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Departmental officers

Professor Jennie Batchelor

Head of Department

Research interests:

  • Eighteenth Century and Romantic
  • Gender and Women's Studies
  • Visual and Material Culture

Dr Janine Bradbury

Chair of Undergraduate Teaching

Research interests:

  • American Literature
  • Creative Writing
  • Film Studies
  • Modern and Contemporary
  • Poetry and Poetics

Professor Matthew Campbell

Chair of Board of Studies

Research interests:

  • Irish Literature and Irish Studies
  • Modern and Contemporary
  • Poetry and Poetics
  • Victorian

Dr Olivia Carpenter

Careers and Employability Officer

Research interests:

  • American Literature
  • Eighteenth Century and Romantic
  • Gender and Women's Studies
  • Victorian

Professor Mary Fairclough

Research Chair

Research interests:

  • Eighteenth Century and Romantic

Dr Nicola McDonald

Deputy Head of Department: Learning and Teaching

Research interests:

  • Gender and Women's Studies
  • Histories of the Book
  • Medieval

Professor Emilie Morin

Graduate Chair

Research interests:

  • Global and Postcolonial
  • Irish Literature and Irish Studies
  • Modern and Contemporary
  • Translation

Dr Alison O'Byrne

Senior Lecturer

Admissions Tutor and Chair, Admissions Committee

Research interests:

  • Eighteenth Century and Romantic

Dr Melissa Oliver-Powell

Chair of Board of Examiners

Research interests:

  • Film Studies
  • Gender and Women's Studies
  • Global and Postcolonial
  • Modern and Contemporary

Dr Jane Raisch

Senior Lecturer

Chair of EDI and Athena Swan

Director of Renaissance Research School

Research interests:

  • Classical Literature
  • Histories of the Book
  • Renaissance

Professor Elizabeth Tyler

Deputy Head of Department: Research

Research interests:

  • Gender and Women's Studies
  • Global and Postcolonial
  • Histories of the Book
  • Medieval
  • Translation

Dr Claire Westall

Senior Lecturer

Director of Postgraduate Teaching

Research interests:

  • Environmental Humanities
  • Global and Postcolonial
  • Modern and Contemporary