English Literature

Dr David Arnold

Expertise: 20th century American poetry; literary theory; literature and the environment

Current student projects:
• An eco-critical study of the poetry of Edward Thomas and Robert Frost

Dr Nicoleta Cinpoes

Expertise: Shakespeare performed, edited, filmed, recycled; European and Romanian Shakespeare; Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama

Dr Tricia Connell

Expertise: Contemporary and 20th Century Literature; Women’s Writing; Postcolonial Writing; Feminist and Postcolonial Literary Theory; Language Studies; Gender and Popular Fiction

Dr Andreas Mueller

Expertise: political philosophy and rhetoric in eighteenth-century literature; the poetry of the period 1650-1750; Daniel Defoe

Current student projects:
• Englishness and Otherness in the Works of Daniel Defoe
• Politics, Identity and Representation in English Women's Landscape Poetry, 1650-1750

Dr John Parham

Expertise: environmentalism; eco-criticism; cultural identity

Dr Jill Terry

Expertise: Contemporary American Culture and Fiction

Professor Jean Webb

Expertise: Children’s literature

Current student projects:
• Constructions of the fat child in Jackie magazine and British juvenile fiction, 1960-2010
• Muslim Children, Fiction and Personal Understanding: Children's Islamic Literature in Britain, USA and Canada Since 1990
• The relationship of the work of G.A. Henty to Historical Fiction for Children in Britain 1814-1903