Our staff

STAFF CATEGORIES 

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

Head of department 

• Heike Bauer, Professor of Modern Literature and Cultural History

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, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing
• Mark Blacklock, Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary English
• Mike Bintley, Lecturer in Early Medieval Literature and Culture
• Joseph Brooker, Reader in Modern Literature
• Carolyn Burdett, Senior Lecturer in English and Victorian Studies
• Luisa Calè, Senior Lecturer in Romantic Studies
• 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
• Hilary Fraser, Professor in Nineteenth-Century Studies
• 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
• Sophie Jones, Wellcome ISSF Postdoctoral Fellow
• 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, Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature
• Victoria Mills, Lecturer in Victorian Literature and Culture
• Mpalive Msiska, Reader in English and Humanities
• Sean O'Brien, Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature
• Louise Owen, 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
• Colin Teevan, Professor, playwright and screenwriter
• Ana Parejo Vadillo, Senior Lecturer 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, Reader in Modern Literature and Critical Theory
• Sue Wiseman, Professor of Seventeenth Century Literature
• Gillian Woods, Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Theatre and Drama
• Agnes Woolley, Lecturer in Transnational Literature and Migration Cultures

Study skills and learning support advisEr 

• Fleur Rothschild 

Administrative staff 

• Clare Thomas, Assistant School Manager 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 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 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 Modern and Contemporary Literature, MA Cultural and Critical Studies and MA Contemporary Literature and Culture
• Anthony Shepherd, Team Leader for the MPhil/ PhD Research
• For any queries, please email us.