School of English and American Studies
LECTURESHIP IN FILM STUDIES AND/OR TELEVISION STUDIES
Applications are invited for a fixed term lectureship available for two
and a half years from 31 January 2000, or as soon as possible thereafter,
in the Film and Television Studies sector of the School of English and
American Studies at the University of East Anglia.
UEA is one of the UK’s leading universities for Film and Television
Studies, with well-established and popular MA and PhD programmes, a very
lively research culture and BA courses in Film and English Studies, Film
and American Studies and Media Studies. The Film and Television Studies
sector is highly regarded for the quality of both its teaching (having
received a TQA score of 23) and its research (it was awarded 5A in the
1996 RAE). This post is a result of the University’s continuing selective
financial support for the sector.
We are looking for someone with a strong research profile and proven
teaching skills. Candidates should therefore already have experience of
degree-level teaching and should have begun to establish a reputation
through their publications. The successful candidate will be encouraged
both to develop their research and to teach on BA and MA programmes, where
the ability to teach one or more of the following would be an advantage:
British or American cinema or television, media and cultural theory,
cinema and social identity, video production. Candidates with expertise in
other areas are however encouraged to apply.
Salary will be on the Lecturer A scale, £17,238 to £22,579 per annum.
Interviews are expected to take place in early December.
For further discussion on the post, please contact Andrew Higson, Chair of
the Film and Television Studies sector, on 01603 593428, or e-mail:
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Further particulars and an application form should be obtained from the
Personnel Office, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ
(answerphone: 01603 593493, Email: [log in to unmask]), to be returned by
12 November 1999. Please quote reference number AC269.
LECTURESHIP IN FILM AND/OR TELEVISION STUDIES
SUMMARY
UEA invites applications for a sixth full-time member of faculty to join
its highly-rated Film & Television Studies team, based in the
interdisciplinary School of English and American Studies (EAS). The post
offers an exciting opportunity to participate in the development of the
sector. The person appointed will have a strong research profile and
proven teaching skills. She or he will be encouraged both to develop
their research and to teach on BA and MA programmes. On the teaching
front, we are looking for a lively and highly-motivated teacher who has a
wide range of interests appropriate to the post, and is ready to work with
our energetic and committed team during a period of expansion. The
ability to teach one or more of the following would be an advantage:
British or American cinema or television; media and cultural theory;
cinema and social identity; video production. Candidates with expertise
in other areas are however encouraged to apply. On the research front, she
or he should have a PhD, or be about to complete one, and must be able to
contribute positively to our strong Research Assessment Exercise profile;
this means having at least three substantial items of research published
by December 2000.
UEA has one of the longest-established film and television studies
programmes in the UK, and enjoys an international reputation in the field,
especially for its research on British and American cinema history, its MA
courses (including the unique Film Archiving option), and its large and
successful PhD programme. Among the BA degrees offered in the School of
English and American Studies are ‘Film and English Studies’, ‘Film and
American Studies’ and ‘Media Studies’. Recent external assessments by the
Higher Education Funding Council have been extremely positive, with a 5A
rating in the 1996 Research Assessment Exercise, and a score of 23 out of
24 for Teaching Quality (following an assessment visit in November 1996).
As part of its commitment to research excellence, the University recently
invested substantial funds in Film & Television Studies to help it to
build on the achievements of its research programme: this led to the
expansion of the full-time faculty base and the creation of a
Professorship in Film Studies, to which Charles Barr was appointed. This
new fixed-term post is the result of further selective investment by the
University in Film and Television Studies. The other members of faculty
are: Andrew Higson, Yvonne Tasker, Peter Krämer and Justine Ashby.
THE FILM AND TELEVISION STUDIES SECTOR AND THE SCHOOL
The interdisciplinary School of English and American Studies comprises
Film Studies, English Literature and Creative Writing, Drama, and American
Studies. The School has 38 members of faculty and over 1000 students, and
is organised into four subject-based sectors which are responsible to the
School Board for such matters as research strategy, curriculum planning,
teaching policy and admissions. The Dean of the School is appointed by
the Council of the University on the nomination of the School Board,
normally for a three year period. The current Dean is Jon Cook, a
Literature specialist who has also been regularly involved in
interdisciplinary teaching with Film and Television Studies faculty.
Teaching staff are supported by a team of 13 clerical, secretarial and
administrative staff.
Film and Television Studies is one of the School’s four subject-based
sectors, and currently has five full-time members of faculty, along with
several part-time tutors. The work of the sector has always been more
extensive than this, however, since several colleagues from other sectors,
and from other Schools in the University, contribute to the sector’s
programme of teaching and research or work in adjoining areas. In
addition, there is a temporary tutorship in film studies and a part-time
video and film production tutor, while several graduate students
contribute to the undergraduate teaching programme each year. The staff
and resources of the East Anglian Film Archive, one of the country’s
leading regional film archives, provide substantial input to our courses,
particularly at MA level. The Chairperson of the Film Studies sector is
elected by the members of the sector and normally holds the post for a
three-year period, taking responsibility for administrative tasks that
would traditionally fall to a departmental head. The current chair of the
sector is Dr Andrew Higson.
