English Literature MA: Who teaches this course

• Staff teaching on this course

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences teaches this course. Students benefit from a lively study environment, thanks to the wide range of postgraduate courses on offer.

Programmes cover everything from English literature and music to human rights and politics.

The Faculty provides a vibrant and forward-thinking environment for study with:

• courses designed in collaboration with industry professionals – keeping you up to date with the latest developments;
• established connections with the London arts and media scene – with a range of guest speakers, professors and lecturers visiting the University; and
• committed and enthusiastic staff – many of whom are expert practitioners as well as leading academics and researchers.

The Faculty's combination of academics and practitioners makes it a unique environment in which to further your studies and your career.

Where is the Faculty based? Most students are based at the University's Penrhyn Road campus, with our music and education courses taught at the Kingston Hill campus.

Dr Matthew Birchwood

Title: Lecturer

Specialist subjects:

Early modern literature, drama and polemic, particularly in relation to English engagement with Islam in the period. 

Recent publications:

• Staging Islam:Drama and Culture 1640-1685 (Boydell & Brewer, 2007)
• Cultural Encounters Between East and West:1453-1699, ed. with Matthew Dimmock (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2005)

Dr Brycchan Carey

Title: Reader in English Literature
Email: b.carey@kingston.ac.uk 

Specialist subjects: The literature and culture of the long eighteenth century, in particular, writing about empire, slavery, and the slave trade, voyaging and exploration, and the cultures of science. Read more.

Recent publications:

• Slavery and the Cultures of Abolition: Essays Marking the British Abolition Act of 1807 (Essays and Studies in Romanticism Series, 2007), edited by Brycchan Carey and Peter Kitson (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2007)
• British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility: Writing, Sentiment, and Slavery, 1760-1807 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)

Professor Norma Clarke

Professor Norma Clarke is not only a renowned scholar of 18th century literature, but also the author of a series of children's novels. Her expertise in the study of literature and her professional life as an author will form a key part of the teaching of this course.

Dr Martin Dines

Title: Lecturer
Email: m.dines@kingston.ac.uk 

Specialist subjects:

• Twentieth Century British and American literature
• Suburbia, fiction and culture
• Gay and lesbian studies
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Recent publications:

• Gay Suburban Narratives in American Literature and Culture: Homecoming Queens (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)

 

Professor Vesna Goldsworthy

Professor Vesna Goldsworthy is the author of Inventing Ruritania, a groundbreaking study of representations of the Balkans, and the widely acclaimed Chernobyl Strawberries – A Memoir. Vesna has a background in the study of travel writing, 20th century fiction and popular culture.

Dr Jane Jordan

Dr Jane Jordan is a specialist in Victorian writing and the author of biographies on Josephine Butler and Kittie O'Shea. Jane teaches the study of biography and draws on her knowledge of Victorian popular culture. 

Dr Erica Longfellow

Title: Senior Lecturer
Email: e.longfellow@kingston.ac.uk 

Specialist subjects:

• Early modern literature, particularly women's writing, religious writing, and life writing
• Detective fiction
• Recent trends in critical theory
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Recent publications:

• 'Public, Private and the Household in Early Seventeenth-Century England', Journal of British Studies, April 2006
• Women and Religious Writing in Early Modern England (CUP, 2004)

Simon Morgan Wortham

Professor Simon Morgan Wortham is co-director of the London Graduate School. His recent books include Counter-Institutions: Jacques Derrida and the Question of the University; Derrida: Writing Events and The Derrida Dictionary. He is currently writing a book provisionally titled The Poetics of Sleep.

Dr Anne Rowe

Title: Senior Lecturer, Director of the Centre for Iris Murdoch Studies
Email: a.rowe@kingston.ac.uk 

Specialist subjects:

• The life and work of Iris Murdoch
• Contemporary British fiction, particularly the work of Ian McEwan, Zadie Smith and Sebastian Faulks
• Writing and research skills

Recent publications:

• Iris Murdoch: A Reassessment (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006)
• Editor of the Iris Murdoch Review

Dr Andrew Teverson

Title: Lecturer
Email: a.teverson@kingston.ac.uk

Specialist subjects:

• Post-Colonial literature
• World writing in English
• Diasporic writing in English
• Contemporary British literature
• Folk-narrative and fairy tale studies

Recent publications:

• Salman Rushdie, Contemporary World Writers, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007)
• 'Salman Rushdie and Fairy Tale,' The Fairy Tale in Contemporary Literature, ed. Stephen Benson (Michigan: Wayne State University Press, 2008) [Forthcoming January 2008] 

Dr Sara Upstone

Title: Lecturer
Email: s.upstone@kingston.ac.uk 

Specialist subjects:

• Postcolonial literature
• Contemporary British fiction
• Black British and British Asian writing
• Literary theory
• Spatial politics

Recent publications:

• ' "Same Old, Same Old": Zadie Smith's White Teeth and Monica Ali's Brick Lane', Journal of Postcolonial Writing Nov 2007
• 'Negotiations of London as Imperial Urban Space in the Contemporary Postcolonial Novel' in Christoph Lindner, ed. Urban Space and Cityscapes: Perspectives from Modern and Contemporary Culture (London and New York: Routledge, 2006)