Staff List

Departments

Dr Angela Wright has published on many aspects of Gothic literature in the 1790sand 1800s. She is currently working on a book on the relationship between vision and imprisonment in the Gothic novel.
Dr Hamish Mathison is completing a monograph on the poetry of Robert Burns, and developing a study of the Scottish newspaper from c.1650-1800.
Dr Anna Barton is an expert on Tennyson and other nineteenth-century poets.
Prof Neil Roberts has published on George Eliot and George Meredith, and has strong interests in narrative theory, particularly Bakhtin, aswell as in poetry.
Dr Shirley Foster has published on English and American literature, including books on the Victorian novel, travel writing, and fiction for girls. Other interests include colonial theory and feminism.
Dr Jane Hodson works on theories and practices of language in the French Revolution debate, and on the role of gender in the political writing of the 1790s. She has recently published on Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin.
Dr Helena Ifill works on Victorian literature and science writing, sensation fiction and the nineteenth-century periodical press.
Dr Christine Poulson has research interests in nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century British visual arts and literature.

Dr Timothy Baycroft researches and publishes on identity and nationalism in modern Europe, and modern France in particular.
Dr Clare Griffiths works on the political and cultural history of nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain, the history of the Labour movement, and the social history of rural Britain.
Dr Karen Harvey publishes on early nineteenth-century social and domestic history.
Dr Andrew Heath publishes on nineteenth-century American urban history.
Dr Mark Lawrence works on nineteenth-century Spanish history.
Dr Julia Moses works on political history in Britain, Germany and Italy, with special interests in social problems and policy, labour, marriage and the family, the law and governmental bureaucracy.

Prof Michael Perraudin has published on a range of nineteenth-century German authors, including Kleist, Eichendorff, Heine, Nestroy, Mörike, Grillparzer, Gotthelf and Storm. He has particular interests in the links between literature and social politics in the decades before 1848.
Dr Caroline Bland is an expert on late-nineteenth century German realist writing, with a particular emphasis on women's writing and its social backgrounds

Dr Rhian Davies has published on the nineteenth-century Spanish review La España Moderna and the major author Benito Pérez Galdós. She is particularly interested in nineteenth-century Spanish literature and the role of the press during the fin de siglo.
Dr Geraldine Lawless has published on literary modernity, women's writing, and science fiction in nineteenth-century Spain. Her recent monograph looks at the stories of Antonio Ros de Olano and Leopold Alas, Clarín, and she is currently researching the representation of the future in Spanish writing of the period.

Dr Helen Abbott specialises in French poetry and music 1850-1950, and has published on a range of authors and composers including Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, and Debussy.
Dr Maxime Goergen's research focuses on the links between literature, cultural history and politics in the first part of the 19th century, with particular emphasis on the works of Balzac.

Prof Robert Stern publishes on nineteenth-century German philosophy, with particular interest in Hegel.

Dr Malcolm Jones works and publishes on nineteenth-century folklore and popular language.

Professor Peter Blundell Jones publishes on late nineteenth-century architecture, with particular interests in figures associated with William Morris.