The School also has two research centres: the Arthur Miller Centre for
American Studies and the Centre for Creative and Performing Arts. Between
them, they have been responsible for organising an outstanding series of
celebrity talks by visiting writers of international renown.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH IN THE FILM & TELEVISION STUDIES SECTOR
UEA introduced options in film and television at undergraduate level in
1976, and set up a full-time MA in Film Studies in 1981. In 1990, the
sector established the Archiving strand of the MA, which is unique in the
world as a Master’s degree and which is made possible by the presence on
campus of the East Anglian Film Archive. The interdisciplinary BA in Film
and English Studies was introduced in 1986, the 4-year BA in Film and
American Studies in 1992. The latter course includes a year spent studying
at a University in the USA. Responsibility for the BA in Media Studies
also moved to the School in 1999, although this degree will be phased out
over the next three years. Teaching and research go hand in hand at UEA,
not least in the Film & Television Studies sector, where both
undergraduate and postgraduate film and television teaching is informed by
extensive staff research activity. The report of the 1996 Teaching Quality
Assessment made special mention of the “high-quality staff research and
professional interest feeding productively into teaching and learning”.
Teaching takes place within a modular framework which is university-wide
at undergraduate level and school-wide at postgraduate level. This enables
students to study film - and especially British and American cinema - as
part of a joint BA degree (Film and English Studies, Film and American
Studies), or as a specialist master's degree (Film Studies, with or
without the specialist Archiving component). Film can also be studied as
an adjunct to another subject, at either BA or MA level, and many of our
lecture-based units attract enrolments of over 100. The undergraduate
programmes include optional work in television studies, and in video and
film production. Production skills are also taught on the Archiving strand
of the MA. For the next three years, the sector will also be responsible
for provision of teaching on media theory and history for the Media
Studies degree. A variety of teaching modes are used, including lectures,
seminars (maximum 20 students), practical workshop teaching, and
one-to-one tutorials and supervisions. Almost all teaching units are
accompanied by film or video screenings, many of them using prints
supplied by the National Film and Television Archive.
Around 30 students are currently admitted to one or other of the two BA
Film degrees each year. In addition, we are currently responsible for
some 80 Media Studies students across the three years of their programme.
The admissions profile for Film and Television Studies underlines the
strength of the sector and its contribution to the overall prosperity of
the School. Despite recent national fluctuations, the quantity and
quality of applicants remain high, and the average A-level scores of
entrants, at more than 25 points, are among the highest in the University.
The teaching responsibilities of the person appointed will be subject to
negotiation and dependent upon the expertise of the successful applicant.
She or he will however be expected to contribute to introductory
undergraduate courses on film and/or television and/or media studies and
to survey lecture series on film and/or television and/or media history.
There will be the opportunity to develop specialist film, television or
media/cultural theory courses at the undergraduate level, as well as a
specialist seminar for the MA programme. There will also be the
opportunity to teach video production where the person appointed has
relevant experience. Other duties will include the supervision of BA and
MA dissertations.
The School has placed a special emphasis on taught MA programmes; they
attract excellent applicants, and have proved very successful in preparing
students for, and recruiting them to, doctoral research in the School. MA
programmes, typically a combination of coursework and dissertation, are
offered in all the main subject areas of the School: in addition to Film
Studies (with or without the Archiving option) there are programmes in
Creative Writing (including Screenwriting), Studies in Fiction; Gender and
Representation 1660-1830; Restoration and Eighteenth Century; American
Studies; Modernism; Medieval Writing; Life Writing; and Culture and
Communications (taught jointly with the School of Economic and Social
Studies). After Creative Writing, Film Studies is the largest of these
programmes, with more than 30 students admitted this year, of whom 9 are
taking the Archiving option - because of the intensive hands-on nature of
the archival teaching, numbers on that option have to be limited, and
competition for places is particularly strong. Most students do the MA on
a full-time basis, with several of them each year in receipt of funding
from the British Academy’s Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB). The
Sector also has a good record for attracting well-qualified international
students, many of them with grants from their own countries. Film
teaching at MA level is by seminar, with workshop sessions for Archive
students and one-to-one supervision for dissertations.
