All staff are active researchers and these publications reflect the work that we do in the Department of English and Film, spanning North American and transatlantic literature back to the nineteenth century, as well as film, television, popular music, critical theory, video games, and comics and graphic novels.
Dr Jason Baskin
Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature
Research interests: modern and contemporary literature, especially 1945 to present; American literature; African American, multiethnic, and contemporary global literature; phenomenology and philosophies of embodiment; Marxism and critical theory; cultural geography and critical urban studies
Dr Joanna Freer
Lecturer in American Literature
Research interests: literature and counter-communities; literary representations of gender and sex; intersections between politics and economy in fiction
Professor Helen Hanson
Associate Professor in Film History
Research interests: film history; film style and technology; film sound and music; adaptation; gender issues
Professor James Lyons
Associate Professor of Film Studies
Research interests: contemporary American film and television; American indie culture (especially film, comics, and music); theories of popular culture and taste
Dr Ellen McWilliams
Senior Lecturer
Research interests: contemporary women’s fiction; the Bildungsroman; Irish, American, and Canadian literature; writing and diasporic identity
Professor Sinéad Moynihan
Associate Professor in American and Atlantic Literatures
Research interests: twentieth-century literature; American literature; Irish literature; race; transnationalism
Professor Vike Martina Plock
Professor in Twentieth-Century Literature
Research interests: literary modernism; medicine; James Joyce; interwar women’s writing; consumer culture; fashion
Dr Debra Ramsay
Lecturer in Film Studies
Research interests: war, memory, and media, with particular focus on paratexts, audiences, technologies, and industries; contemporary theories of media and memory
Dr Mark Steven
Senior Lecturer in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature
Research interests: narrative responses to capitalism, socialism, and the possibility of communism; modernism; the aesthetics of horror; Marxism
Dr Rob Turner
Lecturer in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature
Research interests: American literature; postmodernism; the epic; (in)authenticity; African American utopian and speculative fiction; the poetics of hip-hop
Professor Paul Williams
Associate Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture
Research interests: comics and graphic novels; the United States in the long 1970s; cultural responses to alternative psychotherapies; race and ethnicity; postapocalyptic fictions
Professor Linda Ruth Williams
Professor in Film Studies
Research interests: post-classical American cinema; British cinema; classical Hollywood; psychoanalytic critical and cultural theory; gender and culture; representations of sexuality and the history of censorship; children and childhood in Spielberg; contemporary women filmmakers; film exhibition and curation