Research Directory
The research directory forms part of the Centre's role as a hub that connects researchers working in the contemporary and modern periods across the university. Home departments, research interests and linked profiles with contact information are provided for ease of making connections for collaborative research projects. Staff and student departmental research profiles are linked where available. The Centre's mailing list can also be used to make contact with other modern and contemporary scholars at the university.
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Research Directory - Staff
| Name (Department) | Research interests |
|---|---|
| Nicoletta Asciuto (English and Related Literature) | Modernism; poetry & poetics; history of technology; translation studies. |
| Clare Bielby (Centre for Women's Studies) | Terrorism; violence; affect; history of feminisms; queer studies and feminist queer theory. |
| Ana Bilbao (History of Art) | Contemporary art from the Global South; histories of exhibition-making; decolonial pedagogies; extractivism; links between visual culture, human, and environmental rights. |
| Ed Braman (TFTI) | Creative industries; film and television; modern American literature. |
| Sabine Clarke (History) | History of science; technology and medicine; empire and development; environment. |
| David Clayton (History) | Economic history; history of technology, especially radio broadcasting; water supplies; Hong Kong; Britain. |
| Matt Coward-Gibbs (Sociology) | Pleasure and leisure; death and dying; culture and community; deviance and transgression. |
| Vicki Dabrowski (Sociology) | Social inequalities; social justice; gender and class theory; the State. |
| Gina Denton (History) | Modern US history; histories of social protest; race and gender history. |
| Jason Edwards (History of Art) | Art of the British empire; queer theory, especially Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick; vegan theory; complex systems theory; Victorian photography; Victorian and modernist sculpture. |
| John Evemy (Politics) | Contemporary immigration and economic policy in the UK. |
| Matthew Festenstein (Politics) | 20th century political thought; contemporary political theory. |
| Harald Fredheim (Archaeology) | Museum studies; critical heritage studies; public archaeology; nature-cultures. |
| Alice Hall (Englsh and Related Literature) | Modern and contemporary British and American literature; theories of embodiment; disability; gender; care; medical humanities. |
| Marta Herrero (TFTI) | Arts charities; women's philanthropy in the art world; non-profit fundraising; art market studies. |
| Mark Hutchinson (Music) | Analysis of post-1980s concert music; overlaps between music, literature and philosophy; musical borrowing, quotation and intertextuality. |
| Alexandra Kingston-Reese (English and Related Literature) | Affect; contemporary literature; politics. |
| Juliana Mensah (English and Related Literature) | Contemporary literature; practice-led; Africa and diaspora; human rights and social justice. |
| Alfred Moore (Politics) | Contemporary democratic theory; modern political thought; politics of expertise. |
| Colleen Morgan (Archaeology) | The archaeology of digital things; avatars; cyborgs; robots. |
| Jenna Ng (TFTI) | Digital visual culture; algorithmic culture; East Asian cinema; interactive media and storytelling. |
| Tom O'Brien (Sociology) | Social movements; democratisation; environmental sociology; political leadership. |
| Benjamin Poore (TFTI) | Post-war and contemporary British playwriting; histories and dramaturgies of the history play; cultural afterlives of the Victorians in the modern era; adaptation for stage and screen. |
| Karen Quigley (TFTI) | 20th/21st century theatre and performance; impossibility and unstageability; voice and music in contemporary theatre. |
| Hannah Roche (English and Related Literature) | Queer literature and cultural history; transatlantic modernism; expatriate identity; the politics of genre. |
| Ayshka Sené (Sociology) | History and memory of the Second World War in France and Britain; national identity and belonging in France; oral history theory and practice. |
| Anna Strhan (Sociology) | Religion; secularism; ethics; childhood; cities. |
| Dimitrios Stroikos (Politics) | China, India and global order; international society and history; global governance and technology. |
| Frances Thirlway (Sociology) | Class & culture especially working-class cultural production; tobacco and nicotine use and cessation, especially in relation to class and power. |
| Dominic Watt (Language and Linguistic Science) | Forensic linguistics and phonetics; sociophonetics; speech perception; language and identity studies; dialectology. |
| Michael White (History of Art) | Modernist art and architecture; theory of the avant-garde; the legacies of the European avant-gardes. |