The Film and Television Studies sector has a very healthy post-graduate
research community, with 12-15 doctoral candidates at any given time
(constituting about 25% of the research students in the School, against
less than 15% of the staff). The completion rate has been impressive, with
ten successful completions over the last three years and others expected
very soon. Most of the past and present research falls into one or more of
the following areas: British cinema history; British television history;
gender and film; audiences, exhibition and reception studies; contemporary
American cinema; and ‘silent’ cinema. The sector has also been very
successful in attracting British Academy and AHRB funding or international
grants for its PhD students, underlining the extent to which we are
recognised as a centre of excellence by both the Higher Education Funding
Council and the AHRB. The sector is particularly proud of the fact that
around 30 graduates of its MA and PhD programmes now hold teaching posts
at Universities in the UK and abroad. The MA in Film Archiving has been
equally successful in placing graduates in archives and related posts,
likewise both in the UK and abroad. The research student community is
supported by a regular Film and Television Studies Research Seminar (which
also attracts participation from students on the two MA courses).
Following earlier conferences on Silent Cinema and on British films of the
1940s, a major conference on British Cinema was mounted in July 1998,
attracting to UEA more than 200 scholars from many countries.
Learning resources for Film and Television Studies are reasonably good.
Video playback facilities are available in all teaching rooms and faculty
offices. Lecture Theatres are equipped with professional film screening
equipment, and large screen video projection is also provided. Film and
Television Studies also has a dedicated teaching space with specialist
video playback, and 16mm and 8mm projection. A Film and Television Studies
Resource Room houses documentation, a small supplementary video
collection, specialist periodicals, video playback, and copying facilities
for preparation of teaching materials. The main University collection of
some 4,000 video titles is housed in the Library. The collection is
available for classroom teaching and student consultation, and has its own
catalogue.
Most teaching units at BA and MA level are accompanied by extensive
screenings of appropriate material, wherever possible in its original
format. The sector enjoys good relations with the National Film and
Television Archive, from whom it is able to hire a good proportion of the
films screened. A limited amount of VHS video and super-8mm film equipment
as well as the facilities of the campus television studio are available
for the small undergraduate production programme. MA Archiving students
have the use of the extensive facilities of the East Anglian Film Archive,
including their own small but fully equipped workspace and a range of
production equipment.
The Independent Television Commission is currently funding a research
project at the University. A Virtual TV Studio has been installed, and
Will Gould has been appointed as a Research Fellow to report on the use of
the studio.
The Library holds about 700,000 monographs and 2,500 current journal
titles. Of these, some 4,000 monographs are classified under Film Studies
and related media studies, while at least as many other relevant titles
are classified elsewhere in the Library's stock. The Library has total
holdings of more than 40 film and television related journals, of which 9
are current subscriptions. The Library also holds the Film Index
International CD-ROM. The Film Studies collection is managed by a subject
specialist Librarian.
Besides running busy undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, Film
Studies staff are all actively involved on the research front and publish
widely (major publications are listed in section VI). Film Studies
research is at present currently particularly well supported by the
University, and will remain so for at least the next three years thanks to
the University’s selective RAE-led investment in this area. Reasonably
substantial funds are available in the School to support staff research
activity and help is given to faculty applying for external research
funding from bodies such as the AHRB.
CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT
The candidates to whom appointment is offered will receive a full
statement of the terms and conditions of appointment but it may be
appropriate at this stage to draw attention to a number of such conditions:
1. Duties
A member of faculty is required :
(a) to promote the study of his/her subject by teaching and research;
(b) to assume such duties and responsibilities appropriate to the
appointment as may be assigned to him/her by the governing bodies of the
University or by the Dean or Director, as appropriate, acting on their
behalf;
(c) to examine without further payment in the examination for degrees and
diplomas of the University which required to do so.
2. Residence
Members of faculty will normally be expected to reside within 50
kilometres of the University.
The post is available from 31 January 2000, or as soon as possible
thereafter and salary will be on the Lecturer A scale, £17,238 to £22,579
per annum. Interviews will take place on 9 December 1999. Interviewees
will also be required to deliver a presentation on some aspect of their
current research on 8 December 1999.
Informal enquiries will be welcomed by the Dean, Jon Cook (direct line:
01603 592274; e-mail: [log in to unmask]) or the Chair of the Film and
Television Studies sector, Dr. Andrew Higson (direct line: 01603 593428;
e-mail: [log in to unmask]). For further information about the University
of East Anglia visit our website: http://www.uea.ac.uk/welcome.html
Applications, which must include a completed application form, quoting
reference AC269 and three copies of your covering letter and curriculum
vitae, should be returned to the Personnel Office, University of East
Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, with the equal opportunities monitoring form, by
no later than 12 November 1999. In naming three referees in your
application you are requested to give only the names of those who can
immediately be approached. Applications will not be acknowledged unless a
stamped addressed envelope/postcard is supplied. Candidates who have not
heard by 17 December 1999 should assume their application has been
unsuccessful.
CURRENT STAFF AND THEIR RESEARCH INTERESTS
A list of faculty in the School of English and American Studies is given
below, with an indication of their research interests and recent
publications.
