

Dr Melanie Waters, Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature 

Melanie's research is in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American poetry. 

phone: 0191 227 3474; melanie.waters@northumbria.ac.uk

Dr Leigh Wetherall Dickson, Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature

Leigh currently works in the area of autobiographical prose.

phone: 0191 227 3277; leigh.wetherall-dickson@northumbria.ac.uk

Dr Rosie White, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature, Theory and Popular Culture

Rosie's current research interest is women TV comedy actors.

phone: 0191 227 3100; rosemary.white@northumbria.ac.uk