Centre for Caribbean and Diaspora Studies
Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought
Goldsmiths Writers' Centre
Decadence Research Unit
Staff in the Department of English and Comparative Literature
Associate teaching staff
Academic staff Associate teaching staff Professional staff
Professor Joan Anim-Addo
Professor of Caribbean Literature and Culture
j.anim-addo (@gold.ac.uk)
Joan's research activities have been into Caribbean Literature and diaspora, women's writing and Black presence in Europe.
Professor Chris Baldick
Professor of English
c.baldick (@gold.ac.uk)
Chris' interests are in 20th century British and European writing, especially English poetry and fiction 1900-1950.
Dr Ros Barber
Senior Lecturer in Creative and Life Writing
r.barber (@gold.ac.uk)
As a writer and researcher, Ros works in the fields of Early Modern literary biography and Shakespeare studies.
Dr Sarah Barnsley
Senior Lecturer; Programme Director, University of London International Programmes (English)
s.barnsley (@gold.ac.uk)
Sarah's research includes American literature, Mary Barnard, modernism, poetry and poetics, and creative writing.
Professor Alcuin Blamires
Emeritus Professor of English Literature
english (@gold.ac.uk)
Alcuin's interests are Chaucer, fourteenth-century English literature and medieval debate about women in vernacular.
Dr Caroline Blinder
Reader in English and American Literature
c.blinder (@gold.ac.uk)
Caroline's work includes 19th and 20th Century American literature, in particular writing from the 1930s.
Professor Lucia Boldrini
Professor of English and Comparative Literature,
l.boldrini (@gold.ac.uk)
Lucia's principal areas of research are James Joyce, Dante and Modernist Medievalism as well as autobiography.
Professor Marie-Claude Canova-Green
Professor of French
m.canova-green (@gold.ac.uk)
Marie-Claude's research interests include seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature and culture.
Professor Helen Carr
Emeritus Professor of English
Helen focusses on American literature and poetry, women's writing and feminist and postcolonial theory.
Dr Alessia Cogo
Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics
a.cogo (@gold.ac.uk)
Alessia investigates the diversity of English, especially transcultural and transnational phenomena.
Professor Josh Cohen
Professor of Modern Literary Theory
j.cohen (@gold.ac.uk)
Josh's key interests are in psychoanalysis, literature and philosophy, especially Blanchot, Adorno and Benjamin.
Dr Rick Crownshaw
r.crownshaw (@gold.ac.uk)
Rick has worked extensively in the field of memory studies, focussing on the Anthropocene and American literature.
Professor Jane Desmarais
Professor of English, Deputy Head of Department and Director of Associate Teaching Staff
j.desmarais (@gold.ac.uk)
Her research is focussed on nineteenth-century literature and visual culture, specifically literary and Decadence.
Professor Maura Dooley
Professor of Creative Writing
m.dooley (@gold.ac.uk)
Maura specialises in creative writing, specifically in the form of contemporary poetry and short fiction.
Professor Alan Downie
a.downie (@gold.ac.uk)
Alan's interests range from Early Modern literature and politics, and the history of the book, newspapers and pamphlets.
Professor Peter Dunwoodie
Emeritus Professor of French Literature
Peter's research on French and English literature gives special reference to colonial and postcolonial writing.
Dr Miranda El-Rayess
m.el-rayess (@gold.ac.uk)
Miranda explores representations of consumer culture and the city through nineteenth and twentieth century literature.
Dr Isobel Hurst
Lecturer in English
i.hurst (@gold.ac.uk)
Isobel's research is in nineteenth and twentieth century poetry and fiction, and women's writing.
Dr Nicole King
n.king (@gold.ac.uk)
Nicole's research is on the literary representations of young adults, blackness and modernity in the United States.
Dr Padraig Kirwan
Senior Lecturer in the Literature of the Americas
p.kirwan (@gold.ac.uk)
Padraig's primary interest is contemporary Native American writing and tribal literatures of the Americas.
Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing
s.knight (@gold.ac.uk)
Stephen has research interests in creative writing and is a published writer of poetry and fiction.
Dr Andreas Kramer
Professor in German and Comparative Literature
a.kramer (@gold.ac.uk)
Andreas explores twentieth century German literature and culture, and the European Avant-garde.
Professor Frank Krause
Professor of German and Head of Department
f.krause (@gold.ac.uk)
Frank has written on German literature of the Enlightenment, the writer Emine Sevgi Özdamar and literary Expressionism.
Dr Tom Lee
Lecturer in Creative Writing
tom.lee (@gold.ac.uk)
Tom is a published author of fiction, short stories and memoirs and teaches creative writing to undergraduates.