Film Studies faculty are listed first; other colleagues with teaching
and/or research interests in film or television are asterisked.
Charles Barr, BA, Professor of Film: Interests include British film and
television history; early cinema; World War Two cinema; relations between
film, theatre and literature; Hitchcock. Publications include: Ealing
Studios (Studio Vista, 1977, new editions 1993, 1999); All Our Yesterdays:
90 Years of British Cinema (as editor; BFI Publishing, 1986); 'Dodge
City', in Ian Cameron and Douglas Pye, eds., The Movie Book of the Western
(Studio Vista/Cassell, 1996); 'They think it's all over: the dramatic
legacy of live television', in John Hill, ed., Big Picture, Small Screen:
The Relations Between Film and Television (John Libbey Media/University of
Luton Press, 1996); and English Hitchcock (Cameron and Hollis, 1999)
Andrew Higson, BEd, MA, PhD: Senior Lecturer in Film Studies. Current
interests include British cinema history, contemporary British cinema and
television, the heritage film, national cinema. Recent publications
include: contributor/co-editor (with Richard Maltby), ‘Film Europe’ and
‘Film America’: Cinema, Commerce and Cultural Exchange, 1920-1939 (Univ.
of Exeter Press, 1999); contributor/editor, Dissolving Views: Key Writings
on British Cinema (Cassell, 1996); Waving The Flag: Constructing a
National Cinema in Britain (Oxford University Press, 1995); 'British
Cinema', in Hill & Church-Gibson, eds., The Oxford Guide to Film Studies
(Oxford University Press, 1998); 'Nationality and the media', in Briggs &
Cobley, eds., The Media: An Introduction (Addison Wesley Longman, 1997).
Yvonne Tasker, BA, MPhil, PhD: Senior Lecturer in Film Studies. Current
interests include authorship and contemporary cinema; New Hollywood;
popular genres; gender, race and representation; lesbian, gay and queer
theory and cinema. Publications include: Working Girls: Gender and
Sexuality in Popular Cinema (Routledge, 1998), Spectacular Bodies: Gender,
Genre and the Action Cinema (Routledge, 1993), ‘Fists of Fury: Discourses
of Race and Masculinity in the Martial Arts Cinema’ in Uebel and
Stecopoulos (eds) Race and the Subect of Masculinity (Duke University
Press, 1997); ‘Approaches to the New Hollywood’ in Morley, Curran and
Walderdine (eds) Cultural Studies and Communications (Edward Arnold, 1996)
Peter Kramer, BA, MA: Lecturer in Film Studies. Current interests include
American film history, early cinema, contemporary Hollywood, stars and
acting, comedy. Publications include: 'Star Wars', History Today (March
1999); 'Women First: Titanic (1997), Action-Adventure Films and
Hollywood's Female Audience', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and
Television, 18:4 (October 1998); 'Bad Boy: Notes on a Popular Figure in
American Cinema, Culture and Society, 1895-1905', in John Fullerton, ed.,
Celebrating 1895: The Centenary of Cinema (John Libbey 1998);
'Post-Classical Hollywood', in John Hill and Pamela Church Gibson, eds.,
The Oxford Guide to Film Studies (Oxford University Press 1998).
Justine Ashby, BA, MA: Lecturer in Television & Film Studies. Current
interests include British cinema and cultural studies, women filmmakers,
feminist theory and women's popular genres. Recent and forthcoming
publications include contribution to Dissolving Views: Key Writings on
British Cinema (Cassell, 1996); an edited collection, British Cinema, Past
and Present (Routledge, 2000); essays on gender and contemporary British
cinema and an edited anthology on feminism and authorship.
***
Christopher Bigsby, BA, MA , PhD - Professor of American Literature
Postwar American Drama: Arthur Miller; Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
American and English Fiction; Creative Writing. He is the author of Modern
American Drama (CUP,1992); he has edited The Portable Arthur Miller
(Viking & Penguin, 1995); and he has co-edited, with Don Wilmeth, The
Cambridge History of American Theatre, Vol. 1 (CUP, 1998). He has
published three novels, two which take as their departure point the
fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the last of which, Still Life
concerned photography and the Holocaust. He is currently preparing a book
on contemporary American playwrights.
Jo Catling, MA, DPhil Lecturer in English Literature. Interests in
modernism; Rilke, women’s writing.
Sarah Churchwell, BA, MA, DPhil Lecturer in American Literature.
Research and teaching interests bring together American literature,
popular culture, and gender. Specialist in literature of the 20th
century, particularly by women, with strong interests in American popular
writing (across the centuries) and in film.
