Academic officers and staff
Find academics by their role within the School, or by subject area.
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 BST.
Please email us in the first instance, and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.
The following details are correct for Semester 1 of Academic Year 2022 to 2023:
| Title | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Head of Asian Studies | Dr Daniel Hammond | Daniel.Hammond@ed.ac.uk |
| Head of Celtic and Scottish Studies | Dr Neill Martin | neill.martin@ed.ac.uk |
| Head of the Department of European Languages and Cultures | E.Martin@ed.ac.uk | |
| Head of English Literature | Dr Alex Thomson | alex.thomson@ed.ac.uk |
| Head of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies | Ines.Asceric-Todd@ed.ac.uk |
| Centre | Name | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alwaleed Centre General Manager | Tom Lea | +44 (0)131 650 6686 | tom.lea@ed.ac.uk |
| Alwaleed Outreach and Projects Coordinator | Nadin Akta | +44 (0)131 650 4165 | nadin.akta@ed.ac.uk |
| Confucius Institute General Manager | Wendy (Siwei Liu) Green | +44 (0)131 662 2184 | wendy.green@ed.ac.uk |
| Confucius Institute Partnership Manager | Jie Chen | +44 (0)131 662 2182 | jie.chen@ed.ac.uk |
| Confucius Institute Operations and Marketing Officer | Xin Zhang | +44 (0)131 662 2180 | |
| Confucius Institute Assistant Administrator | Calum Gibb | +44 (0)131 662 2180 | |
| Dashkova Centre |
|
dashkova.centre@ed.ac.uk |
| Title | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Director of Learning and Teaching (Undergraduate and Postgraduate) | Dr Chris Perkins | chris.perkins@ed.ac.uk |
| Postgraduate Research Director | Dr David Sorfa | david.sorfa@ed.ac.uk |
| Senior Tutor | Dr Iona Macintyre | Iona.Macintyre@ed.ac.uk |
| Director of Research | Professor Greg Walker | |
| Academic Misconduct Officer | Dr Séverine Genieys-Kirk | s.g.kirk@ed.ac.uk |
| Ethics Officer | Dr Mark McLeister | mark.mcleister@ed.ac.uk |
| Director of People & Equalities | Dr Ben Bateman | benjamin.bateman@ed.ac.uk |
| Director of Quality and Convenor of School QAE Committee | Dr Katherine Inglis | k.inglis@ed.ac.uk |
| Director of Outreach and Widening Participation | Annette Götzkes | a.gotzkes@ed.ac.uk |
| Senior Disability Coordinator | Dr Neill Martin | neill.martin@ed.ac.uk |
| Library Committee Representative | Dr Alan MacNiven | alan.macniven@ed.ac.uk |
| Knowledge Exchange & Impact Director |
Dr Hephzibah Israel |
H.Israel@ed.ac.uk |
The following details are correct for Semester 1 of Academic Year 2022 to 2023:
| Title | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Asian Studies DPGRD | Professor Natascha Gentz | Natascha.Gentz@ed.ac.uk |
| Celtic & Scottish Studies DPGRD | Professor Rob Dunbar | Rob.Dunbar@ed.ac.uk |
| European Languages & Cultures DPGRD |
Dr Jessica Gordon-Burroughs |
j.gordonburroughs@ed.ac.uk |
| English Literature DPGRD (PhD) | Professor Andrew Taylor | Andrew.Taylor@ed.ac.uk |
| English Literature DPGRD (MScR) | Professor Michelle Keown | Michelle.Keown@ed.ac.uk |
| Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies DPGRD | Dr Anthony Gorman | Anthony.Gorman@ed.ac.uk |
The following details are correct for Academic Year 2021 to 2022:
| Title | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| MSc Comparative Literature | Dr Frauke Matthes | Frauke.Matthes@ed.ac.uk |
| MSc Creative Writing | Dr Jane Alexander | Jane.Alexander@ed.ac.uk |
| MSc East Asian Relations | Dr Daniel Hammond | Daniel.Hammond@ed.ac.uk |
| MSc Film, Exhibition & Curation | Susan Kemp (Co-Director) | S.A.Kemp@ed.ac.uk |
| Jane Sillars (Co-Director) | Jane.Sillars@ed.ac.uk | |
| MSc Film Studies | Dr David Sorfa | David.Sorfa@ed.ac.uk |
| MSc Globalised Muslim World | Dr Frédéric Volpi | Frederic.Volpi@ed.ac.uk |
| MSc Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies |
Dr Ebtihal Mahadeen (Semester 1) |
Ebtihal.Mahadeen@ed.ac.uk |
| Dr Andreas Görke (Semester 2) | A.Goerke@ed.ac.uk | |
| MSc Korean Studies | Dr Youngmi Kim | Youngmi.Kim@ed.ac.uk |
| MSc Literature & Modernity | Dr Tim Milnes | Tim.Milnes@ed.ac.uk |
| MSc Literature & Society | Dr Bob Irvine | R.P.Irvine@ed.ac.uk |
| MSc Translation Studies | Dr Şebnem Susam-Saraeva | S.Susam-Saraeva@ed.ac.uk |
Browse staff by subject area
Asian Studies - includes Chinese, Japanese, Korean and East Asian
Celtic and Scottish Studies - includes Celtic, Scottish Ethnology and Scottish Studies
English and Scottish Literature - includes Playwriting and Creative Writing
European Languages and Cultures - includes Comparative Literature, European Theatre and Medieval Studies
Film and Intermediality- includes Film Studies, Film, Exhibition and Curation, and Intermediality
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies - includes Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Islamic Studies and Middle Eastern Studies