Academic staff
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Professor Joe Bray
Professor of Language and LiteratureSchool of English
Literary stylistics, specifically the narrative style of the eighteenth and early nineteenth-century novel. Book history, textual culture and experimental literature.
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j.bray@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 8489
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Dr Madeleine Callaghan
Senior Lecturer in Romantic LiteratureSchool of English
The poetry of Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, and Yeats. Romantic poets and prose writers. Milton and Spenser. Post-war British and Irish poetry, particularly Louis MacNeice and W. H. Auden.
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m.callaghan@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 8461
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Dr Katherine Ebury
Senior Lecturer in Modern LiteratureSchool of English
Modernism, literature and science, law and literature, and Irish Studies.
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k.ebury@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 6295
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Professor Susan M. Fitzmaurice
Vice President and Head of the Faculty of Arts and HumanitiesSchool of English
History of the English language, using methodological perspectives provided by historical pragmatics, historical sociolinguistics and computational linguistics.
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s.fitzmaurice@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 0213
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n.harwood@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 8464
Dr Valerie Hobbs
Senior LecturerSchool of English
Religious language, disciplinary discourse, English for Specific Purposes.
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v.hobbs@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 0228
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Dr Michael Kindellan
Lecturer in Modern LiteratureSchool of English
Modernist, mid-century and avant-garde writing.
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m.r.kindellan@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 0223
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Dr Agnes Lehoczky
Senior Lecturer in Creative WritingSchool of English
Contemporary poetry, prose and the hybrid; the prose poem, archive, collage, auto-theory, creative translation as emerging modes of polyphonic texts; phenomenology, psychogeography & critical theory.
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a.lehoczky@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 8467
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Dr Seth Mehl
Senior Lecturer in Digital HumanitiesSchool of English
Corpus semantics, including corpus methodology and lexical semantics; development research, including co-produced and community-led methodology; analysis of concepts and discourses in development work
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s.mehl@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 6115
Beth Melia-Leigh
University Teacher in TESOLSchool of English
TESOL teacher education and classroom pedagogy.
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beth.melia-leigh@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 8478
Dr Chris Montgomery
Senior Lecturer in DialectologySchool of English
Non-linguists’ perceptions of language variation. In particular, present research examines real-time reactions to regional speech, and in particular which features naïve listeners respond to.
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c.montgomery@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 8470
Dr Jane Mulderrig
Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, Director of International AffairsSchool of English
Critical discourse analysis in combination with political theory to investigate questions of identity, power, and representation in public life.
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j.mulderrig@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 8497
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Dr Marcus Nevitt
Senior Lecturer in Renaissance LiteratureSchool of English
Seventeenth-century literature. Cheap print, Ben Jonson, news writing in the seventeenth century, interregnum royalism and its connection to Restoration culture.
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m.nevitt@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 8487
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N.Northall@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 1796
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Professor Jonathan Rayner
Professor of Film StudiesSchool of English
Connections between cinema and landscape and the representation of navies, naval combat and naval history on film.Australasian cinema, genre films and auteur studies.
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j.r.rayner@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 8457
Dr Amber Regis
Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century LiteratureSchool of English
Victorian life writing. The work and legacies of radical and transgressive figures, particularly women writers and “queer” artists from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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a.regis@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 8469
Dr Tom Rutter
Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Renaissance DramaSchool of English
Renaissance literature, especially drama.
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t.rutter@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 8473
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Dr Ranjan Sen
Senior LecturerSchool of English
Sound change, and I focus particularly on theories of diachronic phonology and the interface of phonetics and phonology. Experimental phonetics, psycholinguistics, and language acquisition.
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ranjan.sen@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 0233
Dr Richard Steadman-Jones
Senior University TeacherSchool of English
Stylistics and textual analysis. Language, literature, and cross-cultural encounters. Collaborative research. Creative practice, especially regarding digital interactive narratives, VR and AI.
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r.d.steadman-jones@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 0218
Professor Brendan Stone
Professor of Social Engagement and the Humanities, University of Sheffield Deputy Vice-President for EducationSchool of English
'Research in practice' in which wide participation, 'co-production', and real-world outcomes are key drivers. The outputs include films, audio pieces, and exhibitions amongst others.
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b.stone@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 8495
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Dr Meredith Warren
Senior Lecturer in Biblical and Religious Studies, Director of the Sheffield Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies.School of English
Use of food and the sense of taste in biblical texts, especially in the New Testament and non-canonical literature.
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m.j.warren@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 0502
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maisha.wester@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 4848