Recent and forthcoming publications include: ‘The Naked Truth: Pathography
and the Dissection of Marilyn Monroe” Auto/Biography Studies,
(forthcoming) 11 entries in Lorna Sage, ed. Cambridge Guide to Women’s
Writing in English (Cambridge, 1999); “Ted Hughes and the Corpus of Sylvia
Plath”, Criticism (Winter 1998).
Robert Clark, BA, MA, PhD, FRSA) - Senior Lecturer in American and English
Literature
English, American and European fiction since 1680; eighteenth century and
postmodernism, modern drama; psychoanalysis and cultural materialism;
electronic publishing. Recent and forthcoming publications: Jane Austen,
Patriarchy and Power (Macmillan, 1999); editor of Daniel Defoe’s Roxana
(Everyman 1998); edited with Tom Healy, The Arnold Anthology of British
and Irish Literature in English (1997); with Constanza del Rio and Juan
Suarez, Reading “The Piano” Psychoanalytically,’ in ‘Union in Partition:
Essays in Honour of Jeanne Delbaere ed. Gilbert Debusscher and Marc
Maufort. (Bruxelles 1997); editor of Jane Austen’s Emma (Dent: Everyman,
1995); editor, New Casebook on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and
Prejudice (Macmillan, 1994). Editor of James Fenimore Cooper, The
Deerslayer (Dent: Everyman, 1993). ‘Literary Aesthetics, Literary
Politics’, English: the Journal of the English Association 42:174 (Autumn
1993) pp. 253-66; designer and general editor, Annotated Bibliography for
English Studies (50 volume CD-ROM database appearing twice yearly since
April 1997).
*Jon Cook, BA, MA - Senior Lecturer in English Literature. Dean of the
School 1999-2002
Romanticism; the relation of poetry and theory; cultural criticism;
modern poetry; literature and philosophy. He is the editor of William
Hazlitt: Selected Writings (OUP, 1991); new edition forthcoming November
1998); a contributor to The Penguin History of Literature, The Romantic
Period ed. D.Pirie (Penguin, 1994); and to a collection on The Prelude,
edited N Woods, (Open University Press, 1994). He is currently writing a
book called Poetry and Modernity, which offers a cultural history of
poetry from the Romantic to the Present. He has recently published an
essay on metaphor in The Book of Models, edited R. Gullstrom-Hughes and J.
Monk, Systems Architecture Group, Open University (1998) and has work in
the press on Hazlitt and Journalism and on the ‘Techno-University’. He is
a member of the International Advisory Board for the Amsterdam School of
Cultural Analysis.
David Corker, BA, PhD - Lecturer in American Literature
Romantic philosophy and American transcendentalism (Kant and Emerson);
masculinity and gender studies; intellectual history and American
literature.
Richard Crockatt, BA, MA, D.Phil - Reader in American History
His main current interest is the history of US foreign policy. He is the
author of The Fifty years' War: The United States and the Soviet Union in
World Politics 1941-1991 (Routledge, 1995), editor of British Documents on
Foreign Affairs, the Foreign Office Confidential Print Part III,
1940-1945, Series C: North America, University Publications of America, 5
volumes, forthcoming 1999, and has written articles on American foreign
policy, and other aspects of 20th century American history and
international relations. He is currently preparing a book entitled The
United States in the World Since 1776: An Essay in International History
for Routledge.
Adam Fairclough, BA, MA, PhD - Professor of American History
American Civil Rights struggles in the twentieth century, with a special
interest in Martin Luther King. He is author of Martin Luther King Jr.
(Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994) and Race and Democracy: the
Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972 (Athens: University of
Georgia Press, 1995); he is co-editor with Horace Mann Bond and Julia W.
Bond of The Star Creek Papers: Washington Parish and the Lynching of
Jerome Wilson (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997). He is
currently preparing a book-length survey of the struggle for civil rights
covering the 1892-1968 period for Viking Penguin.
Jacqueline Fear-Segal, BA, MA, PhD - Lecturer in American History
Late nineteenth- and twentieth-century American social and intellectual
history; Native Americans; Immigration, Multi-culturalism and the process
of Americanisation; History of Childhood. Her recent publications
include: ‘Two Worlds Entwined: Shawnee Chief and United States Citizen’ in
Borderlines, Vol. 3, No 4 (1996). ‘The Twenties’ in Malcolm Bradbury and
Howard Temperley, eds, Introduction to American Studies, London, Longman,
(third edition) 1998. She is currently working on a book on Indian
boarding schools.
Anthony Frost, BA, MA - Lecturer in Drama
Main interests are improvisation, directing, play writing, Theatre and
Virtual Reality, Theatre and Violence, Classical Drama, Modern British,
European and Far Eastern theatre traditions. Works include: 'British
Drama 1960-1990' in European Theatre 1960-1990: Cross Cultural
perspectives, ed R. Yarrow (Routledge, 1992) and 'Gilgamesh: Improvised,
Aleatoric, Ungendered Play Production', Studies in Theatre Production
(1994). Currently he is editing a volume on Theatre and Theories and
preparing a monograph on ‘Theatre Histories’ commissioned by Routledge.