| Judith Woolf (English and Related Literature) | 20th century Italian-Jewish writers, especially Primo Levi; life writing, especially in relation to the Holocaust; and narrative patterns in European literature. |
Research Directory - PGRs
| Name (Department) | Research interests |
|---|---|
| Rhian Addison (History of Art) | Landscape Artists' Studios in London, 1780–1850. |
| Anna Bailie (Politics) | Mental Health Politics. |
| Susie Beckham (History of Art) | Pre-Raphaelite art and criticism. |
| Martin Brook (History of Art) | Collection and Reception of Modern Art c.1890-1950. |
| Emma Bryning (Archaeology) | Historic and contemporary graffiti; community engagement and public participation with heritage and historic sites; the intersection of contemporary art and heritage; feminist art history/histories; performance art. |
| Pam Chapman (History of Art/ Sociology) | Urban Studies. |
| Helena Cox (History of Art) | Intercultural 1900s; Czech/Bohemian art around 1900; international Pre-Raphaelitism; British Victorian art; Japanese art - Meiji period; Japonisme; Central and Eastern European art & culture. |
| Francesca Curtis (History of Art) | Contemporary art; blue humanities; ecology. |
| Kathryn Davies (History of Art) | Victorian Gothic Revival; 19th-20th century art historiography; iconographic studies; 19th and early 20th century women art writers. |
| Emre Deniz (Education) | Autism; neurodevelopmental conditions; sibling relationships. |
| Pelin Derinalp (Education) | TESOL; ELT; continuous professional development; reflective practice; academic skills; English for academic purposes. |
| Caitlin Doley (History of Art) | The intersection of art and old age in the 19th century; medical humanities; historiography. |
| Thomas William Dowling (Philosophy) | German Idealism (post-Kantianism); critical theory; Hegel; Western Marxism. |
| Hongyuan Du (Politics) | Governance; regulation; public policy; food safety; digital economy. |
| Giorgia Garilli (English and Related Literature) | Contemporary fiction; life-writing; self-care; medical humanities; literature and mental health. |
| Joseph Gascoigne (History) | Political corruption and partisanship in postcolonial Antigua and Barbuda, 1981-2021. |
| Xiao Ge (Centre for Women's Studies) | Feminism; gender; family/intimate relations; reproductive health; China. |
| Izabella Gill-Brown (History of Art) | Material cultures; feminist and postcolonial criticisms of the long 19th century; conservation of fine art. |
| Eliza Goodpasture (History of Art) | Victorian art; British modernism; female friendship; gender and sexuality in British art. |
| Isaac Grief (Politics) | Peacebuilding; contemporary statebuilding; Kosovo; Serbia. |
| Rhiannon Griffiths (Centre for Applied Human Rights) | Asia-Pacific War 1931-1945; post-war Japan; transitional justice in East Asia; society and memory in Japan. |
| Alexandra Gushurst-Moore (History of Art) | Fantasy and the fantastic; Pre-Raphaelitism; interdisciplinary literature and visual art studies. |
| Abigail Jubb (History of Art) | Fashion in art history; fashion and sustainability; design theory and practice-led research methods. |
| Adriana Murad Konings (English and Related Literature) | Contemporary literature; literature of suspicion; post-45 transatlantic novel. |
| Francesca Lewis (Centre for Women's Studies) | Medical humanities; phenomenology; affect theory; Queer/Feminist/Crip approaches; creative methodology; memoir and autography; new materialism; mysticism. |
| Leena Lindell (History) | History of technology; history of economy; social network analysis; transnational lives; biography; life writing; engineering; 1930s China; Shanghai; Hong Kong. |
| Freyja A McCreery (TFTI) | Models of self; the internet; digital subjectivity; anxiety; affect studies; empathy; posthumanisms; time; memory. |
| Clau Nader (TFTI) | Immersive sound design for media (Film, TV, theatre, installations); binaural sound; media studies; ASMR; mental health; social justice; psychosocial interventions; arts and health. |
| Emma Nuding (Centre for Medieval Studies/English and Related Literature) | Reception of medieval language and literature in 19th-20th century texts. |
| Ozge Onay (Sociology) | Classical and contemporary sociology. |
| Aurèlia Puigdomènech (Centre for Women's Studies) | Feminimity in contemporary non-devotional images of the Virgin Mary. |
| Callum Reilly (Archaeology) | Modern landscapes; housing and social reform; commemoration; the archaeology of poverty. |
| Giulia Schirripa (History of Art) | 20th century Italian art. |
| Zaynab Seedat (English and Related Literature) | Contemporary literature; Muslim writing; South Asia; Britain; terrorism; radicalisation; ISIS. |
| Leah Tharpe (History of Art) | Frontier Landscapes across Australia, New Zealand, and the American West. |
| Wiktoria Tunska (English and Related Literature) | Affect studies; contemporary literature; critical and cultural theory; Brexit. |