English and Scottish Literature

Staff

Get to know the team in English Literature.

Many of us work on a hybrid basis - a mixture of on-campus and digitally.

Our working hours are Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm (UK time).

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Head of English Literature

Name (sorted in ascending order) Role Email Phone number
Suzanne Trill Head of English and Scottish Literature S.Trill@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 4291

Academic staff

Name (sorted in ascending order) Role Email Phone number
Peter Adkins Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow peter.adkins@ed.ac.uk
Dr Beatrice Alex Senior Lecturer and Chancellor's Fellow in Text Mining balex@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 6508988
Dr Jane Alexander Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing jane.alexander@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 651 7112
Dr Marie Allitt Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow in Twentieth Century Literature marie.allitt@ed.ac.uk
Kate Ash-Irisarri Lecturer in Late Medieval Scottish & English Literature k.ash-irisarri@ed.ac.uk 0131 651 1294
Benjamin Bateman Senior Lecturer in Post-1900 British Literature benjamin.bateman@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 4288
Dr Sourit Bhattacharya Lecturer in Global Anglophone Literatures sourit.bhattacharya@ed.ac.uk 0131 650 3611
Hannah Boast Chancellor's Fellow hannah.boast@ed.ac.uk
Dermot Cavanagh Senior Lecturer Dermot.Cavanagh@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 3606
Dr Lynda Clark Lecturer in Creative Writing (Interdisciplinary Futures) lynda.clark@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 4166
Simon Cooke Senior Lecturer Simon.Cooke@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 651 3996
Paul Crosthwaite Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature Paul.Crosthwaite@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 3614
Sarah Dunnigan Senior Lecturer S.M.Dunnigan@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 8304
Dr Patrick Errington Lecturer p.errington@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)1316504025
David Farrier Professor of Literature and the Environment David.Farrier@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 3607
Penny Fielding Grierson Professor of English Literature Penny.Fielding@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 3609
Alexander Freer Lecturer in Romanticism alex.freer@ed.ac.uk
Miriam Gamble Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing mgamble@staffmail.ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 4285
Alan Gillis Professor of Modern Poetry Alan.Gillis@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 3050
Anna Girling Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow in Twentieth-Century Literature Anna.Girling@ed.ac.uk
Owen Holland Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature owen.holland@ed.ac.uk
Keith Hughes Lecturer Keith.Hughes@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 3048
Katherine Inglis Chancellor's Fellow - Senior Lecturer K.Inglis@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 3617
Robert Irvine Reader in Scottish Literature R.P.Irvine@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 3605
Dr Carole Jones Senior Lecturer Carole.Jones@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 3068
Aaron Kelly Senior Lecturer Aaron.Kelly@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 3071
Michelle Keown Professor of Pacific and Postcolonial Literature Michelle.Keown@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 6856
Anouk Lang Senior Lecturer anouk.lang@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 8936
Alexandra Lawrie Senior Lecturer Alex.Lawrie@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 8968
James Loxley Professor of Early Modern Literature James.Loxley@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 3610
Simon Malpas Senior Lecturer Simon.Malpas@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 3596
Nicola McCartney Nicola.McCartney@ed.ac.uk
Gerard McKeever Lecturer in Modern Scottish Literature gerard.mckeever@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 651 1236
Jane McKie Senior Lecturer Jane.McKie@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 3899
Timothy Milnes Professor of Romantic Literature and Philosophy Tim.Milnes@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 3615
Dr Terri Ochiagha Lecturer in Global Anglophone Literatures t.ochiagha@ed.ac.uk
Désha A Osborne Chancellor's Fellow Desha.Osborne@ed.ac.uk
Maddy Potter Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow in the Long Nineteenth Century (Romanticism/Victorianism) madeline.potter@ed.ac.uk
Eoin Price Lecturer in English Literature, 1500-1650 eoin.price@ed.ac.uk
David Salter Lecturer David.Salter@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 3055
Martin Schauss Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow mschauss@ed.ac.uk
Kim Sherwood Lecturer in Creative Writing Kim.Sherwood@ed.ac.uk
Dr Hannah Simpson Lecturer in Drama and Performance; LLC Deputy Director of Learning and Teaching; LLC QAE Director h.e.a.simpson@ed.ac.uk
Lee Spinks Senior Lecturer Lee.Spinks@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 3616
Allyson Stack Senior Lecturer Allyson.Stack@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 4290
Andrew Taylor Senior Lecturer Andrew.Taylor@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 4584
Alice Thompson Lecturer Alice.Thompson@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 4535
Alex Thomson Professor of Modern Literature and Critical Theory Alex.Thomson@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 3058
Rebecca Tierney-Hynes Senior Lecturer r.tierneyhynes@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 8410
Alberto Tondello Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (UKRI Funded) alberto.tondello@ed.ac.uk
Suzanne Trill Head of English and Scottish Literature S.Trill@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 4291
Anna Vaninskaya Senior Lecturer Anna.Vaninskaya@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 4284
Greg Walker Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature Greg.Walker@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 3049
Dr Annie Webster Leverhulme Early Career Fellow annie.webster@ed.ac.uk
Dr Alice Wickenden Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow in Early Modern Literature alice.wickenden@ed.ac.uk
Jonathan Wild Senior Lecturer JWild@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 651 3191

Emeritus Professors and Honorary Fellows

Name (sorted in ascending order) Role Email
Ian Campbell Honorary Fellow Ian.Campbell@ed.ac.uk
Sarah Carpenter Honorary Fellow Sarah.Carpenter@ed.ac.uk
Peter Garside Honorary Fellow Peter.Garside@ed.ac.uk
Roger Savage Honorary Fellow Roger.Savage@ed.ac.uk
Randall Stevenson Emeritus Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature Randall.Stevenson@ed.ac.uk
Olga Taxidou Professor Emerita of Drama and Performance Studies Olga.Taxidou@ed.ac.uk
Karina Williamson McIntosh Honorary Fellow Karina.Williamson@ed.ac.uk