He is the author of a number of original plays, including ‘Shambhala’
(1997) and
‘Poppy Tea’ (1998).
*Anthony Gash, BA - Lecturer in Drama
Chair of Drama Sector and founder of the MA in Theatre: Text and
Production. His main interests are in Theatre Directing, English Medieval
and Early Modern Drama; and in Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama, and
Philosophy. He has also worked on the Menippean Tradition. Works include:
'Carnival and the Poetics of Reversal' in New Directions in Theatre, ed J.
Hilton (Macmillan, 1995) and ‘Shakespeare Carnival and the Sacred: The
Winter’s Tale and Measure for Measure’ in Shakespeare and Carnival after
Bakhtin ed. R Knowles, Macmillan, 1998. His current research is on
Shakespere and Plato, and his book on this subject is shortly to be
published by Routledge.
Eric Homberger, BA PhD - Reader in American Literature
Main interest in late nineteenth and twentieth century American culture
and in particular the social and cultural history of New York City and the
(left-wing) social context of post-war American literature. He has also
worked on American poetry. He is the author of The Penguin Historical
Atlas of North America (Penguin, 1995) and Scenes From The Life of a City:
Corruption and conscience in Old New York, (Yale UP, 1994) and Historical
Atlas of New York City, (Henry Holt, 1994). Main current work in progress
is work class and society in nineteenth-century New York City.
George Hyde, BA, PhD - Senior Lecturer in English and Comparative
Literature
Main interests: Modernism, Eastern European writing, D.H. Lawrence, Modern
Drama, and Theory (especially Translation Theory). He has published
translations of Mayakovsky and numerous Polish authors, and has a book on
Russian Formalism in press. Other books include a collection of Polish
short stories (editor and translator), and two books on D.H. Lawrence.
Currently Visiting Professor at Kyoto Women’s University, Japan.
*Allan Lloyd-Smith, BA, MA, PhD - Senior Lecturer in American Literature
Main interests in nineteenth and twentieth century American Fiction and
the American Gothic. He is has also written about Psychoanalysis and the
Uncanny and the relation between Gothic and Postmodernism. He has
published essays on Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Miller, Edith Wharton, Henry
James, and chapters on contemporary American culture in the O.U.’s series,
The United States in the Twentieth Century: Culture (Hodder and
Stoughton), and in The Introduction to American Studies (eds Bradbury and
Temperley). Books include: Eve Tempted: Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1984; Uncanny
American Fiction (Macmillan, 1984); The Crucible (Penguin cd-rom);
Gothick: Origins and Innovations, coedited with Victor Sage (Rhodopi,
1994) and Modern Gothic: A Reader, co-edited with Victor Sage (MUP, 1997).
His current work in progress concerns the role of nostalgia in American
culture.
Paul Magrs, BA, PhD - Lecturer in Creative Writing
His main interest is in contemporary fiction and contemporary theory,
particularly Camp and Queer Theory. He is a prolific novelist and short
story writer, bringing together the traditions of fantasy, myth, the
gothic, and social realism. He is the author of Could it be Magic?
(Vintage 1998), Marked For Life (Vintage, 1997), Does It Show, (Vintage,
1997) and Playing Out, (Vintage,1996). He has also written on Angela
Carter. Recent projects completed include a book on Shirley Bassey. He is
currently working on a book about Fred and Rose West.
Timothy Marshall, BA, MA, PhD - Senior Lecturer in English Literature
His main interest is in the social context of nineteenth and twentieth
century English Literature with special reference to the underworld, the
poor laws and the macabre politics of certain medical contexts,
particularly dissection. He has re-orientated the literary Gothic into
social and historical contexts usually thought more suitable for realism.
He is the author of Murdering To Dissect: Graverobbing, Frankenstein, and
the Anatomy Literature, (MUP, 1995) and 'Frankenstein and the 1832 Anatomy
Act' in Gothick: Origins and Innovations, ed A. Lloyd-Smith and V. Sage,
(Rhodopi, 1994). Current projects include a book about later nineteenth
century literature and the Poor Laws.
Simon Middleton, BA, MA, PhD - Lecturer in American History
Colonial American social history and early modern political theory. In
particular, the history of workers and the possibilities for social
history combined with the study of languages of politics and law during
the transition to capitalism. He is co-editor, with Gerald Sider, of ‘The
Praxis of Anthropology and History’ in a special issue of Radical History
Review, 65 (Cambridge University Press, 1996.) He is currently preparing
a book on the changing position of artisans in colonial New York.