Dr Carole Maddern
Lecturer in English Literature
c.maddern (@gold.ac.uk)
Carole's research interests include Old and Middle English and the origins and development of the English language.
Dr Sarah Maitland
Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies
s.maitland (@gold.ac.uk)
Professor David Margolies
Adam Mars-Jones
a.mars-jones (@gold.ac.uk)
Adam's books include the novels Pilcrow and Cedilla, he also writes regularly for the London Review of Books.
Professor Blake Morrison
Professor of Creative and Life Writing
b.morrison (@gold.ac.uk)
Blake is a poet, novelist and journalist, best known for two family memoirs and a study of the Bulger case, As If.
Dr Uttara Natarajan
Reader in English Literature
u.natarajan (@gold.ac.uk)
Uttara is interested in Romantic and Victorian literature, especially non-fictional prose and the history of ideas.
Dr Mairi Neeves
m.neeves (@gold.ac.uk)
Mairi has interests in fields of postcolonialism, trauma studies, life-writing, and Middle Eastern Literature.
Dr Julia Ng
Lecturer in Critical Theory and Co-Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought
j.ng (@gold.ac.uk)
Julia specialises in the links between modern mathematics, political thought, and theories of history and language.
Dr Tim Parnell
Senior Lecturer in English
t.parnell (@gold.ac.uk)
Tim's research focusses on Laurence Sterne and the diverse relationships between his writing and coeval print culture.
Dr Pia Pichler
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
p.pichler (@gold.ac.uk)
Pia has dedicated herself to promoting linguistics and, in particular, the study of language, society and culture.
Dr Geri Popova
Lecturer in Linguistics
g.popova (@gold.ac.uk)
Geri's research to date has been in theoretical linguistics, focussing on morphology and lexical semantics.
Ross Raisin
R.Raisin (@gold.ac.uk)
Ross is the award-winning author of three novels, including God's Own Country, and teaches creative and life writing.
Dr Jacqueline Rattray
Lecturer in Modern Literature
j.rattray (@gold.ac.uk)
A specialist in Spanish surrealism, Jacqueline's research centres on the experimental writings of avant-garde artists.
Phyllis Richardson
p.richardson (@gold.ac.uk)
As an author and journalist, Phyllis has written on architecture, urbanism and literature.
Deac Rossell
Lecturer in European Studies
d.rossell (@gold.ac.uk)
Deac's interests include the relationship between newspapers and film, and independent American filmmaking.
Professor Charlotte Scott
Professor of Shakespeare Studies, Senior Tutor
c.scott (@gold.ac.uk)
Charlotte's primary research interests focus on the relationship between drama and social history.
Dr Abigail Shinn
A.Shinn (@gold.ac.uk)
Abigail specialises in early modern English literature, especially in how different genres and cultural forms interact.
Dr Michael Simpson
Senior Lecturer in English Literature
m.simpson (@gold.ac.uk)
Michael's research interests span Romanticism, classical reception and postcolonialism.
Dr B J Sokol
B J is interested in the works of Shakespeare and other Renaissance writers, and twentieth-century American literature.
Professor Francis Spufford
f.spufford (@gold.ac.uk)
Francis' research covers children's literature, science fiction and fantasy, and economics as a form of storytelling.
Dr Tamar Steinitz
Lecturer in English and World Literature.
t.steinitz (@gold.ac.uk)
My research interests are in twentieth-century and contemporary literature, with a focus on world literature and transnational fiction.
Dr Nell Stevens
Nell Stevens is a writer of memoir and fiction and teaches creative writing.
Dr Carole Sweeney
Reader in Modern Literature
c.sweeney (@gold.ac.uk)
Carole's research interests include modernist literature, surrealism and modernist primitivism.
Professor Derval Tubridy
Professor in English Literature and Visual Culture
d.tubridy (@gold.ac.uk)
Derval's research explores the intersection between language, materiality and process in contemporary literature.
Professor Joan Turner
Dr Jack Underwood
j.underwood (@gold.ac.uk)
Jack is a poet and librettist, focussing on creative writing studies, post-structuralism and psychoanalytic theory.
Ardashir Vakil
a.vakil (@gold.ac.uk)
Ardashir is a novelist, poet and short story writer who has published two award-winning novels, Beach Boy and One Day.
Dr Erica Wagner
E.Wagner (@gold.ac.uk)
Erica is interested in American fiction and non-fiction, the integration of scientific and medical writing with fiction.
Dr Frances Wilson
F.Wilson (@gold.ac.uk)
Frances is a biographer and critic, currently writing a life of D H Lawrence.
Dr Benjamin Woolley
b.woolley (@gold.ac.uk)
Benjamin Woolley is a lecturer for the Foundation Year, Integrated Degree, English Literature. As a writer, his interests include early-modern biography and the uses of history in fiction.