Our staff

Staff categories

These are our Birkbeck staff categories within the Department of English, Theatre and Creative Writing.

Head of department

Carolyn Burdett, Senior Lecturer in English and Victorian Studies

Academic staff

Katherine Angel, Lecturer in Creative Writing
Anthony Bale, Professor of Medieval Studies
Heike Bauer, Professor of Modern Literature and Cultural History
Julia Bell, Reader in Creative Writing
Mark Blacklock, Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary English
Mike Bintley, Senior Lecturer in Early Medieval Literature and Culture
Joseph Brooker, Reader in Modern Literature
Carolyn Burdett, Senior Lecturer in English and Victorian Studies
Luisa Calè, Reader in Romantic and Nineteenth-Century Literature and Visual Culture
Daragh Carville, Lecturer in Creative Writing (Scriptwriting)
Stephen Clucas, Reader in Early-Modern Intellectual History
Isabel Davis, Reader in Medieval Literature and Culture
Caroline Edwards, Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature
David Eldridge, Lecturer in Creative Writing
Martin Eve, Professor of Technology and Publishing
Olivia Ferguson, Lecturer in Romantic Studies
Peter Fifield, Lecturer in Modern Literature
Alison Finlay, Professor of Medieval English and Icelandic Literature
Molly Flynn, Lecturer in Theatre and Performance
Grace Halden, Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature
Richard Hamblyn, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing
Anna Hartnell, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature
Seda Ilter, Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies
Jodie Kim, Lecturer in Creative and Critical Writing
Esther Leslie, Professor in Political Aesthetics
Toby Litt, Reader in Creative Writing
Roger Luckhurst, Professor in Modern and Contemporary Literature
David McAllister, Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Victoria Mills, Lecturer in Victorian Literature and Culture
Mpalive Msiska, Reader in English and Humanities
Louise Owen, Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance
Jacqueline Rose, Professor of Humanities
Emily Senior, Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature
Laura Seymour, Lecturer in Renaissance Drama
Rob Swain, Professor of Theatre Practice
Ana Parejo Vadillo, Reader in Victorian Literature and Culture
Fintan Walsh, Reader in Theatre and Performance
Marina Warner, Professor of English and Creative Writing
Steve Willey, Lecturer in Creative and Critical Writing
Luke Williams, Lecturer in Creative Writing
Joanne Winning, Professor in Modern Literature and Critical Theory
Sue Wiseman, Professor of Seventeenth Century Literature
Gillian Woods, Reader in Renaissance Theatre and Drama
Agnes Woolley, Lecturer in Transnational Literature and Migration Cultures

EMERITUS STAFF

Isobel Armstrong: Fellow of the College

Isobel Armstrong is a Fellow of the British Academy, Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of English Studies and Professor Emeritus of what is now the Geoffrey Tillotson Chair. During her time at Birkbeck, she founded the London Seminar for Nineteenth-Century Studies and the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies. During retirement she has taught at the universities of Harvard and Johns Hopkins and spoken at international conferences. She is also a published poet.

Laurel Brake: Professor Emerita of English Literature and Print Culture

Sandra Clark

After retiring from Birkbeck in 2006, Sandra Clark became Acting, Deputy Director and then Director of the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London until 2012. Her special interest is in Shakespeare and early modern drama and popular literature. She is the author of six books and numerous articles and chapters in books and is also the Series Editor of the Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries.

Hilary Fraser

Hilary Fraser came to Birkbeck in 2002 to take up the Geoffrey Tillotson Chair of Nineteenth-Century Studies. As Director of the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, Hilary was the founding editor of its online journal, 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century. She is a published author and has written monographs on the Victorians and Renaissance Italy, aesthetics and religion in Victorian writing, nineteenth-century non-fiction prose, and gender and the Victorian periodical. She has been President of the British Association for Victorian Studies since 2015.
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Barbara Hardy
Tom Healy
Russell Celyn Jones

Russell Celyn Jones set up the MA Creative Writing course at Birkbeck in 2003 and was its director for 12 years. His short fiction has been anthologised around the world and Soldiers and Innocents was serialised on BBC Radio 4. He has been a freelance feature writer for the Observer, Guardian, Independent, Time Out and Sunday Times, and a book reviewer for The Times for 15 years. Prizes he has judged include the Man Booker Prize, The Royal Society of Literature Ondaatji Prize and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. He also chaired the annual Man Booker event at Birkbeck.

Peter Mudford
Michael Slater: Fellow of the College

Michael Slater is one of the most highly regarded scholars of nineteenth-century literature. From 1958 to 1977 he edited The Dickensian and he served as president both of the International Dickens Fellowship and of the Dickens Society of America. He has always been actively involved in the affairs of Dickens House Museum. Michael worked and taught continuously at Birkbeck for 36 years and has taught and lectured in the US, across Europe, Australasia and the Far East.

Colin Teevan

RESEARCH FELLOWS AND VISITING PROFESSORS

Sophia Brown, Associate Research Fellow
David Gillott, Associate Research Fellow
Hallvard Haug, Associate Research Fellow
Sarah Lightman, Honorary Research Fellow
Rosie Miles, Honorary Research Fellow
Christopher Norris, Honorary Research Fellow
Sean O'Brien, Associate Research Fellow
Laura Seymour, Associate Research Fellow and Lecturer in Seventeenth-Century Literature

Study skills and learning support advisEr

Fleur Rothschild

Administrative staff

Clare Thomas, Assistant School Manager for English, Theatre and Creative Writing
Paul Cutts, Team Leader for English, Theatre and Creative Writing
Esther Ranson, Programme Administrator for the BA English, BA Arts and Humanities, MA Medieval Literature and Culture, MA Renaissance Studies, MA Victorian Studies, and MA Applied Medical Humanities
Annmarie Shadie, Programme Administrator for the BA Creative Writing, BA Creative Writing and English, MA Creative Writing, MFA Creative Writing, and MA Creative and Critical Writing
Isobel Alexis (Wednesday-Friday), Programme Administrator for MFA Theatre Directing, BA Theatre Studies, BA Theatre and Drama Studies, MA Text and Performance, MA Dramaturgy, MA Modern and Contemporary Literature, MA Cultural and Critical Studies and MA Contemporary Literature and Culture
Annemarie Cancienne (only Monday-Tuesday), Programme Administrator for MFA Theatre Directing, BA Theatre Studies, BA Theatre and Drama Studies, MA Text and Performance, MA Dramaturgy, MA Modern and Contemporary Literature, MA Cultural and Critical Studies and MA Contemporary Literature and Culture
Anthony Shepherd, Team Leader for the MPhil/ PhD Research
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