Staff

In alphabetical order:

  • Dr Michael Bennett
    History
    English (later British) empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

  • Professor Michael Braddick
    History
    Early modern England, state in early modern England, 1550-1700

  • Dr Joe Bray
    English
    Stylistics, The 18th century Novel, experimental literature

  • Dr Alan Bryson
    English, HRI
    Early modern British history, Renaissance literature

  • Dr James Brown
    History, HRI
    Drinking and sociability in early modern England

  • Dr Archie Cornish
    English
    Spenser, Nashe, precarity

  • Dr Kate Davison
    History
    Lecturer in Long Eighteenth-Century History

  • Dr Katherine Fennelly
    Archaeology
    Early modern archaeology, public architecture, print culture, and materiality

  • Professor Jim Fitzmaurice (Emeritus)
    English Renaissance literature, early women writers, English country houses

  • Professor Susan Fitzmaurice
    Vice President and Head of Faculty; English
    Historical sociolinguistics, historical pragmatics, world Englishes

  • Dr Tom Harrison
    Early modern drama, classical reception, Ben Jonson

  • Dr Iona Hine
    English, HRI
    Philology, bible translation, reformations

  • Professor Angela Hobbs
    Philosophy
    Ancient Greek philosophy, ethics

  • Dr Sharon Howard
    History, HRI
    Early modern crime and law, British history, women’s and gender history

  • Professor Simon Keefe
    Music
    Late 18th c. style and aesthetics, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven

  • Dr Tom Leng
    History
    Intellectual history, commercial discourse and policy in 17th c. England

  • Dr Erin Maglaque
    History
    History of early modern Europe, history of the Mediterranean

  • Dr Hamish Mathison
    English
    Robert Burns, print culture, Scottish poetry, 18th c. literature

  • Dr David McCallam
    SLC, French
    18th c. French literature, culture, history of ideas, French Revolution

  • Dr Seth Mehl
    English, HRI
    Corpus linguistics, world Englishes, early modern English

  • Professor Anthony Milton
    History
    17th c. Anglo-Dutch relations, royalism, Church of England 1603-1700

  • Professor John Moreland
    Archaeology
    The use of writing, the role of images, archaeology of the Reformation

  • Dr Marcus Nevitt
    English
    Cheap Print, literature of the 1650s, Royalism, 17th c. journalism

  • Dr Caroline Dodds Pennock
    History
    Aztec, Spanish American and Atlantic history, cultural encounters

  • Dr Anna Reynolds
    English
    16th and 17th century literature; material culture; waste paper

  • Dr Emma Rhatigan
    English
    Early modern religious writing, sermons, John Donne

  • Dr Tom Rutter
    English
    Early modern drama, playing companies, science

  • Dr James Shaw
    History
    Early Modern Italy, markets, law, ethics

  • Dr Tim Shephard
    Music
    Renaissance, the Italian courts from c. 1430 to 1530

  • Professor Robert Shoemaker
    History
    British social and cultural history, crime and punishment, London

  • Professor Cathy Shrank
    English
    Early Modern Literature, dialogue, sonnets, humanism

  • Dr Richard Steadman-Jones
    English
    Colonial culture, exile narratives, linguistic ideas, arts practice

  • Dr Charlotte Steenbrugge
    English
    Early modern theatre, Dutch and French drama, non-dramatic medieval literature

  • Dr Crosby Stevens
    History
    Site-specific theatre, material culture, country houses

  • Dr Graham T Williams
    English
    (Im)politeness and pragmatics, English letters, digital corpora

  • Dr Sean M Williams
    SLC, German
    Hairdressing, print culture, literature and philosophy

  • Dr Hugh B Willmott
    Archaeology
    Later medieval and early modern European archaeology

  • Dr Mabel Winter
    History
    AHRC Research Associate, ‘The Politics of the English Grain Trade, 1314-1815'

  • Professor Phil Withington
    History
    Intoxicants and intoxication, early modern political culture

  • Dr Jan Woudstra
    Landscape History
    Anglo-Dutch interactions, theories of landscape, pre-modern China

  • Dr Angela Wright
    English
    Romanticism, gothic, 18th c. literature, translation, women’s writing