Andrew Motion, BA, MA - Professor of Creative Writing
Nineteenth and Twentieth century poetry and prose, particularly
romanticism, biography and criticism. A poet, editor and writer of
fiction, he is the author of Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life (Faber, 1993)
and Keats (Faber, 1997); Salt Water (Faber, 1997) and he has edited
William Barnes: Selected Poems (Penguin, 1994). He is currently writing a
biography of the early nineteenth-century painter-poisoner Thomas
Griffiths Wainewright. Professor Motion was appointed Poet Laureate in
May 1999.
Denise Riley, BA, MA, PhD - Reader in English Literature
Contemporary poetry, philosophy and linguistics, feminist social history
in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A poet and critic, a
selection of her poetry has appeared in the Conductors of Chaos anthology,
ed Iain Sinclair (Picador, 1995) and in Penguin Modern Poets Vol. 10
(1996). The poetry combines theory and practice - especially in the area
of modern theories of the self and the nature of the lyric. She is the
author of Am I That Name? Feminism and the Category of AWomen in History
(Macmillan, 1988), and 'Is There Linguistic Guilt', Critical Quarterly,
1997; and edited and introduced Poets on Writing: Britain, 1970-91
(Macmillan, 1992). She is currently preparing a book on A Condition of
England for Macmillan and a new collection of poetry is soon to be
published by Reality Street Editions. Work in progress includes a big book
about self-description.
Michael Robinson, BA, DPhil - Professor of Scandinavian Studies.
Research and teaching interests in Ibsen and Strindberg, European drama
and theatre studies post 1870; autobiography; the relationship between
literature and music; writing and race. Recent publications include:
Strindberg's Essays, translated and edited with an introduction and
commentary (Cambridge University Press, 1996). [Awarded Bernard Shaw
Prize, 1997]; August Strindberg, Miss Julie and Other Plays, edited and
translated with an introduction and notes (Oxford University Press, 1998);
Studies in Strindberg (Norvik Press, 1998).
Nordic Letters 1870_1910, Norvik Press, 1999.
Lorna Sage, BA, MA - Professor of English Literature
Twentieth Century writing, particularly pre- and postwar prose fictions by
women, Platonism, Biography and Life-Writing. Reviews regularly for the
London Review of Books and the New York Times Book Review, both
contemporary fiction and theory. She is the author of Women in the House
of Fiction (Macmillan, 1992), and Angela Carter, (Northcote Press, 1994).
She has edited Flesh and the Mirror: Essays on the Art of Angela Carter,
(Virago, 1994) and has edited Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out for Oxford
UP, 1992 and Katherine Mansfield: The Garden Party and other stories,
Penguin Classics. She is currently completing an autobiography and
editing the Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English.
*Victor Sage, BA, MA, PhD - Reader in English Literature
Nineteenth and twentieth century writing, contemporary prose fiction and
poetry, Irish Writing, Horror, Protestantism and the Gothic, Creative
Writing. He is the author of numerous essays on the Gothic tradition, and
has co-edited Gothick: Origins and Innovations (Rhodipi, 1994) and Modern
Gothic: A Reader (MUP, 1997). A novelist and short-storywriter, he is the
author of two novels, A Mirror For Larks (Secker, 1993) and Black Shawl
(Secker, 1995). He has written on Blake, Dickens, Beckett, Katharine
Mansfield etc. Work in progress includes fiction, a monograph on Sheridan
LeFanu and new editions of several gothic novels.
*Roger Sales, BA, PhD - Professor of English Literature
Renaissance and Nineteenth century Underworld literature, the interface
between fiction and social history, Regency and fin de siecle camp and
decadent authors, Dickens and Mayhew. He is the author of Christopher
Marlowe (Macmillan, 1994), Jane Austen and representations of Regency
England (Routledge, 1994/7). Other recent publications include essays on
literary adaptation for television, popular Romance, genre fiction and
Victorian underworld writings.
Clive Scott, MA, MPhil, DPhil, FBA. Professor of European Literature.
Research and teaching interests
in French and comparative versification and poetics; the relationship
between literature and the visual arts
(Impressionism and Symbolism); the literature of travel; photography.
Recent publications include: The
Poetics of French Verse: Studies in Reading (Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1999); The Spoken Image:
Photography and Language (London: Reaktion Books, 1998); ‘Mallarme’s
Mercurial E’, Forum for Modern
Language Studies, 34/1; ‘The Mirage of Critical Distance: The Mallarme of
Yves Bonnefoy’, in Michael
Temple (ed). Meetings with Mallarme in Contemporary French Culture,
(Exeter;: Exeter University Press,
1998) ‘Translating Poetry’, in Olive Classe (ed)., Encyclopedia of
Literary Translation, (London:
Fitzroy Dearborn).
Max Sebald, LesL, MA, PhD, Drhabil. Professor of European Literature.
Teaching and research interests include: the culture of the Weimar
Republic; post-war and contemporary German writing; nineteenth- and
twentieth century Austrian authors; literature and psychopathology.
