English Literature BA(Hons): Who teaches this course

Find out more here about the Faculty or School where you will be taught and about some of the key teaching staff for this course. 

English Literature staff at Kingston include:

Dr Matthew Birchwood

Matthew teaches Shakespeare and other Renaissance literature and drama. His research interests include:

• early modern drama and polemic; and
• English engagement with Islam in the period.

Dr Brycchan Carey

Brycchan's research interests are literature, empire and slavery in the 18th century. He teaches:

• 18th century literature;
• Romanticism;
• literary London; and
• the literature of empire.

Professor Norma Clarke

Norma teaches 18th century and Romantic literature, poetry and children's fiction. Her research interest is in cultural authority and the female writer.

Dr Meg Jensen

Meg's research is on influence and intertextuality among British writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. She teaches:

• 19th and 20th century British fiction;
• creative writing; and
• critical theory.

Dr Jane Jordan

Jane teaches 19th and 20th century British literature, especially women writers. Her research is on literature and history, especially the legal status of British women in the 19th century.

Dr Erica Longfellow

Erica teaches early-modern literature, including Shakespeare and women's writing. Her research covers:

• 17th century women's writing and religious writing; and
• women's reading practices.

Dr David Rogers

David's research centres on the novelist William Faulkner and discourses of the perverse. He teaches:

• 19th century English and American literature; and
• 20th century American fiction and poetry.

Dr Anne Rowe

Anne teaches 19th and 20th century literature, academic writing and research skills. Her research centres on the relationship between literature and the visual arts.

Dr Andrew Teverson

Andrew is Director of Studies for English Literature and Creative Writing. He teaches 20th and 21st century world writing in English, Renaissance studies and folklore. He has conducted research on:

• Salman Rushdie;
• colonial/postcolonial writing; and
• the fairy tale.

Dr Sara Upstone

Sara's research focuses on spatiality and identity in contemporary fiction. She teaches:

• 19th century American literature;
• 20th century British and postcolonial fiction; and
• black British and British Asian literature and media.

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