Novelist. Recent publications include:
The Emigrants, (English translation of Die Ausgewanderten, (Harvill
Press, London 1996);
Logis in einen Landhaus, (six essays on 19th and 20th Century German
Literature), (Hanser,Munich, 1998); The Rings of Saturn (English
translation of Die Ringe de Saturn), (Harvill Press, London 1998);
Luftkrieg und Literatur (essays on Post-War German writing), Hanser,
Munich, 1999)
Catherine Sharrock, BA, MA, PhD - Lecturer in English Literature
18th century literature and culture, with particular interests in the
discourses of gender, sexuality, medicine and national identity. Along
with essays and articles published in these areas, she has also edited a
special issue of Paragraph on ‘Gender and Sexuality’ (17:1, 1994). She is
currently engaged with an interdisciplinary study of the 18th century,
Pathologising Bodies, and a co-edited collection of essays on the
‘marginal’ 18th century. Her work in the 19th century includes
Nineteenth-Century Women Poets. An Oxford Anthology (edited with Isobel
Armstrong and Joseph Bristow (OUP, 1996), and the forthcoming Mary Shelley
(Northcote Press).
Lyndsey Stonebridge, BA, PhD - Lecturer in English Literature
Modernism, twentieth-century literature, literature and war,
psychoanalysis, Melanie Klein, art history and traumal theory. She is the
author of The Destructive Element: British Psychoanalysis and Literature
(Macmillan, 1998) and editor (with John Phillips) Reading Melanie Klein
(Routledge, 1988). Essays and articles have appeared in New Formations,
Paragraph, History Workshop Journal and Diacritics. Fellow, Society for
Humanities Cornell University (1997-8) and committee member of the London
Modernism Research Seminar. Currently researching a book project: ‘Blitz,
Psychoanalysis, Literature and World War Two’, and ‘Thoughts for the Times
on Psychoanalysis and History’, an essay collection, editor with Suzanne R
Stewart
*Val Taylor, BA - Lecturer in Drama
Theory and practice of dramatic performances in theatre, film and
television; the work of the director, designer and actor; literary
adaptations; popular television. Her publications include: ‘Body in
Mind: Exploring Pre-Expressivity’ in Contemporary Theatre Review (Vol. 7
pt. 1, 1997). ‘Altered Images: Theatrical and Filmic Space in Top Girls’
in J. Ridgman, ed. Boxed Sets: Television Representations of Theatre (Arts
Council of England/John Libbey Media/University of Luton Press, 1998).
She has recently completed two chapters for a book on Theatre Theories,
and is currently working on a book on US television series drama and US
culture in the late 1980s and 1990s.
Janet Todd, BA, MA, PhD Professor of English Literature
Seventeenth and eighteenth century women's writing and Restoration
literature, the growth of sensibility, the origins of the novel, the works
of Aphra Behn, Mary Wollstoncraft and Jane Austen. She is the author of
Gender, Art, and Death (Polity Press, 1993) and the editor of The Complete
Works of Aphra Behn, (Pickering and Ohio State UP, 1992-6), Aphra Behn
Studies, (Cambridge UP, 1996) and The political Writings of Mary
Wollstonecraft (Oxford UP, 1994).
Her most recent book is The Secret Life of Aphra Behn (Deutsch 1996 and
Rutgers 1997) and she is now completing a biography of Mary Wollstonecraft
for Weidenfeld & Nicolson. She is the coeditor of the journal Women’s
Writing.
Peter Womack, BA, PhD
Renaissance Drama,especially Shakespeare; the relation between theatrical
form and political and cultural history in all periods of English drama.
Author of English Drama: A Cultural History, co-written with S. Shepherd
(Blackwell, 1996), 'Imagining Communities' in Culture and History
1350-1600, edited, D. Aers (Harvester, 1992), Improvement and Romance:
Constructing the Myth of the Highlands (Macmillan, 1989), Ben Jonson
(Blackwell, 1986). Work in progress includes: Shakespeare, narrative
theatre and the sea.
Ralph Yarrow, BA, MA, PhD - Lecturer in Drama and Comparative Literature
European and Comparative interests in Literature, Drama and Far Eastern
Traditions; Religious traditions of the Far East and their relations with
literature and reading processes; the study of consciousness, drama, and
performance theory and practice. His most recent publications include
Consciousness, Literature and Theatre: theory and beyond (Macmillan, 1997)
co-authored with P. Malekin; ‘Performance and Play: Strategies for Active
Learning in English Language, Culture and Society (Proceedings of the
Third Symposium of Tempus, edited by Rob McBride, UEA 1996); and
‘Grotowski, Holiness and the Pre-Expressive’ in Contemporary Theatre
Review (1997). He is currently working on a book on Indian Theatre.
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